Patent ID: 8373595

Claim:
A simultaneous radio detection and bearing system, comprising: an RF conditioning subsystem having a plurality of arrays of Frequency Range signal receiving channels, the RF conditioning subsystem operable to combine the signals from the arrays as a first internal data stream; a coherent multi-channel digitizer subsystem coupled to the RF conditioning system, the coherent multi-channel digitizer subsystem operable to generate a time domain snapshot of the first internal data stream; an audio recording subsystem coupled to the RF conditioning subsystem; and a processor coupled to the coherent multi-channel digitizer subsystem and the audio recording subsystem, the processor operable to transform the time domain snapshot to a frequency spectrum and identify at least one signal above a threshold at a determined frequency, determine the bearing of the signal, and provide the determined frequency of a selected identified signal to the audio recording subsystem, the audio subsystem contemporaneously recording the selected signal upon the determined frequency.