Build Your Own Drone Tracking Radar: Part 1

finally a radar DIY that isn't actually a sonar

This guy is so professional, watching his videos feels like speed running the telecommunications bachelor, thank you so much for explaining everything with this clarity, I'm looking forward to see this series 🎉

Slick! I'm a retired ET who maintained the first phased array military RADAR SPS 32 on Enterprise back in the 70's. The electronics for each panel occupied (I think) 3 units full of control circuits, 4'X4'X7' tall, one with a single 8-bit register to run the phase shifting function. And to see such a FANTASTIC handheld device demonstrated so flawlessly is simply delightful. I'm going to make one to see how low those bloody helicopters are flying! Cheers!

This is gold. No unnecessary stuff. the SNR of these videos is just too damn high. love it. thank you so much. I wish your videos reaches to all the aspiring communication engineers

I really appreciate people like you who do all this great work and still find some time to put up such educational videos and share resources with engineering enthusiasts. Really appreciate your work.

very excited for this series - thank you for the time and effort put into these.

Fantastic work, Jon. The series is off to an auspicious start!

The room and the video itself seems like a 90s TV worshop show... I love it!!!!

I am looking forward to seeing this series evolve. Great job!

Wow... It was my childhood dream to learn and build RF electronics... Radar, radios etc... Thanks a lot for making this series

I have always been fascinated by phase array technology. Very cool.

Fantastic content mate. Been waiting for something like this. Your facilitation style and content presentation is top notch. Keep it up!

Awesome! I can hardly wait for the rest of the series 😁 Thanks 👍

glad you're back! looking forward to the rest of the series!

Way back in the '60's in school we built a simple doppler radar. We used cans similar to what you are doing. Back then we used a klystron to generate the microwave signal, with what was called a hybrid junction to provide the detector and mixer. In the '80's I would have used a Gunn plexor to generate the microwave and do the mixing. I remember the term "radar mile," the time it took for a radar signal to leave the transmitter, reflect from an object a mile away, and return. My memory says about 63 microseconds, but I'm probably wrong, it's been many years. I'll have to follow your videos, thanks for sharing. Jim H.

This video was very good, it gave a presentation on the main aspects of radar systems. With practical examples from the most accessible to the most complex available for students and researchers. I just have to thank for your contribution.

This looks quite interesting. I'm looking forward to your upcoming videos in the series

your contribution is that you want to learn. Thank you. My dad was an Air Force JTAC/TACP and he tried to explain this to me but I didn't get it till I watched you learn and teach it.

Fascinating series. Love the idea of starting simple and building to more complex experiments using a common base of hardware. It was the reference to Phaser, or phase-array antenna that got my attention on seeing the reference to this video. Watched a couple of prior videos, and am subscribed, ready to follow along.

Analog Devices have some amazing engineers. It's always a pleasure to work with their products.