9 Aralık 2007 Pazar

:: Uzay mekiği Atlantis'in fırlatılışı 2 Ocak 2008'e ertelendi...


STS-122 görevi kapsamındaki, Atlantis Uzay mekiğinin fırlatılışı 2 Ocak 2008'e ertelendiği duyuruldu...

Ertelenme sebebi, aracın dört motorundan birinin yakıt kesme sensöründeki (ECO) problem olarak açıklandı...

Bu sensör sistemlerinin birkaçının çalışmaması durumunda yakıt akışının kesilebileceği açıklandı.

Kaynak : NASA

:: Büyük Güneş Lekesi 978...


Fotoğraf, "Rogerio Marcon" tarafından Sao Paulo/Brezilya'dan çekilmiş...

978 Lekesinin kapladığı alanın büyüklüğü Dünya'nın 5 katı...

Kaynak : Spaceweather

978 lekesi, gümeşin dönüşü ile birlikte12 Aralık günü dünya doğrultusuna gelecek.

Leke B-sınıfı parlamalar veriyor ve 48 saat içerisinde C-sınıfı parlama verebilecek yapıda.

:: Nedir bu VOR? (VHF Omni-directional Radio Range)


Yönü belirtmek için yerden yayınlanan sinyallerin faz karşılaştırmasını yapan bir hava seyrüsefer telsiz yardımcı cihazıdır ve aviyonik sistemler kategorisindedir. Bu terim "Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Radio Range" çok yüksek frekanslı tüm yönlere açık telsiz menzili kelimelerinin baş harflerinden oluşmuştur.108 - 118 MHz bant aralığında, 100 kHz'lik kanal adımları ile çalışır. Yer istasyonu 30 devir/saniyelik bir elektromanyetik örüntü yayar. bu sinyal hava aracındaki VOR alıcısında 30 Hz'lik bir sinüzoidal dalga üretir.

Yer istasyonu aynı zamanda uzaya tüm yönlerde 30 Hz'lik bir referans işareti üzerine FM modüleli bir sinyal yayını yapar. Sözü edilen iki 30 Hz'lik sinyal arasındaki faz farkı hava aracının yer istasyonuna göre açısını verir.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHF_omnidirectional_range

Peki VOR sinyali karıştırılabilir mi?

Her elektromanyetik dalgada olduğu gibi, evet.

Örneğin bir Amerikan senatörünün uçak kazasında ölmesinin sebeplerinden birinin VOR ve ILS sinyallerinin jammer ile karıştırılmasından olabileceği yönde görüşler var.

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John Ongaro, a Minnesota lobbyist, wrote to Fetzer about his experience the day Wellstone died. Ongaro said he was driving to the same funeral that Wellstone and his party were flying to in Eveleth, Minn. While traveling north on Hwy. 53 near the Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport in the same area as Wellstone's plane, he received a call on his cell phone at precisely the same time Wellstone's King Air veered off course.

"This call was in a league of its own," Ongaro said. "When I answered it, what I heard sounded like a cross between a roar and a loud humming noise. The noise seemed to be oscillating, and I could not make out any words being spoken. Instead, just this loud, grotesque, sometimes screeching and humming noise."

What he heard may very well have been electronic interference from an EMP or microwave weapon.

One writer to talk show host Jeff Rense suggested a scenario involving "black op specialists" in a van or truck full of radio/instrument landing jamming equipment. "As Wellstone's plane approaches the airport, the VOR/ILS jamming equipment is activated, and a 'decoy' VOR signal is sent to the plane, thus tricking the plane's instruments [and the pilot] into believing the airport is somewhere several degrees off the true course to the runway," S.H. wrote. "The pilot follows that signal straight into the ground. The non-descript van, full of covert electronic jamming equipment, casually leaves the area, looking just like any other TV repair truck or moving van."

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Burayı tıklayarak Amerikan senatörü hakkındaki arama sonuçlarına erişebilirsiniz.

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Pekala aviyonik sistemlerin kullandığı elektromanyetik sinyaller gerçekten karışabilir yada karıştırılabilir mi?

Aşağıda bunun ile ilgili bir makale mevcut,

Makalede bir ispanyol radyosunun ve sanayi tesisinin sinyali nasıl karıştırdığı tespit edilmiş.

