Pulse Repetition Frequency
From EUROCONTROL ATM Lexicon
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pulse recurrence frequency |
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Abbreviation
PRF
Definition
An average number of pulses/interrogations per second transmitted by the radar (see “Stagger”). Also known as pulse recurrence frequency.
Definition Source
ICAO (2004), doc. 9684 Manual of the Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) Systems
