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  2. Spherical coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    The azimuth (or azimuthal angle) is the signed angle measured from the azimuth reference direction to the orthogonal projection of the radial line segment OP on the reference plane. The sign of the azimuth is determined by designating the rotation that is the positive sense of turning about the zenith. This choice is arbitrary, and is part of ...

  3. Radar signal characteristics - Wikipedia

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    The receiver's gain is automatically adjusted to maintain a constant level of overall visible clutter. While this does not help detect targets masked by stronger surrounding clutter, it does help to distinguish strong target sources. In the past, radar AGC was electronically controlled and affected the gain of the entire radar receiver.

  4. Phase-comparison monopulse - Wikipedia

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    This deviation angle, which can be positive or negative, is added to the beam pointing angle to arrive at the more accurate estimate of the actual target bearing angle. Of course, if the array is 2-dimensional, such as a planar array, there are two del channels, one for elevation and one for azimuth, and therefore two monopulse ratios are formed.

  5. DirecTV satellite fleet - Wikipedia

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    DirecTV-1R was launched on October 9, 1999, aboard a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL launch vehicle. It was the first satellite used to broadcast local channels for DirecTV in major DMAs , and was positioned at 101.2° W when it first entered service. [ 29 ]

  6. Bearing (navigation) - Wikipedia

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    In navigation, bearing or azimuth is the horizontal angle between the direction of an object and north or another object. The angle value can be specified in various angular units , such as degrees , mils , or grad .

  7. DirecTV fixes satellite problem that was causing outages for ...

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    The DirecTV snafu comes on the heels of an outage for AT&T mobile customers last week affecting more than 70,000 users and resulting in the company offering $5 refunds to affected customers.

  8. Omnidirectional antenna - Wikipedia

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    Although the radiation of an omnidirectional antenna is symmetrical in azimuthal directions, it may vary in a complicated way with elevation angle, having lobes and nulls at different angles. The most common omnidirectional antenna designs are the monopole antenna , consisting of a vertical rod conductor mounted over a conducting ground plane ...

  9. Direction finding - Wikipedia

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    The DF receiver enjoys a detection range advantage [35] over that of the radar receiver. This is because the signal strength at the DF receiver, due to a radar transmission, is proportional to 1/R 2 whereas that at the radar receiver from the reflected return is proportional to σ/R 4 , where R is the range and σ is the radar cross-section of ...