> From: David VanHorn [mailto:dvanhorn@CEDAR.NET]
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:58 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [EE]: Amateur radar?
>
> 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? :)

On Cape Cod.  There is lots of recreational marine stuff in our dumps.

What I can't figure out is how it would be used.  I suppose you could
aim it at a target (it may have had a sighting device on top) and turn
the knob until you heard a signal on the headphones, then read the range
off of the meter.  That seems cumbersome, and explains why I have only
ever seen one of these.

Sherpa doug

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