Communications Corporation of Jacksonville

Radar Tutorial

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The information presented here is intended to present the basic

principles for understanding of how a Radar device is used to

determine the speed of an object.

Radar acronym for Radio And Detection And Ranging.

X-Band Radar: 10.525Ghz.

X-Band Radar has been banned for use in traffic enforcement since 1978, in the State of Florida.

X-Band Radar is still used in many other States. Problems : X-Band is subject to "Ghosting".

K-Band Radar: 24.050-24.250Ghz.

K-Band Radar is the dominent band in use today. The performance is better than X-Band and the

problem with "Ghosting" is eliminated. Analog and digital processing.

KA-Bands Radar- 33.4-36Ghz.

KA-Band Radar is in high demand due to the small size of the antennas. More costly than K-Band,

with a little more improvement in performance mainly due to large intergration of DSP Software.

Some Analog processing but mostly Digital and Microprocessor DSP Software.