Radar Sentry
I purchased one of these from Ebay:
http://www.guysoflidar.com/museum/th...radar-detector... They show up occasionally on Ebay; first manufactured in 1961, when the police in some states were use X-band radar to detect speeding vehicles. They may not be sufficiently sensitive to pickup a ships radar in time to be of any use, but at $20 they are worth testing versus the $500 C.A.R.D. Cheers, Jim |
Radar Sentry
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..... |
Radar Sentry
wrote in news:ec052890-aba9-4c1e-9c5c-
: 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.... |
Radar Sentry
On Fri, 02 May 2008 17:55:49 +0000, Larry wrote:
wrote in news:ec052890-aba9-4c1e-9c5c- : 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 |
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