"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in
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Bull****. The antennas rotate, but the elevation is
fixed.

Tracking radars have both elevation and azimuth axes and drives.

There is no telescope on any RADAR Antenna,

Sure there are, when you have to synchronize them, as you do in a missile
battery.

My recollection is that you sight the acquisition radar on a marker some
distance away, and then sight the trackers on the acq in rotation.

and no way to "Siting the cop's squad car".

Easy to do with with any of the trackers.

There are no keying of brief pulses,

Sure, kick the radar's transmitter out of standby and into transmit.

the system works with a steady stream of pulsed RF,

Or CW.

and measuring the reflected signals.

Congratulations, you finally got a fact right!

If the RADAR equipment in a
cruiser WAS damaged, it was because the idiot cop was too
close to the RADAR site,

In a manner of speaking. ;-)

RADAR sites are usually well inside a fenced area,

Yes, but the fenced in areas aren't necessarily that large.

For example, there are the remains of a Nike Hercules site at N42 34' 15".
W82 58' 23". The building on the north side of the road at that location
looks to me like a Hercules Assembly and Service building. The road running
diagonal south of is is Utica road a major heavily-used public road, and its
been there and in continous service since the 1800s. The radars were on
pylons tree-covered area south of the road.

There was another Nike Hercules site at W83 03' 03" N 42 38' 21". You can
see what it looked like in the days of, at
http://nikehercules.tripod.com/d-06.html . The road that the site is on has
again been there since the 1800s, is a major public road, and was in
continuous service while the site was in use.

far from civilian areas, and

No. There was an Ajax site, nitric acid fuel and all, immediately next to 7
mile road in Detroit, inside the Detroit city limits. Our family drove by it
on the way to church on Sunday. A few hundred feet away from the launchers
were occupied residences.

high enough to clear close in ground clutter.

Concrete pylons or steel towers, if necessary.

The high
gain, highly directional antennas do not radiate enough
near field RF to do any damage,

Just cook birds and land crabs. Oh, and give me sun burns on cloudy days
when I worked on them powered up for adjustments.

unless the cruiser was on
very high a hilltop, and less than a 1/4 mile from the
RADAR site.

As I've shown, many air defense sites had heavily-used public roads running
right through them!