(meteorobs) Radar Fence Orientation

[Tony Beresford]

At 07:36 PM 28/04/2011, James Beauchamp wrote:
>This morning I caught a 5th concurrent Sentinel camera and strong 
>radar scatter hit, and have noticed a pattern....
>
>For the AF Space Radar scatter observers out there, I'm now 
>convinced the beam orientation isn't E-W, but rather North-South.
>
>Last year, looking at the google images of the sight and the VHF 
>array, I thought the E-W belief was a bit odd.  The antenna array 
>runs North-South.
>
>James
Sorry James, that is exactly what you would expect to produce a 
narrow N-S beam, but a wide E-W beam,
a N-S line of dipoles fed in phase.
Tony Beresford