Document Type
Report
Department/Program
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Publication Date
7-1976
Abstract
As part of the continental shelf investigations of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) , electronics were developed and tested to track an ocean-current-following (Lagrangian) buoy by the retransmission of Omega navigation signals to a shore station using medium frequency (2 . 398 MHz) ground wave propagation and equal-carrier-upper-sideband modulation . The buoy electronics include sharp clipping and filtering for noise reduction and Omega signal equalization . The carrier and upper sideband are transmitted with equal power to maintain the relative phases of separate Omega station signals on demodulation. The base station is a 2.4 MHz receiver/demodulator feeding a commercial Omega navigation receiver, with minicomputer processing for teletype printout and digital magnetic tape recording. Field trials of this navigation system were performed at VIMS in spring, 1975 .
Keywords
Oceanographic buoys, Ocean currents -- Measurement
Recommended Citation
Baker, D. L., & Welch, C. S. (1976) A prototype Lagrangian current buoy using the carrier plus sideband (CSB) retransmission of Omega navigation symbols. Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/reports/2352
