Method for tuning a phased array antenna

Details Method for tuning a phased array antenna Method for tuning a phased array antenna

1983-03-02

1985-05-14

Lieberman, Eli

Communications: radio wave antennas

Antennas

Balanced doublet - centerfed

H01Q 300

Patent

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045175705

ABSTRACT:
During installation or maintenance of a phased array antenna system in which the transmission line to each element includes an adjustable phase shift device, it is required that the effective electrical lengths of the lines be adjusted to be equal, or alternatively that the phase errors be determined and stored as correction data for use during normal operation. One way of doing this is to phase modulate by .+-.90.degree. the phase shift device of one element at a time, while applying a test signal to all elements. The signal is radiated by the array, received via a test antenna, and supplied to an envelope detector. If the element is out of tune, the envelope has different amplitudes at +90.degree. and -90.degree. of the modulation. The element is tuned by adjusting the length of its transmission line or the adjustment of its phase shift device to obtain a null at the amplitude detector.
In an improved technique, to reduce certain errors, sum tuning is used, in which the .+-.90.degree. phase modulation is applied to all of the phase shift devices, except for that of the element being tuned.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3357017 (1967-12-01), Jewell

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