Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] radar

[Carsten Standfuss <Merlinsub@t-online.de>]

Use the orginal radar housing cover, sealit with silicon or other glue
material - conect the housing to a pressure air house and a scuba
airregulator - thats is.. ;-)

Sean T. Stevenson schrieb:
> 
> Just wondering how one would go about implementing a surface radar?  Obviously
> this would be for a larger, untended sub like Carsten's project, or anything
> similar for which surface running is a design consideration.  Would it be
> possible to modify one of the standard consumer radar units (Furuno, Ratheon,
> etc.) by replacing or augmenting the supplied radome housing with something
> depth capable?   I don't know much about these scanners, but if the guts are
> separable from the outer shell, this seems plausible - provided the depth
> capable housing was made of something transparent to the radar.  Alternatively,
> what about some mechanical configuration to keep the scanner in a 1 atm space
> when submerged, but deployable on the surface?  In either case, it is desireable
> to get such a scanner as high as possible when surfaced, but then have some
> means of reducing the profile of the masts / superstructure when running
> submerged.  Come to think of it, a folding mast that incorporated radar, radar
> reflector, nav lights, VHF and so forth might not be a bad idea.  Any thoughts?
> 
> -Sean
> 
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