The R&S®EDS300 is a level and modulation analyzer designed for installing and maintaining pulsed, terrestrial navigation services. Its high sensitivity and compact design make the R&S®EDS300 ideal for conducting field measurements on the ground and in the air. The DME/pulse analyzer also features trigger and synchronization capabilities for easy integration into test vehicles and flight inspection systems.
The R&S®EDS300 offers high-precision distance measurements within a range of up to 200 nautical miles (NM) for terrestrial, pulsed navigation signals from 960 MHz to
1215 MHz (e.g. distance measurement equipment (DME)). The R&S®EDS300 can precisely determine peak power and reply efficiency and can identify the ground station to be measured. The modular design of the analyzer provides a high degree of flexibility to adapt it to the task at hand. An interrogator with selectable output power (up to 20 W peak) is available for ground measurements, making it possible to acquire all system parameters such as main delay and reply efficiency. Moreover, a high-power interrogator featuring 500 W (peak) can be used for flight inspections.
Using the R&S®EDS-B2/R&S®EDS-B4 and R&S®EDS-K4 options, the R&S®EDS300 measures the distance to a DME ground station as well as various other DME parameters such as reply efficiency and pulse repetition rate. The R&S®EDS-K5 multi-DME mode option expands this functionality to include flight inspection measurements and diverse monitoring applications, making it possible to analyze up to ten ground stations within 50ms.
- High-precision measurement of DME and TACAN systems on the ground and in the air (in line with ICAO Doc. 8071, ICAO Annex 10, STANAG 5034 and MIL-STD-291C)
- High-precision measurement of all signal parameters (e.g. peak power, distance, reply efficiency, modulation data) and detailed pulse shape analysis
- Multi-DME mode for measuring up to ten DME stations (R&S®EDS-K5)
- Extremely compact design due to integrated interrogator in different power classes (one-box solution)
- Synchronization (GPS and trigger inputs)
- Measurement functions for regular verification of pulsed navigation signals
- High-precision distance and level measurements on DME and TACAN systems
- Precise measurement of all relevant signal parameters
- Very high dynamic range
- Detailed analysis options in line with ICAO requirements
Expanded functionality and adaptation using hardware and software options
Precise distance measurements on the ground and in the air (R&S®EDS-K4)
Multi-DME mode for measuring up to ten DME stations (R&S®EDS-K5)
Simultaneous measurement of two different signals using an additional RX unit (R&S®EDS-B1)
Low-power interrogator for ground measurements with variable output power (R&S®EDS-B2)
Flight inspection with integrated high-power interrogator (500 W (peak), R&S®EDS-B4)
Modulation and signal analysis of TACAN ground stations (R&S®EDS-K1)
Detailed pulse shape analysis on DME systems (R&S®EDS-K2)
GPS-based measurements (R&S®EDS-K3)
