Re: [Paddlewise] radar signature

From: Elaine Harmon <eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:27:28 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 juliom_at_cisco.com wrote:

> Radar reflectors are made of several surfaces perpendicular to 
> each other.  The effect of this arrangement is that radar waves
> are reflected back in the same direction in which they came.  

Aha! So you'd have to have a bent wire structure inside that would turn it
into a rotating vane, to be hoisted up on the shaft under the blade. But
then you couldn't paddle and hold it up. A shock-corded light Al tent
pole? Strapped to the paddler's back?

Maybe I just won't paddle in fog. e

Elaine Harmon - eilidh_at_dc.seflin.org - eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu


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