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    Doppler VOR beacons use two elevated antennas that continuously blend signals to sweep the effective phase center around in a circle, providing continuous navigation variable signals. This design complicates issues like coupling between antennas. DVOR stations monitor themselves and will shut down if the bearing accuracy exceeds 1 degree. DVORs are more accurate than conventional VORs because they are less susceptible to reflections that can cause errors.

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    Doppler VOR beacons use two elevated antennas that continuously blend signals to sweep the effective phase center around in a circle, providing continuous navigation variable signals. This design complicates issues like coupling between antennas. DVOR stations monitor themselves and will shut down if the bearing accuracy exceeds 1 degree. DVORs are more accurate than conventional VORs because they are less susceptible to reflections that can cause errors.

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    DAR ES SALAAM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

    DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS


    ENGINEERING

    CLASS ASSIGNMENT 1

    CLASS: B.ENG11T

    STUDENT: ISSA JUMANNE 100602G8400

    MODULE: NAVIGATION AND SURVEYING AIDS ETU 08211

    TASK: EXPLAIN THE DOPPLER VISUAL OMNI RANGEE (DVOR)

    Doppler VOR beacons utilize an elevated ground plane that is used to elevate the effective
    antenna pattern. It creates a strong lobe at an elevation angle of 30° which complements the 0°
    lobe of the antennas themselves. This ground plane is called a counterpoise. The edge of the
    counterpoise can absorb and re-radiate signals from the antennas, and it may tend to do this
    differently in some directions than others.
    The Doppler signal encodes the station identifier, optional voice, and navigation variable signal
    in an isotropic (i.e. omnidirectional) component. The navigation variable signal is A3 modulated
    (gray scale). The navigation reference signal is delayed by electrically revolving a pair of
    transmitters.

    Blending in DVOR
    Blending is the process by which a sideband signal is switched from one antenna to the next. The
    switching is not discontinuous. The amplitude of the next antenna rises as the amplitude of the
    current antenna falls. When one antenna reaches its peak amplitude, the next and previous
    antennas have zero amplitude.
    By radiating from two antennas, the effective phase center becomes a point between the two.
    Thus the phase reference is swept continuously around the ring – not stepped as would be the
    case with antenna to antenna discontinuous switching.
    But blending accentuates another complication of a DVOR. Blending complicates the coupling
    effect. It does this because when two adjacent antennas radiate a signal, they create a composite
    antenna.
    Each antenna in a DVOR uses an omnidirectional antenna. Unfortunately, the sideband antennas
    are very close together, so that approximately 55% of the energy radiated is absorbed by the
    adjacent antennas. Half of that is re-radiated, and half is sent back along the antenna feeds of the
    adjacent antennas. The result is an antenna pattern that is no longer omnidirectional.
    DVOR designs use all sorts of mechanisms to try to compensate these effects.

    Accuracy and reliability


    Compared to other VORs, a Doppler VOR beacon will typically change-over or shutdown when
    the bearing accuracy exceeds 1.0°. National air space authorities may often set tighter limits.
    The predictable accuracy of the VOR system is ±1.4°. However, test data indicate that 99.94% of
    the time a VOR system has less than ±0.35° of error.
    Internal monitoring of a VOR station will shut it down, or change-over to a Standby system if the
    station error exceeds some limit.

    VOR beacons monitor themselves by having one or more receiving antennas located away from
    the beacon. The signals from these antennas are processed to monitor many aspects of the
    signals.
    The five main parameters monitored are;
    The bearing accuracy
    The reference
    Variable signal modulation indices
    The signal level
    The presence of notches caused by individual antenna failures

    The signals received by these antennas, in a Doppler VOR beacon, are different from the signals
    received by an aircraft. This is because
    The antennas are close to the transmitter
    They are affected by proximity effects.
    For a distant aircraft there will be no measurable difference. Similarly the peak rate of phase
    change seen by a receiver is from the tangential antennas. For the aircraft these tangential paths
    will be almost parallel, but this is not the case for an antenna near the DVOR.

    Advantage
    Doppler VOR beacons are inherently more accurate than Conventional VOR (COVR) because
    they are more immune to reflections from hills and buildings.

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