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Re: Lights etc.
From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2003 Oct 10, 20:02 +0200
From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2003 Oct 10, 20:02 +0200
To the radar reflections and radar reflectors, mentioned by George Huxtable: I wonder, whether the explanation of intermittent fading out of the radar response from the radar reflector on the ground of the phase shift is the main or the only cause for this phenomenon. I had read that radar reclectors themselves have many narrow "dead angles" according to the mechanism of their reflection. Therefore it was stressed in my literature that it is necessary to let the reflector "run", ie. change its position in the horizontal plane so as to rotate the reflection pattern around reflector's vertical axis and not to fix it. George's words "This (phasing out) can happen due to a small shift in the heading of the craft doing the reflecting" hint that he supposes the fixed and ummovable reflector. Am I right? Jan Kalivoda
