Litchfield-Santana, Alexandra

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Design of transceiver module for dual polarized doppler solid state radar for casa student test bed
(2009) Litchfield-Santana, Alexandra; Rodríguez-Solís, Rafael A.; College of Engineering; Cruz-Pol, Sandra L.; Colom-Ustáriz, José G.; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Colón-Reyes, Omar
The design of a Transmit Receive Solid State Module for a Solid State, X-band (9.5 GHz), Doppler, Dual Polarized meteorological radar system for the CASA student Test Bed is presented in this thesis. This Solid State Transceiver Module is capable of outputting a 1dBm power when transmitting and it receives a minimum detectable signal of -110dBm with as low as 4dB of Noise Figure. This device is able to handle an input signal no greater than -55dBm and it has a 24 channel system dynamic range of 41.19dBm. A twenty four channel Solid State Radar is to be designed in the future, then two Transceiver Modules are needed to fulfill each channel (one per polarizations) for a total of forty eight Solid Sate Modules. The scope of this project is to design a fully operational Transceiver Module and test it with one channel. This system will be the first Solid State system designed and developed at UPRM for precipitation measurements.