Or it makes you wonder what else they have that uses this band that they're not telling us about..... Jim KQ6EA
--- John Magliacane kd2bd@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Ernest Erickson aec9823@yahoo.com wrote:
With all our money at the government's disposal,
you
would think that their brilliant minds should be
able
to think their way through this so-called
interference
and find a sutiable solution to a simple problem,
such
as side lobe rejection, additional band pass
filtering
or whatever is required to minimize or eliminate
this
'interference' althogether.
I agree.
This discussion came up recently on the "Tech Net", hosted by K2RIW on Long Island, an audio archive of which can be found at: http://amateurradio.tv/
Specifically, 40 minutes into the following clip, the PAVE PAWS discussion can be found:
http://amateurradio.tv/TechNet/Library/2007tech/070401tech/070401tech-001.mp...
(It's a 6.5 MB file)
The discussion points out that this RADAR system has been around for quite a number of years and is an extremely agile system, so it should be immune to simple forms of interference caused by regular Amateur Radio communications.
If PAVE PAWS is *THAT* easily interfered with, and that fact is not a secret, what does that say about its usefulness?
73, de John, KD2BD
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