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Originally Posted by stuartj View Post
Redbeard, very informative. you do sound like something of an expert...I was thinking about line of site/horizons...but commercial aircraft at high altitude ofcourse that makes perfect sense. To give some scale to Java's map tho....Radar 2 Laverton is 600 miles NE of Perth.
Not an expert. I've studied radio as a part of a radio hobby and some of it coincides. Just trying to help explain why we can't see the entire earth with radar. And radars are only pointed where a threat is likely. Unless there is a secret air base in Antarctica, we basically don't need to be worried about it.
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