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The Visitor wrote:

Me wrote:
7.6Kw Pulsed Xband Radars have an AVERAGE
Power of less than 20 watts.

I know it works in pulses and it is the pulse you should look out for.
Like a microwave oven , it can induce voltages in pieces of metal, high
enough to cause sparks. What would that do to a person with a pacemaker?

No, absolutly NOT, Microwave Ovens are NOT pusled, they are CW, and
continious. It is AVERAGE Power that fries you, not Peak Pulse Power.
See, this is what you seem not to understand, about the technology that
is being discussed. You don't seem to have a grasp of how the technolgy
works.


I only know the power rating.
I am not sure arcing incidents are that rare as I have met a couple of
people who claim to have seen it happen.

and I have meet a lot of people that claim to have seen and been
kidnapped by aliens, too......

If a hammer drops on your foot and then rests there for 20 minutes, is
it the pulse or the average force to look out for.

not analogous, at all, and just shows that yoiu don't undertand the
technology that you talking about.


My radar...

Peak Power Output: 7.5 KW nominal, 6.0 KW minimum

Output Frequency: 9375 Mhz (X-Band)

Most likely using a 2J42 Magnitron or equivilent....


I think it does 160 pulses per second.

that seems a bit low, should be in the 500 to 750 range, but ok..

and the Pulse Width, which you don't cite, is the determining factor
in calculating the Average Power of the RF Energy emitted from the
device. Typical Pulse Widths would be in the .1 to 1 microsecond range
for this type of radar. So lets take 1 microsecond.
1 * 160 = 160 microseconds total ON time out of 1000000 microsends/second
160.0/1000000 *7500 Watts Peak Pulse Power = 1.2 Watts Average Power

Now understand that RF Energy is nonIonizing radiation and therefore
interacts with biologics as HEAT. Now just how much heat will be
transfered to you from a 1.2 Watt light bulb held in your hand,
assuming that you get 100% capture of that power into your hand,
and considering that if your standing out in front of the antenna
even at one foot, the Inverse Square Law still applies?




You would be willing to take the full brunt of that one foot away? I
will be back at the airport this afternoon and ask for someone to hold
thier head up to the radome. I never went to radar school.

that is obvious....


I'll take your word for it, but I won't volunteer!

Me