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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher,,255RTFM,255rtfm)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Reflectors on Black Mt
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.120855.21616@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 90 12:08:55 GMT
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We have one of these on a next door FAA site.

I suspect that ours, at least, are not redirection reflectors per say,
but rather it has many small corner reflectors within, and is a
marker-reflector that puts a bright spot on someone else's display.

I say that because:
1)      The one here is absolutely vertical. Any 'redirection' bouncing
	would thus be between two sites, not between the place next
	door and another. (These 'flyswatters' used to be popular, but
	are now banned.) Now it is so flat around here that the high
	spot in the county is the trashpile, thus I doubt this bounce
	is to avoid Mt. Wilson ;-}

2)	The reflector is THICK. It looks to be maybe 4-8 inches
	front-back. Thus there is room inside the cover for lots of
	corners.


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