On Tue, 8 May 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > Inchoate sputtered impotently: > Oh really? Inchoate obviously has NO idea how a corner reflector works. Actualy I do, I've built several of them. > The whole reason for using corner reflectors is because they reflect back to > the source largely irrespective of orientation. See, for example: > > http://www.strandnet.com/rozendal/reflectors/trihedral.htm.) > > For a good primer on RCS (radar cross section), see: > > http://ewhdbks.mugu.navy.mil/rcs.htm Yada, yada, yada. Which is irrelevant to the fact that the reflected signal is off axis from the incoming one AND the effective field strength at the radar gun after reflection is STILL 1/r^4 OR that the amount of energy captured by the whirly gig is SMALLER than that captured by the radiator OR that the signal level from the whirly gig is LOWER than the signal level from the radiator reflected signal OR that the gun captures the STRONGER signal (ie radiator and not the whirly gig 'noise'). > So if the site says that passive techniques won't work that must be true for > all cases, huh? Anyway, a spinning corner reflector was not addressed in on > the site. It's not just the site, it's the physics. You're little spinning whirly gig won't return an echo stronger than the 'natural' return from the radiator. The gun will sync to the stronger signal, in particular, the signal from the radiator. > Tell you what, though, how about we mount the rotating corner reflectors > directly in FRONT of the grill? This would block the grill from returning a > signal. Cool huh? grill <> radiator you nit-wit. Sticking a reflector in front of a reflector won't buy you one damn thing unless the reflector is MORE INEFFICIENT than the radiator, in which case you're ABSORBING rf not reflecting it. It's an exercise in sillyness, of which you apparently have plenty. ____________________________________________________________________ The solution lies in the heart of humankind. Chris Lawson The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------
