Everyone else has focused (!) on wavelength, but no one has mentioned
radiated power. Wavelength is to color as power is to brightness.
Anyone know how many watts a VOR transmitter radiates?
I would suspect is it no more than a few hundred, about equivalent to
a common outdoor floodlight. The energy of even the reflected sunlight
reaching your eye, Jay, was probably several orders of magnitude
more than the energy from the VOR.


Ross Oliver