At 10:31 AM 8/6/01 -0400, Douglas Butler wrote:
>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.

This is a man-portable radar system.
I vaguely remember seeing ads for this..

Where's the dump? :)

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