astroclone
Aerospace
Hello. I am fairly new at the whole circuits thing, I'm trying to get into using microcontrollers and such to control everyday applications and what not. I do have an engineering degree but my 3 credit class in engineering instrumentation didn't prepare me for everything I want to know.
I was wondering if it's possible to send out a radio signal that is recieved by a reciever and then sent back to the original transmitter for purposes of getting range? I know it's possible because that's sort of how RADAR works, but I want the return signal to be able to be processed in order to determine what the range is for a given object in a field of say 20 or 30 objects. I know there are addressing issues and stuff like that, that's fine. I'll deal with that later. Right now I'm just looking for the basics at sending out a pulse and having one sent back so that the reciever knows the time of flight and what object sent it.
Hope this isn't too confusing.
T
I was wondering if it's possible to send out a radio signal that is recieved by a reciever and then sent back to the original transmitter for purposes of getting range? I know it's possible because that's sort of how RADAR works, but I want the return signal to be able to be processed in order to determine what the range is for a given object in a field of say 20 or 30 objects. I know there are addressing issues and stuff like that, that's fine. I'll deal with that later. Right now I'm just looking for the basics at sending out a pulse and having one sent back so that the reciever knows the time of flight and what object sent it.
Hope this isn't too confusing.
T
