On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:43:07 -0600, msg <msg@_cybertheque.org_> wrote:

>Jeff Liebermann wrote:
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>Sounds like a heck of a project you did ;)

Not "my" project. I originally got involved in bailing out a group of
arrogant engineers by cleaning up the antenna design. That grew
rapidly into cleaning up the control system, data link, and tracking
mechanism. The basic design was already done when I arrived. I just
made it all work.

One of the bad habits found in engineering is stopping when there is a
problem. These guys were running in circles around the problems
without actually attacking the problem. One had spent about a month
doing a computer simulation of a fundamentally flawed control system.
So, I got to jump in with both feet, turn the muddy waters into
quicksand, and kick those involved into action. Once the sacred cows
were slaughtered and sacrificed, and those involved were willing to
question their own assumptions, progress was rapid. I wasn't the only
one spending sleepless nights on this project.

>In days gone by, I had feeds from the MPQ-10A mortar tracking radar as well
>as the GMD-1 ground station.

2.7GHz, as I recall. Nice:
<http://www.primeportal.net/artillery/don/mpq10a_walk_1.htm>
It should work well at 2.4GHz for a Wi-Fi "shoot out". Got any more
sitting around?


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