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    The Decca Navigator System was a hyperbolic radio navigation system which allowed ships and aircraft to determine their position by receiving radio signals from fixed navigational beacons.

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    DECCA Navigation System

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    The Decca Navigator System was a hyperbolic radio navigation system which allowed ships and aircraft to determine their position by receiving radio signals from fixed navigational beacons.

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    DECCA NAVIGATION SYSTEM

    DECCA NAVIGATION SYSTEM


    Is a hyperbolic navigation system which
    allowed ships and aircrafts to determine their
    position by receiving radio signals from fixed
    navigational beacons.
    First developed by the Royal Navy during
    WW II.
    It was established in the United Kingdom
    after World War 2 and is later used in many
    areas around the world.
    DECCA NAVIGATION SYSTEM (DNS)
    It is operated by measuring phase
    differences between continuous signals from
    a master and slave stations.
    These differences were then related to
    hyperbolic lines printed on a chart.
    By plotting the readings from two pairs of
    hyperbolas at any particular instant, user
    could plot their position instantly.
    DECCA NAVIGATION SYSTEM
    The system used groups of at least three
    shore based transmitter stations called
    chains operating under low frequencies from
    70 to 130 kHz radio band.
    Each Chain comprised of one Master and
    two or three Slave stations, usually 80 to 110
    km from the Master Station.

    DECCA NAVIGATION SYSTEM
    The accuracy of DNS ranged from 50 meters
    during daytime to 200 meters at night time.
    It could decrease up to 800 meters as the
    distance from the baseline increased.
    Accuracy was also affected by seasonal
    effects which generally reduced the accuracy
    by a factor of 6 to 8.
    DECCA NAVIGATION SYSTEM
    The maximum daytime range for DNS was
    300 to 400 miles with a reproducibility of 200
    meters.
    At nighttime, accuracy was guaranteed out to
    be 240 nm by the British Admiralty.
    DECCA NAVIGATOR

    PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
    Chains - consists of a number of land-based
    radio beacons organized into chains.
    Master station and three Slave stations,
    termed Red, Green and Purple. Ideally, the
    Slaves would be positioned at the vertices of
    an equilateral triangle with the Master at the
    center.

    PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
    Master station provides the 'master' signal
    which was used by its associated Slave
    stations to derive signal frequency and timing
    sequences.
    Loss of a Master would disable a station
    whilst loss of a Slave would reduce accuracy.

    PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
    Master-Slave Distance = 60~120 Nmiles
    It operates by comparing the phase
    difference of radio signals emitted by several
    radio stations.
    Pattern refers to the set of hyperbolic lines
    of position

    PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
    Receivers identified which hyperbola they
    were on and a position could be plotted at
    the intersection of the hyperbola from
    different patterns, usually by using the pair
    with the angle of cut closest to orthogonal as
    possible.

    DECCA NAVIGATION PRINCIPLE

    FREQUENCY
    Station Harmonic Frequency (kHz)
    Master 6f 85.000
    Purple Slave 5f 70.833
    Red Slave 8f 113.333
    Green Slave 9f 127.5000

    COMMON FREQUENCY (LCM) FOR EACH MASTER/SLAVE PAIR
    Pattern Slave
    Harmonic
    Slave
    Multiplier
    Master
    Harmonic
    Master
    Multiplier
    Common
    Frequency
    Purple 5f *6 6f *5 30f
    Red 8f *3 6f *4 24f
    Green 9f *2 6f *3 18f

    LANES AND ZONES

    Decometer - An adding-type phasemeter
    which adds up the total number of degrees of
    phase shift between two signals.
    Lane interval between two adjacent
    hyperbolas on w/c the signals are in phase.
    Zones group of lanes usually with 18
    green, 24 red, or 30 purple lanes per zone

    TYPICAL LANE AND ZONE WIDTHS ON THE
    BASELINE ARE SHOWN IN THE TABLE:

    Land or Zone Width on Baseline
    Purple Lane 352.1 m
    Red Lane 440.1 m
    Green Lane 586.8 m
    Zone (all Patterns) 10563 m
    DECOMETERS

    MULTIPULSE
    20-second cycle simultaneous wave
    transmission for each of the four Decca
    frequencies with a brief period of 0.45
    seconds.
    Provides automatic method of lane and zone
    identification by using the same phase
    comparison techniques described above on
    lower frequency signals.

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