Michael A. Terrell wrote:

msg wrote:

Spob wrote:

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Would it be possible to build a gizmo that could be surreptitiously
aimed at the offending stereo system to fry some crucial components?

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I assume many high power radar site operators have pet stories to
tell, but I remember one that deserves a retelling:

There was a Merritt Island cop who set up a speed trap on a road perhaps
a mile downroad from a powerful range tracking radar station. The operators
were not amused with the daily harassment from him and decided to make his
life a little more interesting and theirs a little less hassled. Siting the
cop's squad car in the telescoping aiming site of the radar dish, one of the
operators briefly keyed a pulse train and watched. Soon the car left but
returned the next day. Again the operator sited and pulsed the car and again
it left. After the third day it did not return. I do not know if the tracking
radar and cop's radar gun were on the same band, however I do know that 1MW of
microwaves was sufficiently nondiscriminatory at the receiving end to burn out
its front end.

Regards,

Michael



Bull****. The antennas rotate, but the elevation is fixed. There is
no telescope on any RADAR Antenna, and no way to "Siting the cop's squad
car".

I beg to differ. Our organization had two AN/MPQ-10A mortar tracking radars
(250kW) which had telescopic sites, could be manually aimed and manually
pulsed.

The above story was told by an operator our Apollo 12 task force got to know.

Regards,

Michael