Comments on: DIY Ultra Wide Band Radar

By: Sallie Shaffer

Sallie Shaffer — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:01:15 +0000

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By: Carey Dorsey

Carey Dorsey — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:14:22 +0000

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By: Mac Cody

Mac Cody — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:16:09 +0000

@wim: As mentioned by Mr. Staderini’s description of the delay line: “The 47 pF capacitor in the delay line could be substituted with a varicap diode whose inverse polarizing voltage might be used to change the radar range.”. Alternately, the 1K variable potentiometer could be replaced with one that is digitally adjustable. The step size would probably have to be fine in order to be useful. Just a thought.

By: wim

wim — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:30:29 +0000

this is great! I love it!

TheKhakinator: yes, this is good old-fashioned "bounce a pulse off of something and see how long it took to come back" radar. It only detects at a single range, though, because of the way the demodulator/correlator circuit works, so you'd need to sweep the delay value. maybe you could attach multiple demodulator/correlators to the same antenna?

By: TheKhakinator

TheKhakinator — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:52:38 +0000

When they say “radar” do they mean you could use this similarly to a radar a la military aircraft? I’m assuming this thing allows you to detect the range of an object, and then I guess if you mounted the antenna on something spinning with a complex set up you could have a 360 degree radar. Or is this some other kind of radar that does something completely different that I’ve never heard of?

By: TJhooker

TJhooker — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:42:03 +0000

@Paul Anderson: I know about the FCC rules. I already have high end equipment that can demodulate signals up to 6.1Ghz though.

It's disappointing though because of all the on chip band hopping in even outlawed equipment. Even high end spectrum analyzers leave out lower ranges and focus on higher, or do the opposite. I know about antenna design interfering, but that's why they modulate the designs.

By: soi sentinel

soi sentinel — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:04:24 +0000

UWB is not so much range as data transmission. Range is probably comparable to hobbyist 40KHz sonar sets in range. And the total power is in microwatts, not milliwats. And band power is FAR smaller. Heck, I probably have more RF power in my fillings than this thing does in any particular band.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:59:49 +0000

Any idea on what the range should be?
It seems simple enough to build

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By: Tom Martin

Tom Martin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:21:25 +0000

This sounds interesting, and I already have a use brewing up in my mind…

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:06:57 +0000

um, he said milliwatts, not watts. of course you’re going to need a license for 10 watts, you can transmit for miles with 10 watts given you have a proper antenna.

By: Stephen-C

Stephen-C — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:06:57 +0000

coffeebeans…I believe he meant “milliwatts” (mw) not “watts” or “megawats” (MW). And at 100mw, it’s well below the Federal radar ;)

By: CoffeeBeans

CoffeeBeans — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:57:15 +0000

Are you kidding me? you have to have a license to use even 10watts. you need to have an even HIGHER class to use 100watts. I had to take the FCC test, its very restrictive.

By: Paul Anderson

Paul Anderson — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:03:54 +0000

Regarding the legality, FCC Part 15 rules generally permit transmission in licensed bands without a license as long as you are below 100mW.

In terms of building a scanner, you would probably just want to go out and buy one unless you were doing it for the educational value. I can think of multiple ways of doing it, but I would recommend starting with a regenerative or super heterodyne receiver. Once you've built that and got it working, you can play with VCO circuits and feeding say a slow triangle wave into it to make it sweep the tuning.

By: TJhooker

TJhooker — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:21:13 +0000

Now you can detect stuff…sorry can’t imagine why you’d want radar outside detecting velocity and range.

I was hoping this was a wide band scanner circuit.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:37:14 +0000

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