It will effect you! And its effects are not the same, but similar to a micro wave oven, albeit at a lower power and higher frequency.
In the picture, your head is in its path. Sitting at your helm, it would not be. Think of it as a donut, with the radome as the hole in the donut. The beam will "generally" radiate out from the unit at a 25 degree wedge in all directions. That means that if you placed a plane (think a flat dinner plate) on top of the dome and then lowered it the inch or two so that it is at the midpoint of the radome, the radar beam would be radiating out 12.5 degrees ABOVE and 12.5 degrees below that midpoint plane. (This allows the boat to rock some before there is loss of target.)
If your body tissue is within that wedge, then it is being hit. Raising the dome up will help substantialy. That, and as captain, you should keep a close eye on the position of your passengers and crew.
This should give you a whole new view of those guys sitting on their flybridge with the radome mounted to the front of the flybridge. I hope they don't plan to have any more children!
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Getting home is more important than getting there!
Plan accordingly!
Last edited by BigLew; 04-20-2012 at 09:22 PM.
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