Joseph P Mustard

US Patent:

6577268, Jun 10, 2003

Filed:

Jun 20, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/176295

Inventors:

Joseph P. Mustard - Chesapeake VA
Diem-Trang T. Le - Virginia Beach VA

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy - Washington DC

International Classification:

H01Q 300

US Classification:

342174, 342165, 342173, 342360, 342195, 343703, 343709, 343710

Abstract:

The present invention provides an outboard test facility that is operable for testing a ships direction finding antenna system in all directions as the ship circles while receiving test signals from the outboard test facility. The test facility provides a computer control operable for monitoring and storing signal power produced by any selected patch interconnections between a plurality of antennas, a plurality of radio frequency amplifiers and a plurality of signal generators at the outboard test facility. The computer control permits a single operator to monitor a signal analyzer to determine the optimum signal power for each of a list of signal frequencies to be broadcast to the ship based on the selected patch interconnection.