• Lobe switching is a method used on early radar sets to improve tracking accuracy. It uses two slightly separated antenna elements to send the beam slightly...
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    in concept to the earlier lobe switching concept used on some of the earliest radars, and many examples of lobe switching sets were modified in the field...
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    closer to the sediment source which may affect channel avulsion, delta lobe switching, and auto cyclicity. Active margin river deltas tend to be much smaller...
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    and the receiving antenna had three pairs of dipoles and incorporated lobe switching. A blocking device (a duplexer), shut the receiver input when the transmitter...
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    gunnery. Its angle accuracy was not very good, but the development of lobe switching specifically for this radar provided about 1 degree accuracy, not enough...
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  • 1.5 revolutions per minute, sweeping a field covering 360 degrees. Lobe switching was incorporated in the transmitting array, giving high directional...
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  • additional form of encoding is used. For WWII-era systems this was either lobe switching, or more commonly by the second half of the war, conical scanning. Conical...
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    scanning beam, examples include conical scan, unidirectional sector scan, lobe switching, etc. Palmer Scan: A scanning technique that produces a scanning beam...
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  • and degrade enemy radars, and able to keep its effectiveness despite lobe switching. ECM mission: Intercepts, analyzes, locates, tracks and jams radars...
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    to use lobe switching of its receiving antennas as a means to aim AA (anti-aircraft) searchlight beams at aircraft. Since it did not lobe-switch its transmitted...
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    This enabled the system in effect to switch from the rather broad "scanning for maxima" to narrow lobe switching. In that mode, a skilled operator could...
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    other designed to maximize high-RPM power output. The switching operation between the two cam lobes is controlled by the ECU, which takes account of engine...
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  • could be moved using a variety of methods, typically phase-shifting or lobe switching on lower frequency systems that required large antennas, or by moving...
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    to be unusable and production was discontinued. Würzburg C featured lobe switching to improve aiming accuracy. It sent the signal out of one of two dipole...
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  • armament ranging and shot-spotting set for cruisers and battleships with lobe switching beginning with Type 284M to increase accuracy of bearing readings. Prototype...
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    The five lobes are the anterior lobe or isthmus, the posterior lobe, the right and left lateral lobes, and the middle or median lobe. Lobes of prostate...
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  • production. Würzburg C Replaced the model A in production in 1941. Had lobe switching to improve accuracy. On this unit the integral IFF system was replaced...
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    1990s. To improve the accuracy of angle measurements, the concept of lobe switching became common in early radars. In this system, two antennas are used...
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    Some oscillating cam systems use a conventional cam lobe, while others use an eccentric cam lobe and a connecting rod. The principle is similar to steam...
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    1.5 m wavelength ASV Mark I connected to new antennas and a unique lobe switching system. The American SCR-268 and German Würzburg were generally similar...
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  • was that the angular resolution was relatively low, and although a lobe switching system was considered, it was apparently never used in service. Several...
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    In astronomy, the Roche lobe is the region around a star in a binary system within which orbiting material is gravitationally bound to that star. It is...
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    process is also known as delta switching. Deposition from the river results in the formation of an individual deltaic lobe that pushes out into the sea...
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    were used and a motorized switch alternated the receiver between them every 4 or 5 signals, to produce lobe switching. The switch also turned on a signal...
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    1942 -- the GL Mk. III, which was a microwave version of the earlier lobe-switching VHF radar sets. The Radiation Lab kept in close contact with the Canadian...
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  • (developed at the NRL), producing about 75-kW peak power. Colton wanted lobe switching for the receiving antennas, and Major James C. Moore was assigned to...
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    antennas was connected to a motorized switch that rapidly switched between the pairs, a technique known as lobe switching. Both signals were then sent to a...
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  • sometimes a feature of frontal lobe lesions, and of other conditions involving dysfunction or dysregulation within the frontal lobe. This is especially true...
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    accuracies on the order of ½ a degree could be attained with these lobe switching systems. As Mk. I arrived in the field, a number of improvements in...
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    and take accurate readings of bearing using a technique known as "lobe switching" but only crude estimates of altitude. It could not, therefore, "lock...
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