On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Zack Cilliers wrote:

> 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.

There must be something wrong with the figures, unless the new set is CW
or something weird.  Even then something does not sound right. BUT, I'm
not so good about radars.

Peter