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http://dx.doi.org/10.11003/JPNT.2021.10.3.229

The Power Amplifier Control Design of eLoran Transmitter  

Son, Pyo-Woong (Maritime Safety and Environmental Research Department, Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering)
Seo, Kiyeol (Maritime Safety and Environmental Research Department, Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering)
Fang, Tae Hyun (Maritime Safety and Environmental Research Department, Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering)
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Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing / v.10, no.3, 2021 , pp. 229-234 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, a study was conducted on the power amplifier control required to design an eLoran transmitter system using a low-height antenna. The eLoran transmitter developed during the eLoran technology development project conducted in Korea used a small 35 m antenna due to the difficulty of securing a site for antenna installation. This antenna height is very low compared to the height of 750 m which is required for eLoran 100 kHz signal transmission without any radiation loss. In the case of using such a small antenna, not only the radiation efficiency of the transmission is lowered, but also the power module control must be performed more precisely in order to transmit the eLoran standard signal. The equivalent RLC circuit of the transmitter system was implemented and transient analysis was conducted to derive the input required voltage for satisfying the output requirement. The voltage waveform was also generated by the RLC circuit analysis to generate the eLoran signal. Furthermore, we suggest power width modulation method to control eLoran power amplifier module more sophisticatedly.
Keywords
eLoran; eLoran transmitter; small eLoran antenna; PA control;
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