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• Radar Signal Multipliers?
  • You mean a reflector; or a transponder?
    • Transponder is...
      • Probably she used an ACR model -- or something similar
        • If you want to be depressed....
      • What you're asking about is an "active radar reflector"
  • I have a SeaMe, there is also the Echomax....
    • Most of that is 'mental masturbation'
      • There are times you can't see from a cockpit, Dan y.
      • I never said it guaranteed squat. I have also been almost run down....
        • Perhaps I wasn't clear.
      • Can you say AIS
        • Remember our "Tillerman"? ;^)
    • What DDW said.
  • the best type of passive radar reflector
    • Actually, a sailboat hull -- even steel, unless it's a really big hull) -- isn't that visible.
    • Might be the best... but still piss poor....
      • Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but
        • The point of the transponder is that it gives 10x - 100x the return of a Blipper...
          • There is no argument
          • The thing is that they all need maintenance and at some point fail
            • Problem is, your brain tires much more quickly than equipment does...
            • You had better keep a REALLY sharp lookout....
      • The new broadband radars do very well with small boats..
        • Hunh? Is this something new?
          • Some info on Broadband radar...
            • Look on Panbo.com, he has had some interesting side-by-side comparisons.