Idea: Homemade Passive Radar System (GNU/Radar)

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 05:04 PM 8/11/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
> This unit has to be cheap and expendable - it's easy to
>locate and to destroy by a HARM missile. As a bonus, forcing the
adversary
>to waste a $250,000+ AGM-88 missile on a sub-$100 transmitter may be
quite
>demoralizing.

Microwave ovens were used in the Yugo war for this.

The invading air power can't ignore the ISM band because then you could
use it for real missile trackers.

Someone who can do vacuum and welding work could change the output
freq of an oven magnetron, by changing the shorting-strap connections.