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US 3,942,179 AGranted
Filtered-noise jammer
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorClifford G. Dorn
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Abstract
A device for generating spot or barrage noise to jam communication equipment, missiles or radar employing a modulating noise that has the high frequencies removed. Said device comprises a filter means and an amplifier in circuit with the noise source, modulator and transmitter of a basic noise jamming device. The filtered output of said device has a non-uniform R.F. spectrum with a random noise density.
Claims1
An improved noise jamming device for producing a non-uniform RF spectrum with a random density pattern comprising:
- a. a noise source generating a continuous spectrum of noise frequencies from direct current to about 5 MHz,
- b. a low pass filter means in circuit with said noise source attenuating all frequencies above a selected cut-off frequency within the range of from 500 Hz to 5 KHz,
- c. an amplifier in circuit with said low pass filter means for amplifying the output of said low pass filter means,
- d. said low pass filter means and said amplifier in circuit therewith forming a single integrated circuit comprising:
- 1. a first T-filter network for filtering high frequencies which allow direct current and lower frequencies to pass,
- 2. an operational amplifier having a feedback network and a second T-filter both in parallel therewith, said operational amplifier connected to amplifier of said first T-filter for further reducing high frequency components from input signals thereto,
- 3. a drive circuit connected to the output of said operational amplifier, said drive circuit serving as a power amplifier, and
- 4. a blocking capacitor for eliminating any remaining direct current leaving an output of only low frequency components,
- e. a modulator in circuit with said amplifier and being responsive to the noise spectrum passed by said low pass filter means to produce a spot or barrage noise signal output having a non-uniform density RF spectrum with a random density pattern, and
- f. a transmitter in circuit with said modulator for transmitting the output signal from said modulator circuit.
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