Thread: "Do It Yourself" airborne proximity warning device
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Old January 6th 18, 08:16 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Darryl Ramm
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Default "Do It Yourself" airborne proximity warning device
On Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 12:04:29 PM UTC-8, Wit Wisniewski wrote:

Radar may be the most practical way. Detection at short distances does not require much power, nor equipment sophistication.


Can I have some of whatever you are smoking?

Radar, as in what? Actual primary radar for collision avoidance? Please describe how this would not require much equipment sophistication. You planning on mounting phased array antennas where on the glider? Transmitting on what frequencies? Do you have a estimate on the development and FCC approval costs?