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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: Tricorner reflectors for 900 MHz microwaves?
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mross@nyx10.cs.du.edu (mike ross) writes:
>Is there such a thing as an omnidirectional reflector for microwaves
>in the 900 MHz region?  Sorta like the tricorner reflectors they
>bounce lasers off on the Moon, which direct a beam back to its source.

     Sure.  Just make a metal corner a foot or more across.  These things
are called "radar corners", and you can buy them in boating stores.
They're used to make small boats look bigger on radar, so your sailboat
doesn't get run over by a freighter.

     Aluminum foil will work.

						John Nagle
