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Project 6: ATC-1200Y3 Thurs, Sept 28, 2023 Christopher Sfyndilis Sec: 501. Group D Instructor: Zdenek Prentice
Purpose ATC-1200Y3 Transponder bench test Equipment ATC-1200Y3 XPDR/DME Simulator Wire Kit Oscilloscope Mode A Transponder Barfield Pitot-Static Tester Procedure The purpose for this transponder bench test was to test the sensitivity, power, frequency, pulse position, decoding of P2 and P3, and side lobe suppression Results To start our testing, we turned on our transponder and pressed the ident button to check the SPI pulse, the time measured is regularly 15- 30 seconds. 47 seconds was our allotted time.
Then with pulse positioning in mode A on channel 1 while adjusting the squitter dial, we see P1 and P2 visible with 8 microseconds spacing
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Before decoding with the pulse positions visible we complete side lobe suppression
Adjusting the P2 deviation dial and the SLS/Echo dial until the pulses become suppressed After carrying out the side lobe suppression we are then able to carry out P2 and for P3 decoding, adjusting the attenuator to -50dbM and moving P2 away tuning the P2 and P3 deviations, although very barely visible and should be symmetrical still shows itself
For P3 decoding we don’t exactly get any reply because it can’t decode because P3 was moved to the wrong place, and it should be 1 microsecond side to side but nonetheless visible although very dimly
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After P2 and P3 decoding showing the pulse positions Then using coax cables connecting the radio to the transmitter using an adapter and connecting velocity to channel 1 and microsecond calibration from the ATC tester to channel 2 on the oscilloscope
Then our reply pulses show up on the oscilloscope showing pulse posiions F1, A1, B2, and F2 To which after pressing the ident button our ident pulse becomes visible
And is meant to disappear on its own with our allotted time being 16 seconds until disappearance
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For the sensitivity test using the squitter dial we are looking for specific percent replies from the AOC, according to the bench testing the attenuator setting should -69dbM to -77dbM, with ours showing -74 and a half dbM Looking for a 90% reply
After completing our sensitivity test, we moved on to the power measurement, turning the power dial and watching the pulses they’re meant to slowly disappear to the baseline
Our power reading was determined to be about 175 Watts Then onto our frequency reading, adjusting the trigger and turning on channel 2 on the oscilloscope the reading resulted in 1.9MHz and using a formula we add 9 to make it 10.9MHz and multiply by 100 to get
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1090MHz Finally finishing with the Barfield Pitot-Static test, connecting a blue hose to the encoder for the Mode A transponder and to the Static connection simulating altitudes using the altitude pulse positioning from appendix F in CARS. Unfortunately there was a technicality with the calibration of the Barfield tester and kept reading our altitudes 100 ft out of phase we did correct this by adding an extra 100 ft to the simulator but there were still a 1 or two extra pulses on our readings.
According to appendix F starting with 500ft
The reading we got on the oscilloscope
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Cross referencing data from the manual we were meant to get a B2 and C2 pulse Next was 1300ft The pulse readings we got were B1, B2, B4, and C1
Cross referencing Next was 2700ft
The pulse readings we got were B1 and C4
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Cross referencing Next was 10000ft
The pulse readings were A2, A4, B1, C2 Cross referencing And lastly the next test was 14,800ft
The pulse readings were A1, and A2 Cross referencing
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To reiterate unfortunately there was a little technicality with the calibration of the Barfield tester that kept showing our pulse readings 100 ft out phase we did adjust it by adding an extra 100 ft but for some reason we kept getting 1 or 2 extra pulses Conclusion Carried out sensitivity, power, frequency, pulse position, decoding of P2 and P3, and side lobe suppression, Barfield testing
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