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Gee Navigation System

This document provides information about GEE, the first operational hyperbolic navigation system developed in the 1930s. GEE used signals from three transmitters - one master and two slaves - to determine position based on timing differences between received signals. It allowed accurate navigation day and night for the Royal Navy, RAF Bomber Command, and US air forces during World War II. However, GEE was susceptible to jamming.

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Gee Navigation System

This document provides information about GEE, the first operational hyperbolic navigation system developed in the 1930s. GEE used signals from three transmitters - one master and two slaves - to determine position based on timing differences between received signals. It allowed accurate navigation day and night for the Royal Navy, RAF Bomber Command, and US air forces during World War II. However, GEE was susceptible to jamming.

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1935 GEE was developed by Robert J. Dippy


The name "Gee" was actually short for "Grid".
also known as AMES Type 7000
Gee used three transmitters (one "master" and two "slaves)
It was the first hyperbolic navigation system to be used
operationally.

- designed as a short-range blind landing system to improve


safety during night operations, but it developed into a longrange general navigation system.
- the electronic grid of latitude and longitude derived from the
combination of three signals received by the aircraft.

GEE RECEIVER

GEE WSC19 & WSC62

GEE TRANSMITTER

GEE TEACHING SET TYPE 30

GEE LATTICE

- calculate the time difference between two radio pulses, and


those that compare the phase difference between two
continuous signals.

- is a class of radio navigation systems based which determines


position based on the microsecond difference in timing between
the reception of two signals.
- requires the plotting all of the potential locations of the receiver
for the measured delay. This produces a series of hyperbolic lines
(a parabola) on a chart.

A collection of such stations was known as a "chain"

-used an arrangement with one master and (typically) three slaves.


The signals from the master and either of the two slaves would be
active at any time, with the third station and a chain monitor station
providing backup and signal quality measurements.
The transmitters had a power output of about 300 kW and operated
in four frequency bands between 20 and 85 MHz.

Also known as Ames 100

Used of the H-principle or Twin-range principle

Gee worked on the principle of measuring the difference in


arrival time of pulses from two transmitters located in the U.K.
By measuring this time difference and relating it to similarly
marked lines on a map you could identify which line you were
on.
Repeating this a second time using another pair of pulses and a
second set of lines on the map, your position could be
determined. One master station, the 'A' station, was common
to both sets of pulses such that three transmitters were only
required rather than four.

The indicator unit had an extremely accurate time measuring


system that could result in distance measuring resolutions of
better than 1 mile.

To measure the exact time it took for a signals to reach the


receiver, the receiver must know the exact time the signal was
transmitted.
The most common clock to use with GEE was a crystal
oscillator.

Accurate navigation by day and night


The use of GEE enabled the navigator to calculate
easily the wind direction and speed, en route and over
the target
Gee offered enough accuracy to be used as an aiming
reference without the need to use a bombsight or other
external reference.

Highly susceptible to jamming

World War II
Royal Navy
RAF Bomber Command
Photo Reconnaissance Mosquitoes
USAAF 8th, 9th, 12th and 13th Air Forces

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