I think it appeared on the cover of Radio & Electronics Magazine in the 50's, maybe 60's. No telling what it might be worth on EMBAY If you could pair it with a copy of the magazine... John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 Dixie Competition Products NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Butler" To: Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [EE]: Amateur radar? > > 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 > > > > > -- > > Dave's Engineering Page: http://www.dvanhorn.org > > > > I would have a link to > > http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?KC6ETE-9 here > > in my signature line, but due to the inability of sysadmins > > at TELOCITY to > > differentiate a signature line from the text of an email, I > > am forbidden to > > have it. > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > > > > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics