Larry, does this mean my poorly designed oscillator will behave like
an active radar reflector?
Cheers, Jim

Be informed those old units radiated like hell and will JAM anyone's
radar that picks up the stray X-band radiation from them. *When their
radar scanner points in your direction, they will see a sectorized blob
from its CW Xband output blanking out your radar return so they cannot
see where you are. *This radiation is caused by the poorly designed
local oscillator in the old X-band radar detector's waveguide cavity, a
Gunn Diode on approximately 10.525 Ghz.....

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Larry, does this mean my poorly designed oscillator will behave like
an active radar reflector?


No! Your poorly designed oscillator will behave just the opposite.....

A reflector makes you BIGGER as a target on someone's radar.

Your oscillator will make you INVISIBLE in the CW noise it creates when
their antenna is pointed in your direction....

On Fri, 02 May 2008 17:55:49 +0000, Larry wrote:

wrote in news:ec052890-aba9-4c1e-9c5c-
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Larry, does this mean my poorly designed oscillator will behave like
an active radar reflector?


No! Your poorly designed oscillator will behave just the opposite.....

A reflector makes you BIGGER as a target on someone's radar.

Your oscillator will make you INVISIBLE in the CW noise it creates when
their antenna is pointed in your direction....

The Japanese painted a bridge with radar absorbing paint, probably
Ironball. This was so that ships radar would be able to see past the
bridge.

Casady

In article ,
(Richard Casady) wrote:


The Japanese painted a bridge with radar absorbing paint, probably
Ironball. This was so that ships radar would be able to see past the
bridge.

Casady

That makes no sense at all.... If the bridge was reflecting the signal,
how would adsorbing that same signal cause it to travel beyond the
bridge? If the Bridge was left unpainted RF should go beyond the bridge
and any targets past it would come back later, in the Time Domain, and
be displayed as farther away.

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Bruce in alaska
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