Chapter5:AUTOMATIC DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEM (DFS-43A)

Introduction: This is a microprocessor based automatic direction finder system to provide bearing information to a selected ground station in low & medium AM bands(190-1860 KHz).The main purpose of the system is to indicate the direction of arrival of electromagnetic wave from the selected NDB station.It provides the numerical & visual display of bearing to the selected NDB station. 2.System Description ADF DFS43A System is interfaced with IADS for controls and data display. NDB station frequency is selected on the SYSTEM page 3 of CDS where bearing is also displayed in numeral form .The visual indication of the bearing pointer (RMI pointer) is displayed on the PFD page of MFD. It consists of the following system components: 1)ADF receiver, 2)Loop/sense antenna. --The receiver is located on the RH side behind station 7. The antenna is installed on the bottom fuselage, centre line behind station 6. ADF ON/OFF switch is located in the overhead panel. --The receiver operates in the medium frequency of 190-1860 kHz (with a channel spacing of 0.5 kHz) and also at 2182 kHz marine frequency. --The signals are received through the loop/sense antenna and the bearing of the radio station is indicated on MFD. Audio code of selected ground station is channeled through intercom system.

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Fig. 1 shows interconnection diagram of ADF system

28 V DC

DMC1

TO INTERCOM

ADF RECEIVER

DMC2

ADF ANTENNA

Fig 1: Interconnection diagram ADF system

2.0 Controls and Display ADF (DFS 43A) System is interconnected to CDS for controls and MFD for data (bearing) display,. Refer Figure- 2 for ADF controls on Page 3 of SYS page on the CDS and Figure-3 for ADF pointer display on MFD .

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ADF OSS

Fig 2: ADF page in CDS(Page 3 of SYSTEM page) 2.1 ADF Option Selection Switch (OSS) ADF system requires operation CL1, CL2 OSS in page 3 of SYSTEM page on CDS. CL1 is used for selecting the modes. CL2 is used for editing the frequency. CL1 lower line is reserved for Bearing display

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ADF Modes : Successively depressing CL1 on CDS OSS will cycle through all available operating modes of ADF System as given below
ADF ADF~ ANT~ BFO~

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ADF~ (Automatic Direction Finding ON) ANT~ (Antenna mode. Both Beat Frequency Oscillator and ADF off) BFO~ (Both BFO and ADF on) 2.3 Frequency Tuning Pressing of CL2 will allow for entering the valid ADF frequency. System will get tuned to the selected ADF beacon. ADF bearing pointer is displayed on the HSI ( PFD page of MFD). 2ADF
bearing pointer

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ADF bearing display in HSI of MFD

Note : ADF pointer disappears from the display when there is no valid signal

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