Hi Jon,

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! I'm trying to control my feature creep
tendencies, so I'm just going for an incoherent, non-Doppler radar right
now. However, I plan on providing an RX IF output jack and TX IF input
jack, so that it would be easier, later on, to add a coherent signal
processor if I ever get around to it. The LO board I just designed should
be very stable and fairly low phase noise, so I think it might be good
enough as a basis for a coherent system.

Essentially, I'm hoping for something that can map out moderate to heavy
rain within a several tens of mile radius. My biggest limiting factors are
a 20 Watt peak output power (only affordable amplifier I could find) and
the 3 foot dish (need to fit it in my car).

Sean

At 12:43 PM 12/16/01 +0000, you wrote:
>Sean,
>
>Thanks for that - a good explanation. Your weather radar project- are you
>just detecting cloud levels.. or are you going the whole 9 yeards and trying
>to make a doppler system :)
>
>Jon
>
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