Radar transponder

Claim 1

A radar transponder comprising: a video amplifier for amplifying a detected output of a receiving signal up to a definite level; an auxiliary video amplifier for amplifying an output amplified by the video amplifier up to the level necessary for triggering a control circuit; said control circuit being triggered by an output of the auxiliary video amplifier to generate a pulse for producing a transmitting time of the radar transponder; said radar transponder having a video switch provided between said amplifier and said auxiliary amplifier to switch over from a closed state in which a signal applied to said auxiliary amplifier from said amplifier is broken by a positive potential pulse input synchronized with an output signal from said control circuit and brought int a high level only during the transmitting period of the radar transponder to an open state in which the signal applied to said auxiliary amplifier from said amplifier being conducted by said positive pulse is brought into a zero level except during said transmitting period, and vice versa; wherein the detected output of said receiving signal is received by a receiving antenna and amplified by a Field Effect Transistor (FET) amplifier, and then detected by a diode direct detector and supplied to said video amplifier and, at the same time, the transmission of the radar transponder is performed by a transmitting gate circuit for producing a transmitting gate pulse based on the output pulse from said control circuit and supplying the transmitting pulse to a receiving on-off switch, a sweep signal generator, and a microwave oscillator, said sweep signal generator for receiving said transmitting gate pulse producing a required number of saw-tooth wave signals using the pulse, and supplying them to said microwave oscillator, said microwave oscillator for making a microwave oscillate only during a finite time interval using said transmitting gate pulse and radiating a transmitting signal through a transmitting antenna while varying the oscillation frequency within the rated frequency range in accordance with the voltage value of said sawtooth wave signal to sweep the frequency, and a receiving on-off switch for making zero an output level of a receiving signal applied to said FET amplifier by said transmitting gate pulse and stopping the operation of said FET amplifier only during the period corresponding to the width of the receiving gate pulse concerned.