My radar almost killed a bunch of people

Considering the number of euro style pleasure boat with the radar on a low rear arch shooting in the back of the operator head… i wouldn’t worry.

of wait. Maybe that would explains the number of idiots on the water. And on the roads. And at the polls. Fried brain cells.

It is these ignorant people like this that really ticks me off.
No, Your not hurting anything or anybody.

Sadly, if you have to do business with this meat head again, You may just have to appease the Stuff For Brains and set your array to standby..

I recall some dumb cluck that was yelling at me to turn my radar off, I yelled back to Fly Off and to call somebody that Gave A Darn..

I worked with a couple of electronics engineers in the late 1970's that were part of RCA Marines original technical radar group, and they would love to tell the stories of flash burning hotdogs over a 125 KW transceiver in the lab with an open multi cavity magnetron in place. Mind you they were dangling the franks over an open 125 KW mag.orifice on wooden sticks and while none of them died, the majority of these techs were both bald and colorblind. That being said, Today's modern radar transceivers on yachts max out @ 25KW or so I believe, and the RF is beamed through a slotted array with a wide beam angle so the intensity of the RF is spread and not beam focused. I too had a concerned citizen come running out on a restaurant deck in Connecticut screaming about how our radar was damaging the brain cells of all of the seated youth enjoying lunch. I smiled and replied to his arm flapping screeching diatribe "thank you sir, my radar is in standby mode, and I would never come to the dock transmitting" he just walked away confused but victorious in his mind...

Just took a look at Furuno Marines latest offerings and they do produce a high power 60 kw "bird or fishing" radar that isn't a solid state or pulse compression unit. (so much for my 25-KW quote). Dunno, 60 KW might be enough to toast some marshmallows at close antenna range and I would have second thoughts of sitting in front of a 65 KW transceiver on the flybridge for extended periods of time

I was pushing 4KW / 4' array when that guy was hollering at me.
Currently pushing 10KW / 6' array.
Naw, It's not hurting anybody.

Now, If I only had my phasor in reach....

I'll put this out there.
In today's litigious society, do we really think they'd make recreational boating Radar that could even potentially harm it's users ?

Reduce range, reduce transmitted power.
I don't think the higher power levels hurt anything in computers or data comms, just there is so much stuff in that radar signal and nobody builds stuff in a Faraday Cage anymore, it could enter another machine or data line and corrupt a zero for a one bit.
Also, they may use micro-wave or satellite comms between stations or a center.

Next, during my exposure to other people's comments on this subject, I have to ad a comment that I have pondered (some).

A person with a pacemaker. Thoughts?

Phased array radar emissions will cook your innards from the inside out and take your vision and so on. General Electric pioneered a phased array treatment machine in the late 1950's for low beam radiation for cancer treatment by killing the cells in your body. Raytheon Used Phased array in their mobile missile systems in the 70"-80's and yes, Capt. Ralph, the operators of these systems were located in a steel box on the back of a six- by military truck (faraday cage) I don't know of any yachts equipped with phased array systems but plenty of ships and most all military vessels are outfitted in this manner. So at low power you have a great cancer treatment. At high power 550 KW you have a hard-boiled human.

As in hard boiled egg. Cooked from the inside out . Hard boiled human

But these are whole different monster radars than what is on our recreational boats.

I was never a fan of low mounted domes or arrays pointing at a person's head or family jewels but after these many years, never heard of a REAL issue.
I furthered wondered about someone with a pace maker but also, never heard of a REAL issue there also.

Naw, I'm hardened that there is Not an issue from recreational radar equipment.

I continue to belive the higher the better, not for saftey but equipment performance.