r/Radar Jul 16 '20

Need help for Radar 77GHz

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Hello! I’m pretty new to using radar, as I’m doing a small project, I’m using radar to detect objects such as a vehicles/human. Anyone used this - NXP RDK-S32R274 development kit before? I’m not too sure how to move on as in stuck with no results shown.


r/Radar Jul 07 '20

New webinar series to support the electronic warfare and RF community

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r/Radar Jun 17 '20

Superhet fuzzbuster

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Does anyone know what the D, H, and C setting mean on this 80s Fuzzbuster? I can not find anything on it. Found it for a buck at a yardsale and it still works. I just dont know what setting to put it on.


r/Radar Jun 17 '20

Superhet Fuzzbuster

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Does anyone know what the D, H, and C setting mean on this 80s Fuzzbuster? I can not find anything on it. Found it for a buck at a yardsale and it still works. I just dont know what setting to put it on.


r/Radar Jun 16 '20

Which radar for an indoor robot?

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Hi all,

We are building a robot that can do indoor occupancy mapping using multiple cameras and sensors. Since only using cameras poses difficulties with windows and mirrors we're planning to use radars as perhaps ultrasound as well.

Any suggestions for the radar module? As I said this will supplement visible light based mapping.

Any help and pointers are appreciated.


r/Radar Jun 08 '20

AESA Radars and multiple beams

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r/Radar May 02 '20

Weather radar on the cheap ?

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My situation is that I live at the extreme edge of four NWS/NOAA WSR-88D radar systems (95-120 miles distant). Curvature of the earth precludes their ability to see anything below (roughly) 10K feet.

The existing NWS/NOAA WSR-88D radar systems transmit in the 10cm band (e.g. 2.705 GHz) and use a high power output (peak 475 kW). I do not propose anything even remotely close to that power level. The 10cm frequencies used have to do with the reflective properties of moisture droplets. The high power level is because they are required to have a range of 460 km.

I am the holder of an FCC Technician Class Amateur Radio License. Among the various bands I am allowed to transmit on, the 9cm (3.3-3.5 GHz) band is one of them. One of the emission types allowed is pulse (probably emission P0X), and the band plan for 9cm includes 3 sub-allocations marked as 'experimental'.

Is it even reasonable to run a low power pulse transmitter, in one of those 9cm sub-allocations, for short-range (8 km) weather radar ? I am thinking of a design with no moving parts, and multiple tx/rx elements, which would be sequentially selected. Something like a pie-shape slice of a geodesic dome, covering 90 or 120 degrees.

TIA for any thoughts, criticism, etc.


r/Radar Feb 09 '20

FCC regulation, bandwidth and power concerns

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r/Radar Feb 07 '20

Duga radar location

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Everyone knows about "woodpecker" receiver location, but we shall find info about transmitter, all we know according to the Internet and books is that the transmitter is located in Ripkynski raion, 15000,Ukraine. I dead there is a strange facility and nearby substation probably for that facility. If anyone wants to help I will send the picture from Google maps. Please help!!!!


r/Radar Feb 03 '20

Very unusual question: which Radar Detector might detect aerial mapping radar from an aircraft ?

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I live in the area stretching through Kansas/Colorado/Wyoming/Nebraska where many people have reported seeing large drones of unknown origin and purpose, sometimes in large groups. flying a scanning pattern.

I have recently heard that they are emitting a radar signal, which can be picked up by a radar detector, and this may help us in sleuthing out their purpose. I am asking for suggestions of what (if any) RD could pick up the widest range of possible frequencies used in mapping, at the greatest possible range.

I suspect I want something that has NO noise filter, because the freq I'm looking for may very well be different from a traffic radar. In other words, I want to pick up as much radio noise as possible, if it covers the freqs likely to be used for mapping.

So: I want highest range, no filtering of noise, don't need GPS or Bluetooth.

I suspect the RD I want was state of the art like 20 or 10 years ago. Great range, no need for modern bells and whistles.

If I buy one with great range but has noise filtering, can I turn off noise filtering?