(Aşağıdaki örnekte VOR frekans aralığını içermesede tesbiti için iyi bir örnek teşkil ediyor.)Occurrences of jamming in the Civil Aviation VHF band

The equipped Be-90 was put into operational service in October 2002. The first searches were immediately fruitful and showed the importance of this means in the fight against frequency jamming. SCTA played a central role in the action plan that was set up: it is the empowering body that decides to start a search. When the information on the jamming is sufficient, this is transmitted to STNA, which organizes a search flight as quickly as possible, depending of course on the availability of the aircraft and crew (in-flight controller from STNA and pilots from SEFA). When all these elements are available the operation can take place very quickly, and in certain critical cases the search flight takes place just three hours after it has been triggered by SCTA. Every effort is made so that the operation takes place within 24 hours of the jamming being reported to STNA.
STNA Operations are in charge of filing the flight plan that is established as far as possible to pass through the area where the jamming is perceived. Depending on the results, this flight plan is of course adjusted in real time with air traffic control. ATC is warned in advance by Operations staff concerning the specific natu
re of the flight and the planned course of operations. STNA also asks that the disturbed frequency be liberated during the search in order to avoid misleading direction-finder readings on legitimate transmissions from an aircraft or air traffic control. This requirement does not usually create any problems, but can sometimes necessitate sector groupings, which, in some cases, can lead to regulations being laid down In order to reduce the impact that the search flight can have on air traffic, the preliminary information is essential since it allows the area of operation to be well defined.
Once the flight arrives in the area, the aircraft follows the filed flight plan until a first signal is detec
ted, which is always on the EB-200 as it is more sensitive than the direction finder. If it is possible to obtain readings and if the listening quality is not good enough to identify the jamming with certainty, the operator then instructs the flight crew to look for a first switchover, therefore a first "abeam station". It is during this approach that care must be taken to correctly interpret the direction-finder information, which can sometimes be rather erratic according to the nature of the jamming signal and/or the electromagnetic environment in the area. This first pass usually occurs at cruising level (between flight levels 170 and 240 usually). After that, in order to be as certain as possible regarding the position of the source and to give pertinent information to the ground team (Regional Technical Service or National Frequency Agency ANFr) who will finalise the search, one or more low passes are necessary. This is done depending on the terrain, the safety altitude in the sector and the weather conditions. When these elements are favourable, it is sometimes possible to identify visually the origin of the jamming.
When a vertical pass is difficult or impossible, because of fluctuating bearings for example, software is used to calculate a position by triangulation from the various measurements recorded (direction finder-readings, GPS position and EB-200 field levels). The final search on the ground is then made from the latitude/longitude coordinates obtained.
Since 1998, the operations using STNA aircraft were able to resolve 70 cases of jamming that
were either reported or simply observed during systematic search campaigns. The origin of 91% of the cases treated was an FM radio broadcasting service in the 88-108MHz band, and 34% of the cases were of foreign origin. Among these 70 cases, some of them required an operation using the Be-90. The following examples explain some of the most symptomatic jamming.
Spectra of jamming at ACC/Southwest sector N

ACC/Southwest: Sector N
This case is one of the most critical ones that occurred in 2003. UIR sector N is operated b
y Area Control Centre (ACC) Southwest and covers an area extending from the south of Toulouse as far as the Spanish border where the traffic is then under control of the Madrid ACC. This sector channels a large quantity of north/south traffic; closing the sector and grouping the frequency with the adjacent sectors means that many regulations need to be laid down.
This is what happened on several occasions during the year 2003 due to an audible disturbance on frequency 135.205MHz described by crews as background noise or humming. As is often the case, the controllers did not perceive this jamming. In addition, this phenomenon seemed to appear at random at any time of the day. This case needed two operations using the Be-90. The first search took place on 9 April 2003 and was not successful due to the limits imposed by the dedicated permit to fly issued before the final airworthiness certificate was obtained after the modifications made to the aircraft. In fact, this first search showed that the source of the disturbance was located in Spain. It was not possible to perform a vertical search as the permit to fly limited the aircraft's manœuvres to French territory. Nevertheless, the specific character of this jamming could be shown: for once, the jamming was not caused by an FM radio, but by a parasite signal moving randomly on a band of 2MHz. This particularity explained the temporary aspect described by the pilots who had been confronted with this phenomenon.
On 30 July 2003, the second search, made this time with a normal airworthiness certificate, enabled the source to be located northwest of Gerona (Spain). The search was quite delicate, however, due to the mobility of this signal, which necessitated many frequency changes on the EB-200 and direction finder to continue the measurement, which in addition, was quite disturbed due to the mountainous environment of the site. These conditions prevented a good vertical pass over the site being made in spite of many attempts at different altitudes and from different angles of approach. The data recorded was nevertheless sufficient to calculate a reliable and precise triangulation of the jamming. This position was confirmed later (within a range of 600m) by a team on the ground. The origin of this disturbance turned out to be an electrical drying system used by a manufacturer of conductor cables.
It is noteworthy that although the operation enabled the source to be identified, it also caused some delays, as sector N had to be closed during the whole duration of the search.

