About a year ago I pulled a radar-thingy out of the dump.  It is called
a "Whistler Radar" model WR-108 US Patent# 3735402.
It is small suitcase sized and hangs on a shoulder strap.  Most of the
volume is occupied by a parabolic reflector antenna.  It has jacks for
12V and headphones, and has one knob and an analog meter labeled 0 to 1
nautical mile.
Does anyone know what I have got?  It is a little corroded but could
probably be gotten working, if I knew what it is supposed to do.  The
company doesn't seem to exist anymore and I haven't had time to track
down the patent number.

Sherpa Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David VanHorn [mailto:dvanhorn@CEDAR.NET]
> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 6:27 PM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [EE]: Amateur radar?
>
>
> >
> >After an extensive search on the net, I only found one
> reference to this,
> >and IIRC it was a question on an amateur radio newsgroup
> about whether it
> >was legal to do, and the consensus was yes. It would seem to
> me that it
> >would be leagal, too, since pulsed modes are allowed on amateur radio
> >bands which are right next to bands used by both the FAA and National
> >Weather Service.
>
> Ya know...
> A microwave-inclined storm-spotter like me might be
> interested in such a
> project.
> Lots of microcontroller room here, controlling the antenna and such.
> Lots of interesting analog stuff too.
>
> How to begin though?
>
> NWS is complaining already, about interference from people
> using marine
> radars on cars.
>
>
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> at TELOCITY to
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