DEVELOPMENT OF A DISCRETE ADDRESS BEACON SYSTEM

The report includes: a discussion of recent Discrete Address Beacon Systems downlink preamble and modulation studies; a review of link performance studies to assess the effects of various types of signal fades, the merits of transmitted power programming, and diversity, and to establish link performance criteria. A brief description of operational problems peculiar to the DABS/Military interface is also included. Other items detail progress made in coverage studies and in the formulation of a sensor deployment plan. Sensor design is discussed under headings of antenna studies, reply processing, interrogation management, tracker studies, and DABS use of radar data. A description of the development status of the DABS experimental facility and a review of initial direction-finding experiments performed conclude the report. (Modified author abstract)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also AD-766 601. Quarterly technical summary.
• Corporate Authors:

  Lincoln Laboratory

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Lexington, MA  United States  02173
• Publication Date: 1973-10-1

Media Info

• Pagination: 60 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Air traffic control radar beacon system; Antennas; Data communications; Detectors; Mode S; Performance; Radar air traffic control; Radar beacons; Signal processing; Transponders
• Identifier Terms: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
• Uncontrolled Terms: Data links
• Old TRIS Terms: Atcrbs air traffic control radar beacon systems; Dabs discrete address beacon systems; Faa; Performance engineering
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00051658
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Contract Numbers: DOT-FA72WAI-261
• Files: NTIS
• Created Date: Apr 5 1974 12:00AM