De Jesús-Castro, Benjamín

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Design and implementation of a low power, low cost s-band bistatic receiver
(2012) De Jesús-Castro, Benjamín; Colom-Ustáriz, José G.; College of Engineering; Cruz-Pol, Sandra L.; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Castellanos, Dorial
This document summarizes the design, fabrication, and testing of an S-band receiver single node for a multistatic radar network application. The proposed receiver design established the need of low cost, low power, easy to replicate and deploy system, to be operated by the United States Air Force. This work has been completed by modifying a previous prototype receiver built under the same USAF grant at Colorado State University with UPRM collaboration. The modifications consist in the replacements of the most expensive components including the antenna, the data acquisition system, the synchronization system, the containing box and adjustments to the operating frequency bandwidth. Presented as part of the design are tests to individual components, sub-systems and to the complete receiver as a system. With the modifications made to the existing receiver the cost has been reduced approximately by a factor of 4. In addition, a solar energy option was implemented for the modified design.