R&S®ESMD Wideband Monitoring Receiver
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- Nationwide networked system for ITU-compliant radiomonitoring
- Searching for interference sources in the air traffic control (ATC) band
- Radiomonitoring for security authorities and organizations
- Multichannel recording of security-critical voice communications
- Signal analysis of a communications channel with unknown content
- Interception of frequency hopping radios in tactical communications
- Analysis of radar signals
Nationwide networked system for ITU-compliant radiomonitoring
- Networking of civil regulatory authorities' radiomonitoring nodes, e.g. with R&S®ARGUS 6.1 and suitable options
- Automatic identification of deviations between actual and predefined spectral values
- Guided measurements with R&S®ARGUS 6.1 – even for inexperienced users
- Audio demodulation and processing
Searching for interference sources in the air traffic control (ATC) band
- Finding and eliminating of interfering signals to maintain security-critical aeronautical radiocommunications
- Monitoring of entire aeronautical radio band (approx. 20 MHz) within realtime spectrum
- Easy detection of pulsed, frequency agile and sporadic interferers
- Audio monitoring of occupied channels to test audio transmission quality using the frequency scan
Radiomonitoring for security authorities and organizations
- Networking of several receiving stations to create a temporary networked system, e.g. with R&S®RAMON and suitable options
- Multiple receiver concept: parallel search, detection and generation of content
- Central control station to oversee the success of public safety and security operations
Multichannel recording of security-critical voice communications
- Continuous recording of voice communications
- Parallel transmission of up to 128 channels
- 25 kHz/8.333 kHz bandwidth per channel (ATC band)
- All parallel channels within receiver's realtime bandwidth
- Data transmission using I/Q baseband data output on 1 Gbit LAN interface
- AM demodulation and recording using a PC and software application, e.g. R&S®CA120 with suitable options
- Recording of voice content as a digital audio file (*.wav)
Signal analysis of a communications channel with unknown content
- Online signal analysis with live streaming over LAN interface, e.g. with R&S®CA100 and suitable options
- Signal analysis and classification
- Detection of modulation mode and transmission quality (eye diagram)
- Extraction of signal content using bitstream analysis
- Offline signal analysis of recordings
Interception of frequency hopping radios in tactical communications
- Neutralization (dehopping) of frequency hopping to protect against unwanted monitoring
- 80 MHz realtime bandwidth to cover the entire tactical communications band
- Data transmission to recording medium via 10 Gbit LAN interface, e.g. with R&S®GX465
- Offline analysis of data stream, e.g. with R&S®GX410 and suitable options
- Separation of different radios transmitting at the same time
- Combination of individual frequency packets of the same radio (dehopping)
Analysis of radar signals
- Determination of simple radar parameters using spectrum, waterfall and marker
- Determination of center frequency, rotation time and pulse parameters
- Measurement of signal level using wideband demodulation path
- Detailed analysis of radar parameters using the R&S®TPA technical pulse analysis software