The weather radar on the Boeing 747-200,300 is 65kW and it gives a range of 350nm the radar on the 747-400 is only 125W and gives the same range. Both is peak power. I gues in the olden days they thought you have to have lots of power to get range. -----Original Message----- From: goflo@PACBELL.NET To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Date: 10 September 1998 07:58 Subject: Beam Weapons >Used to maintain USAF tactical microwave comm stuff - 1 kw @ 2 ghz >will do a hot dog on a stick in front of the feed horn real quick. >Tropo does tend to fade a bit... > >Regards, Jack > >Mike DeMetz wrote: >> >> > Let me guess. It was an American. They have done that in Canada as well. >> > Some of those air >> > search radars are quite powerful not to mention dangerous. I have heard >> > rumours of cooking birds >> > in flight at 500 yards. Think what that might do to your body. >> >> A guy I went to school with from the Airforce told of being able to set >> a cardboard >> box on fire by setting it in front of a fighter's nose radar. >