Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar

Re:Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar by davekeck on Thursday April 04, 2024 @12:36PM (#39932692)

> Cost was 330 USD for PCB manufacturing and assembly of two PCBs and additional 225 EUR (240 USD) for components from Digikey that I soldered myself. This is including 24% VAT and shipping costs.

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Re:Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar by georgeburdell on Thursday April 04, 2024 @02:36PM (#39934221)

Plus the test and validation equipment which are $$$

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Re:Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar by henrikf on Thursday April 04, 2024 @03:08PM (#39934560)

I actually didn't use any expensive test equipment, only oscilloscope and multimeter. Even design and simulation software was all open source.

Expensive signal analyzer or spectrum analyzer would have been useful, but they aren't absolutely necessary. It's possible to use the radar itself for many tests and debugging.

I have tried to limit the projects I do on my own to only the equipment that I have home and open source software.

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Re:Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar by Yenrabbit on Friday April 05, 2024 @11:38AM (#39943749)

Fantastic work! I enjoyed reading the previous posts as well, very interesting.

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Re:Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar by rkagerer on Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:36PM (#39935500)

I came to ask about that 24% VAT - ouch!

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