[Fourlanders] FW: [Mw] Toys for Boys of all Ages

[Brian McCarthy]

Jim, with all due respect: You are Weird!

Kent just happens to think quite outside the box, or is that look inside the
box... I may have to subscribe to the MW reflector now. I have a possible
application for this little radar gun...

Thanks, from one of the even weirder people in this Fourlanders group!
Brian
NX9O

On 11/27/06, Jim Worsham <wa4kxy at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> And some folks think I am weird!
>
> Jim Worsham
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: microwave-bounces at lists.valinet.com
> [mailto:microwave-bounces at lists.valinet.com] On Behalf Of Kent Britain
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 10:21 PM
> To: Microwave Reflector
> Subject: [Mw] Toys for Boys of all Ages
>
> Walmart (And probably other toy dealers) are selling an X-Band RADAR
> with digital Dopper readout for $20!   Yep, $20.
>
> It's in the Toy dept and sold by Mattel as a HotWheels accessory.
> FCC ID PIYJ2358-06A1T
> IC 4390C-J2358A1T
> 10.525 GHz
>
> Readout in MPH or KPH, and scale speeds for RC cars.
> To a full size car the range is 25-30 Meters.  Max 100 MPH.
>
> The transmitter is a GaAs FET DRO.
> The DRO goes though a power divider to a patch antenna array.
> A balanced mixer is connected to the power divider and it's own patch
> array.
> Mixer output to a digital counter and peakhold circuits.
>
> The DRO is tunable;  now to figure out a ham use.
> 73's Kent WA5VJB
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