Trajectories of jamming search flights on 135.205MHz. (The colour of the dots depends on the level received).

Nîmes, Muret, Calvi aerodromes: TWR frequencies
This case could have had more serious consequences if the jamming had lasted. It had been
reported by three aerodromes using the same TWR frequency, 123.20MHz. The complaints mentioned a permanent background noise above a certain altitude, which varied depending on the place where the jamming

Muret, Nîmes and Calvi TWR frequency jamming

was perceived. The probable area where the source of jamming was located was quite easy to determine because of the geographical distance separating the three aerodromes. The search flight plan was therefore defined in a triangle: Toulouse, Montpellier and Perpignan. As expected, the jamming was picked up quickly after taking off from Toulouse Blagnac and was immediately tracked by the direction finder. The first abeam station pass took place at FL170, then two vertical passes at 6000ft and 3000ft enabled visual identification of the source located at a military airfield close to Narbonne. As shown by the spectra recorded during this search (see Figure 11) it was a continuous wave emitted by some military VHF equipment, on which the push-to-talk automatic test system had remained stuck on transmission.

ACC/West: 127.86MHz

Search flight trajectory on 123.20MHz

A search to solve this case took place in August 2003 after complaints from ACC/West reported severe disturbances on 127.86MHz. As some crews had reported hearing music, it was fairly sure that the source would turn out to be an FM radio. This hypothesis, together with the experience of jamming affecting the ACC/West's sectors of south Brittany/Bay of Biscay, led to a flight plan being filed to pass over Biarritz and continue to Bilbao (BLV VOR). Indeed, just beyond Pau, the jamming was easily identified. The signal and its spectra confirmed that the phenomenon was in fact due to a fault in a Spanish FM station. The search continued until an excellent vertical pass was made, which enabled the site of the transmitting pylon to be located very precisely.

Spectra of jamming from a Spanish radio on an ACC/West frequency

Clermont Ferrand aerodrome: Approach frequency
This example is typical of operations carried out the most frequently with the BE-90. This assignment took place on 23 October 2003 and enabled identification of an FM radio beaming signals

Search trajectory on 127.86MHz

on 128.83MHz, a Clermont Ferrand approach frequency. The complaints at the origin of this search reported crackling and background noise on the approach frequency in the whole of the West/Northwest sector of its area of use. The initial flight plan was designed to cover this fairly large area. Very soon after take-off, the disturbing signal was identified and easily tracked thanks Site of emission

to the co-operation of Clermont Ferrand air traffic control, which had liberated the frequency. A vertical pass was made at very low altitude, which allowed a visit by the ANFr the very next day. It turned out to be a transmitter of the "Vallée de Vézère" radio station in Dordogne, emitting 1kW on 104.40MHz. This radio could not be identified during the search, as the parasite signal more closely resembled a continuous wave than an FM modulation. Apparently the fault originated in a frequency synthesizer generating parasite rays with very little FM modulation.

Search on Clermont Ferrand APP frequency

ACC/Southwest LG Sector
This last case illustrates the added value of the Be-90/MDF-124F system. During the month of May 2004, ACC/Southwest had been subject to many disturbances on band 135.96MHz. The pilots had described these phenomena as noises like a "machine gun", which seemed to indicate that for

Jamming on ACC/Southwest's frequency sector LG

once the troublemaker was not an FM radio, but rather a parasite coming from a factory or some kind of electrical equipment. The first operations planned by SCTA were unfruitful since the phenomenon had disappeared before the aircraft took off. It was only upon the third attempt that the signal could be followed as far as the vertical over the Chinon nuclear power plant. This jamming, the cause of which has still not been identified at the present time, would have been difficult to locate without the capabilities of the direction finder. Furthermore, with a longer operation time, the aircraft could not have been airborne during the periods when the ACC/Southwest was disturbed due to the random occurrence of the phenomenon over a period of time.


The site emitting the disturbance