T&T: Broadband radar

[Lawrence Zeitlin]

On Nov 19, 2008, at 12:00 AM, Steven wrote:

> Rather than bouncing signals off of a target and
> timing the return, it broadcasts a constantly increasing frequency
> and uses the delta in the frequency to compute the distance.


Half a century ago, while an employee of RCA, I designed major  
portions of the radar countermeasures system that was to be used in  
the ill fated B-70 bomber. This sounds suspiciously like the "chirp"  
pulse that was used in some airborne radars.  Nothing new under the  
sun - is there?

Larry Z