Shipbucket

A little more on SPG-59 -- here's the tangled nest of waveguides (with many removed) on the 3,400-element test installation on land. The calculating sphere is visible.


Of course, to preserve phase information, each of these had to be the same length to within a fraction of the wavelength of the radar.

You can imagine why this design did not mature into a practical service system! Planar phased arrays required much more in the way of computer horsepower, but were fantastically more practical with another ten or fifteen years of technological development.

Here is some much more in-depth further reading (PDF warning). I may need to revise my receiver-array setup.

Looking forward to seeing what this challenge produces.

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

I'm wondering how many people will actually use the SPG-59. Even the small one was a beast with huge power consumption.

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Would you please not eat my gun...

After deliberation I think I might sit this one out as its out of my comfort zone.
If I do sot this out, then I'm more than willing to be a judge.

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Hood's Worklist
English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

If you do, it would be mightily appreciated.

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Would you please not eat my gun...

I can be a judge too as I propably wont have time to participate in this. Also as with Hood, USN ships are not my specialty at all

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Shipbucket mainsite, aka "The Archive"
New AU project "Aravala"

I can judge as well

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

Not joining in Colo?

Hm, seems that with Hood, Golly, you and me, we've got enough judges.

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Would you please not eat my gun...

Now we just need another contestant

I'm doing an entry.

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