Bruce Winterbon wrote: > >> Styrofoam is pretty radar invisible at these frequencies, until you get it > >> wet. So imbedding the retroreflector into a ball of styrofoam is probably a > >> bad idea; they one's I've seen just hang out there buck naked, crude foil and > >> all, merrily blowing in the wind. > > > I read "radar invisible" as being transparent to radar, so embedding > something in styrofoam is not significantly different, to the radar beam, > from embedding it in air. > Correct. The critical issue was that if the foam absorbed water, the water would attenuate the signal. -- Michael Edelman http://www.mich.com/~mje Telescope guide: http://www.mich.com/~mje/scope.html Folding Kayaks: http://www.mich.com/~mje/kayak.html Airguns: http://www.mich.com/~mje/airguns.html *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Mar 19 1998 - 14:04:56 PST
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