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Drifting underwater acoustic antenna array

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Characteristics of a compensated receiving antenna array consisting of four drifting radioacoustic relaying buoys are studied experimentally. The signal frequency is 21 Hz. The array gain is 11.4 dB, and its noise immunity is 3.8 dB.

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Translated from Akusticheski\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Zhurnal, Vol. 49, No. 3, 2003, pp. 342–347.

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Bardyshev, V.I. Drifting underwater acoustic antenna array. Acoust. Phys. 49, 285–289 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1574355

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