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Old 04-21-07, 06:18 PM   #137
Mraah
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Originally Posted by Jace11
Its not perfect...

There are still problems.
Not perfect is perfect

As a former air defense radar operator and currently an air traffic controller I can tell you radar is very strange. Only trained operators can distiguish between garbage, birds, ships, aircraft, tractor trailers ... Nothing like watching 18 wheeler tractor trailers on a radar that's designed for aircraft !!!!

Here's a good Radar Tutorial link I found on the web, some parts are in German :

http://www.radartutorial.eu/index.en.html

Note:
Side by side comparison of Ducimus' drawing and a drawing of the isotropic radiation from above link :




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