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VHF PARASITIC RADAR INTERFEROMETRYFOR MST ZENITH SOUNDINGJohn D. SahrUniversity of WashingtonDepartment of Electrical EngineeringPaul Allen Center – Room AE100RCampus Box 352500Seattle, WA 98195-2500jdsahr@u.washington.eduAbstractIn this report we describe the technique of parasitic or passiveradar, and how it may be applied to observation of MST targets. Passiveradars carefully observe the scatter of uncooperative, commercialVHF and UHF broadcast services, providing range-Doppler pro<strong>file</strong>swhich are equivalent those of conventional active radars. Althoughpassive radar is not replacement for conventional MST radars, passiveradars offer an inexpensive means to create a large network oflow-cost, unattended instruments, especially for the stratosphere andmesosphere 1 .1 IntroductionFor the past several years, the Manastash Ridge Radar (MRR) has beenmaking high quality range pro<strong>file</strong>s of the Doppler velocity spectra of auroralelectrojet echoes [Lind et al., 1999]. Although data of this kind are notnew, the technique employed at MRR is quite novel: we rely commercialbroadcasts of analog stereo FM near 100 MHz.Although the passive radar transmitters are uncooperative, some emittersprovide two key features: high average power, and low ambiguity waveforms.1 This report will appear in the Technical Reports of the Department of ElectricalEngineering at the University of Washington. You may retrieve this report by searchinghttps://www.ee.washington.edu/techsite/papers/.471

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