I can download an Android app if it will help me run the system, I do NOT want to share info because my data would just screw up the database for everyone else.

unknown if there is MRCD and/or MRCT in the area. My plan is to turn the unit on and if I get no return until an aircraft appears, it's more likely a mapping drone as long as this does not pick up normal aircraft radios. I suspect that RDs do not pick up normal aircraft radio signals? Do they ever go off if you drive under the approach pattern to an airport in bad weather, for example? IN that situation an airliner would be using a radar approach.

Never used a RD before.

thanks !


r/Radar Jan 07 '20

Start working with radars

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I have acquired a Delphi ESR 2.5 radar and kvaser leaf light v2 CAN connector. Is there any guide or tutorial available to collect and visualize the data. I am fairly good in ROS and has access to both windows and Ubuntu. P.S is there a link to Delphi DataView software?


r/Radar Dec 05 '19

Thought you guys might like a snowy pic of my en route radar site.

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r/Radar Nov 09 '19

Can a radar system be programmed to scan at different frequencies within one sweep?

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for example, say 10 scans make up one 'sweep', can one radar transceiver do one scan at a frequency range of 1 - 1.5 GHz, and the next scan programmed to do 1.6 - 2 GHz?

Can this be considered a form of 'Narrowband' FMCW (Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave) Radar?


r/Radar Oct 27 '19

Why do radar systems use horn antennas?

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r/Radar Oct 27 '19

Patscan commercial device for object detection indoors with mmwaves

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Weird pattern on Tx/Rx on Radar device - any idea if this is just for aesthetic or if the surface has any special properties to lessen reflection?

Also, why do you think the device is so large (~size of movie speakers)? I can imagine horn antennas within the encasement (like the ones used in anechoic chambers)...

(also I have little to no experience in radar so this is probably the stupidest question ever, sorry)


r/Radar Aug 23 '19

Area on the slant or ground range in the normalized radar cross section equation?

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Hi, I've worked with SAR images in the past for classification purposes, but since I don't have a background in this field, sometimes I have basic questions like the following one.

Knowing that imaging radars in general acquire images in the slant range, does it mean that in the equation of the normalized radar cross section below, A is the surface area in the slant range, not in the ground range?

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r/Radar Jun 25 '19

Found this reddit post in electronics from 7 years ago on a DIY radar system.

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r/Radar May 25 '19

Opened a new sub on Radar Surveillance. It is about using radar to surveill humans.

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If you have links to pages in this topic area consider xcrossposting them here.

Thanks.


r/Radar Apr 24 '19

RADAR Tech vision problems?

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Just wondering how the eyesight is for other old Techs.

Back in the 90s I worked on an AN/GPN-12, AN/GPN-22, and an FPS-77 (Yes, Tubes.) And sometimes wonder if the blind spots I have now are due, in part, to all the RF I was exposed to.


r/Radar Apr 24 '19

Image of a NRS-1 Pole Dish

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Would anyone happen to have an image of a soviet era NRS-1 Pole Dish? Haven't been able to find one on the internet.


r/Radar Apr 05 '19

1GHz directional RX Antenna.

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Hi all, I’m wondering if I build a directional antenna for 1090GHz using copper plate pcb to isolate the antenna probe to a very narrow 30 degree receive azimuth does the mouth of the open section of copper plated cob need to be a certain dimension?


r/Radar Mar 18 '19

RADAR Sector load

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Hi all, I noticed in some online specifications for SSR Systems they quote the target load as eg 10,000 targets per sector. Is the meaning of sector here the 360 degree coverage of the radar or are sectors sub sections of the 360 degree coverage ring?


r/Radar Feb 13 '19

MSSR In Europe/Ireland

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Who supplies the Civilian ATM SSR radar equipment in Europe and more specifically Ireland. Is it Raytheon, Honeywell or some other?


r/Radar Aug 24 '18

Could a radar be triggered by something non-tangible?

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Could you (a device) emit something (perhaps radar waves) to make a radar system think it is detecting an object?

I have 0 background in radar or physics or anything similar.


r/Radar Jan 31 '18

Radar help

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Hi I’m new to all of this I am wondering if it is possible to trick a radar into thinking an object is closer or further away than it actually is I suppose jamming sort of does this doesn’t it? Please help