At 09:00 PM 5/8/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Inchoate sputtered impotently:
>
> > Which means nothing, making your
> > doohicky corner reflector rotate
> > means absolutely nothing other
> > than it's in an orientation to
> > reflect the beam back into the
> > radar gun even less often than
> > if it's fixed.
>
>Oh really? Inchoate obviously has NO idea how a corner reflector works.
>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
>
> > There is also sections in BOTH you
> > gloss right over that say in clear
> > language (one even explains the
> > surface area requirement if you'd
> > bothered to read them) why 'passive'
> > techniques don't work. Your technique
> > is a 'passive' technique. It won't
> > work...
>
>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.
>
>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?
This would be especially effective for car which draw most/all of their
cooling from an under-the-bumper or very low cowl position (like some Jags).
steve
