AMPLITUDE-BASED METHOD FOR RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING AND RADIO DIRECTION-FINDER FOR IMPLEMENTATION THEREOF Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G01S3/28 

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: method includes receiving a radio signal with M antennae which are identical and directional and form an equidistant ring antenna array, wherein the number M of the antennae used is selected using the formula M=4l+2, where l=1, 2, 3, … - positive integers not equal to zero. The antennae are also made with an aperture angle on the -3 dB level which is not less than the angle between axial lines of adjacent antennae of the antenna array. The amplitude U_m of signals is measured and the azimuth $$\stackrel{⌢}{\theta }$$ of the radio signal source is estimated. The radio direction-finder has M antennae, a radio receiving unit, an azimuth computer and a clock pulse generator. The azimuth $$\stackrel{⌢}{\theta }$$ computer is configured to calculate a function of the type $$\stackrel{⌢}{\theta }=arctg\frac{{\displaystyle \sum _{m=1}^M{U}_m\sin {\alpha }_m}}{{\displaystyle \sum _{m=1}^M{U}_m\cos {\alpha }_m}},$$ where U_m is the amplitude of the signal received by the m-th antenna; α_m is the angle between the axial line of the m-th antenna and the axial line of the antenna array; m=1, 2, …, M.

EFFECT: high accuracy of direction-finding and simple design of the radio direction-finder.

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