Eric K. Weber wrote:
The Dew Line FPS18 radars ran 1.2MW Peak power... average would be
substantially lower. ERP would be 20db or more above that. Definitely a
sea story.... he would have been seriously cooked, and I don't think they
would want to run an extremely expensive transmitter into an improper load.

No, these weren't DEW line radars... this was in the 1980s at GTRI with
much lower wavelength stuff and much lower power. I've only seen the DEW
system in photographs.
--scott

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