ARTIKUL-MT
Transportable Automatic Direction Finder
Purpose:
- Outdoor radio monitoring applications including:
- Direction finding
- Panoramic spectrum analysis
- Radio signal parameter evaluation
- Radio signal recording and technical analysis
- Radio channel monitoring.
Typical configuration:
- Two-channel panoramic radio receiver in a body designed for mounting on a mast
- AS-HP5 Antenna System for automatic direction finding within 20 – 3000 MHz, with integrated navigation equipment
- Tripod (mast) for direction finding antenna system mounting when operated at temporary workstations
- Power supply and communication unit
- Control and display unit with SMO-PPK, SMO-STA, SMO-ASPD, SMO-KN Software Packages
ARTIKUL-MT Direction Finder
Options
- AS-HP-HF replaceable antenna system for automatic direction finding within 1.5 – 30 MHz, with integrated navigation equipment
- AS-HP2 replaceable antenna system for automatic direction finding within 3 – 8 GHz, with integrated navigation equipment
- High-stable external reference generator
- Vehicle luggage box with fasteners to mount DF antenna systems
- Communication and data transmission equipment
- Software package
- SMO-BS Software Package for Automated Monitoring of Base Stations Certificate of state registration of software packages No. 2015662409
- SMO-BS 3GPP Software Package for Automated Monitoring of GSM, UMTS, LTE Base Stations Certificate of state registration of software packages No. 2021681273
- SMO-BS DECT Software Package for Automated Monitoring of DECT Base Stations Certificate of state registration of software packages No. 2015662411
- SMO-BS TETRA Software Package for Automated Monitoring of TETRA Base Stations Certificate of state registration of software packages No. 2015662742
- SMO-BS CDMA/EVDO Software Package for Automated Monitoring of CDMA/EVDO Base Stations Certificate of state registration of software packages No. 2015662423
- SMO-BS TRUNK Customized Software for Automated Monitoring of DMR, dPMR, NXDN, APCO P25 Network. Certificate of state registration of software packages No. 2016661912
- SMO-BS Wireless Customized Software for Automated Monitoring of short-range wireless networks (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee). Certificate of state registration of software packages No. 2021669703
- SMO-CT Customized Software for Automated Monitoring of digital TV signals (DVB-T/T2/H, DTMB). Certificate of state registration of software packages No. 2015613938.
Features:
- Operation at stops and while moving (when the equipment is installed on a vehicle)
- Low weight and small sizes, fast deployment
- Equipment can be transported by two operators
- Replaceable antenna systems
- Joint operation of several direction finders (when communication equipment is available), e.g. as a part of Automated Spectrum Monitoring Systems (ARMADA, AREAL etc.)
- To prevent overloading of Direction Finder's digital path in complicated electromagnetic environment, digital radio receiver includes additional analogue paths with 500 kHz bandwidth
- The distance between antenna systems and operator's location can be up to 100 m
- Power supply from portable electro generator, external AC mains or vehicle on-board DC.
Direction Finder Provides:
- Search for emissions, their parameters evaluation, technical analysis and comparison with the database
- Creation of databases, their extension and comparing of the recorded data with the references in the database
- Field strength evaluation
- Recording of the radio signal within wide bandwidth
- Panoramic spectrum analysis within the entire operating frequency range or within separate intervals under complicated electromagnetic conditions, detection of changes in ambient electromagnetic conditions
- Recording radio environment within a specified frequency range. This procedure can function within a long period and is based on amplitude/frequency/bearing/time coordinates, unit location and the absolute time at the time of saving
- Single- and multi-channel direction finding of radio signals with any modulation types and spectrum width
- Selective direction finding of 2G/3G/4G/5G Base Stations
- Selective (time-slot based) direction finding of subscriber 2G terminals (mobile phones, trackers, etc.), operating at the same frequency
- Selective direction finding of Wi-Fi communication devices with recognition of MAC-address, including those that use non-standard frequency ranges
- Accumulation of data for further analysis in the postprocessing mode
- Displaying bearing to a radio emission source in electronic map
- Check of frequency/time parameters and service information of base station of modern communication and data transmission systems (GSM, IS-95, cdma2000, EV-DO, UMTS, TETRA, DECT, LTE, Wi-Fi, DMR, APCO P25).
Technical Specifications
| Operating frequency range (using replaceable antenna systems) | 1.5 – 8000 MHz |
| Single-channel dynamic range (with attenuators) | 110 dB, min |
| Intermodulation free dynamic range (3rd and 2nd order) | 75 dB, min |
| Attenuators | 0 - 30 dB, incr 1 dB |
| Maximum simultaneous bandwidth: | |
| Within 1.5 - 5 MHz range | 1 MHz |
| Within 5 - 25 MHz range | 2 MHz |
| Within 25 - 110 MHz range | 5 MHz |
| Within 110 - 220 MHz range | 10 MHz |
| Within 220 - 8000 MHz range | 24 MHz |
| Receiver tuning resolution | 1 Hz |
| Panorama spectrum analysis rate when scanning over operating frequency range (with 12.5 kHz spectrum discreteness) | 15 GHz/s, min |
| Minimum duration of detected single signal | 1 µs |
| DF method | Correlative interferometer |
| Operating azimuth range | 0° - 360° |
| Operating elevation range | Not specified |
| Processed signal spectrum width | Arbitrary |
| Maximum simultaneous DF bandwidth | 24 MHz |
| Single-channel direction finding rate, min | 100 bearing/s |
| Processed single signal minimum duration | 1.5 ms |
| DF field sensitivity, max. | |
| Within the range from 1.5 to 30 MHz (AS-HP-HF) | 15 µV/m (typical 9 µV/m) |
| within 20 - 110 MHz (AS-HP5) | 10 µV/m (typical 6 µV/m) |
| within 110 - 3000 MHz (AS-HP5) | 8 µV/m (typical 4 µV/m) |
| within 3000 - 8000 MHz (AS-HP2) | 15 µV/m (typical 5 µV/m) |
| Instrument azimuth DF accuracy (RMS): | |
| Within the range from 1.5 to 30 MHz (AS-HP-HF) | 5 max.° |
| within 20 - 110 MHz (AS-HP5) | 5 max.° |
| within 110 - 3000 MHz (AS-HP5) | 2.5 max.° |
| within 3000 - 8000 MHz (AS-HP2) | 5 max.° |
| Types of recorded data | Bearing, spectrum, time, signal sampling (I/Q) |
| Maximum I/Q bandwidth | 40 MHz |
| Continuous recording time | Depends on the storage volume |
| Antenna system | single |
| Antenna system dimensions (diameter×height) | |
| AS-HP-HF | 465×170 mm |
| AS-HP2 | 350×190 mm |
| AS-HP5 | 580×250 mm |
| Dimensions of receiving and processing unit (diameter×height) | 480×210 mm |
| Weight of antenna system: | |
| AS-HP-HF | max. 6.2 kg |
| AS-HP2 | 3 kg, max. |
| AS-HP5 | max. 8.5 kg |
| Weight of Receiving and Processing Unit | 10 kg, max |
| Continuous run-time of internal battery | 2 hour, min |
| DC supply voltage | 10 - 32 V |
| Power supply by AC network (when power supply unit included) | 90 - 250 V |
| Power consumption without auxilary devices (controller, AWS etc.) | 120 W, max. |
| Operating temperature range | -40°C … +50°C |
| Maximum altitude above-sea level | 4500 m |
Typical curves of RMS and DF sensitivity vs. frequency are the same as curves given for antenna systems of ARTIKUL-H1 Manpack Direction Finder.