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by rpjacks
Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:35 am
Forum: Off-Topic Hobbies
Topic: Homemade Radar
Replies: 19
Views: 11652

Warhead, first of all, aviation radar sets are prohibitively expensive. Second, radar sets are designed to work within a certain range of freq and wattage, you can't do too much "tweaking" to those systems without significant reworking of many subsystems. The hardest part of building a home radar wo...
by rpjacks
Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:28 am
Forum: Off-Topic Hobbies
Topic: Homemade Radar
Replies: 19
Views: 11652

Technician1002 You are right about the interference issue. As I stated in my reply, as long as you are not interfering with others use of the public frequencies, you are within your rights to do pretty much anything. I would check your source on TV, Sound Systems, Phones etc, most of these devices h...
by rpjacks
Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:12 am
Forum: Off-Topic Hobbies
Topic: Homemade Radar
Replies: 19
Views: 11652

I missed this earlier... Radar does not interfere with pacemakers. Pacemakers are timed circuits to keep your heart beating within a certain range (yes this is frequency but it is not radio frequency). Other than the pacemaker potentially altering the transmitted freq of your attempt at radar and ma...
by rpjacks
Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:57 am
Forum: Off-Topic Hobbies
Topic: Homemade Radar
Replies: 19
Views: 11652

I was a Radar Repairer in the U.S. Army for 18.5 years and have some observations based on comments here. Transmitters do not have single frequencies, they are able to utilize a single freq at a time. The tuner determines the output freq for the transmitter/antenna. Current radar sets prevent contam...