Alexander V. Ashikhmin¹, Alexander V. Ivanov², Yuri G. Pasternak³, Pavel V. Pershin4, Sergey M. Fedorov5 1  Voronezh Branch of IRCOS JSC (Voronezh, Russia) 1, 3, 4

 IRCOS JSC (Moscow, Russia) 2, 3

 MERC of Air Force «Air Force Academy named alter professor N.E. Zhukovsky and Y.A. Gagarin» (Voronezh, Russia) 3, 5

 Voronezh State Technical University (Voronezh, Russia) 1,2,3,4

This article proposes a method for forming a "virtual" antenna array of magnetic vibrators based on the evaluation of all projections of the electric field intensity vector using a vector antenna made of electric dipoles. The idea of the method is to measure the electrical components of an incident electromagnetic wave in the edges of cubes (vector antenna elements) using simple symmetrical electric vibrators. In this case, the measured electric field strongly distorted by the carrier is converted into a magnetic field that is significantly less distorted.

The proposed method is invariant to the type of polarization, a priori unknown, and it can be any when placing a direction finder on an aircraft.

To increase the accuracy of bearing when using a vector antenna element as part of a correlation-interferometric direction finder, it is necessary to increase the number of vector antenna elements relative to the variant considered in this paper.

Despite the obvious advantages of the proposed method, it has an obvious drawback – the need for a significant (12 times) increase in the number of electric vibrators, which, in turn, leads to a significant complication of the switching scheme. However, the proposed method for calculating the bearing allows you to significantly increase the instrumental accuracy of the onboard radio direction finder.ф

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