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Vessel Detectors - Radar Cross section
Can you double your radar cross section (RCS) by installing 2 radar
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Vessel Detectors - Radar Cross section
Norma Jean Little wrote:
Can you double your radar cross section (RCS) by installing 2 radar reflectors? You cannot make yourself a bigger target, as in 'wider', but I should think that using two reflectors, fore and aft or port and starboard - separated - would increase the strength of the signal you reflect. Depending on the way the receiver is configured, the display 'blip' might appear larger, but only slightly. More importantly, an increase in reflected signal strength tends to increase your target's persistence on the screen. |
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Vessel Detectors - Radar Cross section
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 19:48:14 -0400, Norma Jean Little
wrote: Can you double your radar cross section (RCS) by installing 2 radar reflectors? It's about additive. If your bare pole c/s is one and the reflector c/s is also one then the first boosts you from one to two, the second boosts you from two to three. Brian W Altus OK |
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Vessel Detectors - Radar Cross section
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 19:48:14 -0400, Norma Jean Little
wrote: Can you double your radar cross section (RCS) by installing 2 radar reflectors? Yes. The bigger the better. Larry W4CSC Maybe we could get the power grid fixed if every politician regulating the power companies wasn't on their payrolls. |
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Answering NG Questions
I use Free Agent.
It keeps a long history of threads in each group. So fresh posts are easy to lose. Today I saw a question about caulking lights in alloy frames. But I had stepped on. So I scanned back. Couldn't see it from the subject, so I gave up. Descriptive subject lines are helpful. Brian W |
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Answering NG Questions
Brian Whatcott wrote:
I use Free Agent. It keeps a long history of threads in each group. See Group / Default Properties / What to Purge to cut the history down if you want to. So fresh posts are easy to lose. Sort them by date - - - or can't you in the free version? Today I saw a question about caulking lights in alloy frames. But I had stepped on. So I scanned back. Couldn't see it from the subject, so I gave up. Descriptive subject lines are helpful. Agreed! TomT |
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Answering NG Questions
x-no-archive:yes TomT wrote:
Brian Whatcott wrote: I use Free Agent. It keeps a long history of threads in each group. So fresh posts are easy to lose. Sort them by date - - - or can't you in the free version? Today I saw a question about caulking lights in alloy frames. But I had stepped on. So I scanned back. Couldn't see it from the subject, so I gave up. Descriptive subject lines are helpful. Agreed! Note: I use Agent and not Free Agent - I think Agent is worth the piddling amount of money that it would take to upgrade. I try to delete the posts as, or shortly after I read them unless there is useful information that I may want to keep. If I want to keep something I put a Keep on it (which puts a little symbol like a padlock). Then periodically I delete everything else. I must confess I am egocentric enough that I put an automatic Watch on those threads where I've posted something, so that in active groups I can go see if someone has answered me. The real problem for me is when someone uses a thread title that is the same as some previous thread on a post that I've kept. grandma Rosalie http://www12.virtualtourist.com/m/4a9c6/ |
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Answering NG Questions
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Rosalie B. wrote: Note: I use Agent and not Free Agent - I think Agent is worth the piddling amount of money that it would take to upgrade. Rosalie - I assume you were replying to Brian. In any case, I agree. Since I've got your attention for a moment, let me thank you for your informative posts. It's obvious you're often really "out there". TomT |
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Answering NG Questions
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:27:49 GMT, Rosalie B.
wrote: /// I use Agent and not Free Agent - I think Agent is worth the piddling amount of money that it would take to upgrade. /// grandma Rosalie http://www12.virtualtourist.com/m/4a9c6/ Hi Rosalie, as you surmised, the 'sort by date' option is disabled in Free Agent. I enjoy the facility of referring back over a long thread, and that dissuades me from wholesale deletions - until the NG gets unwieldy. Brian W |
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