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- Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:35 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Hobbies
- Topic: Homemade Radar
- Replies: 19
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...