Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar

Re:Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar by CamperBob2 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:21PM (#39935355)

Interesting article. I wonder if any progress on the ITAR issue has been made since 2022? If Brad Parkinson can't steer ITAR in the direction of common sense, nobody can. (For those who don't know, he was the principal architect of the original Navstar GPS system.)

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Re:Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar by wbl on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:33PM (#39937500)

I would prefer we not have homemade cruise missiles all over the place. The people who need them can make them after all.

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Re:Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar by bigiain on Thursday April 04, 2024 @09:30PM (#39937802)

Apparently the hobby drone racers are doing that now: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-04-05/how-a-small-c...

And it's certainly not just a recent Ukraine related thing either: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/boffin-builds-backyard-missile...

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Re:Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar by rfrec0n on Thursday April 04, 2024 @09:02PM (#39937655)

To be fair, nobody actually neeeds cruise missles

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Re:Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar by non-chalad on Friday April 05, 2024 @06:55AM (#39940885)

I need some, for mail delivery. Those messages won't send themselves.

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Re:Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar by CamperBob2 on Friday April 05, 2024 @07:53PM (#39948674)

When it comes to getting the message across, never underestimate the bandwidth of a W84-equipped GLCM.

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Re:Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar by numpad0 on Friday April 05, 2024 @01:23AM (#39938934)

Sure, it's getting increasingly easier to just buy China made for ITAR-protected products. Night vision cameras, thermals, drones. They're fine, way more user friendly, often cheaper too.

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Re:Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar by fullspectrumdev on Friday April 05, 2024 @09:33AM (#39942180)

There are now even Gen3 night vision tubes being made in China.

They aren’t quite as good as US made ones yet, but it’s getting pretty close.

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Re:Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar by CamperBob2 on Friday April 05, 2024 @02:03PM (#39945281)

Congratulations, you are why we can't have nice things.

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Re:Homemade 6 GHz pulse compression radar by fullspectrumdev on Friday April 05, 2024 @09:32AM (#39942164)

Nothing can steer ITAR into the direction of sense.

I’ve had to go to extremely ridiculous lengths to buy downlead cables for a headset recently because the cable was deemed ITAR.

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