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 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....

Many years ago, someone who claimed knowledge suggested that if you stood beyond the "sweep" of the open array, you're safe. YMMV.

For years I often wondered about ship radar in the Welland Canal when the ship enter the lock up bound the radar is at coping level then it raises 45’ the lines men are walking beside the ship to bring up there lines. The only difference to day is they must keep radar under six miles while transiting canal as it will screw up the lock computers. what does that tell you?
As of five years ago, they laid of 150 Linesmen as they now have Hands Free Mooring Machines that tie up ships

MythBusters did a segment on this years ago.
Something to the effect of hanging a turkey directly in front of the scanner.
If I remember the results were completely negative

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?

Maybe not, but it may warm your skin and your eyes:

Google:

Marine Radar Radiation
Marine radar systems operate in the high radio frequency (RF) and microwave range. Unlike X-rays and nuclear radiation the emissions from marine radar are
non-ionizing
radiation and do not penetrate the human body but can cause heating of the surface, particularly of the skin and eyes (cornea).

Mod Edit: remark removed.
Sounds like the lady who put her wet cat in the microwave to dry it..

From my RADARMAN days in the Navy. Surface ship radar, if it's rotating you can't get close enough - the scanner will knock you over the side. . . Now the air search & height-finder radars, or even the TALOS missile radars-those could be a beast. Especially the TALOS radars. Frisbee a frozen steak up through the beam, and the steak would hit the deck medium-well. Personally saw a demo. Hit the deck sizzling & the Fire Controlmen passed out forks to eat it. . . LOL

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.

Omni-direction, non-Pulsed, non-phased array eq: Pt/4*Pi*r^2 :: Pt power(cont) transmitted; Pi, 3.14; r distance in meters.

60Kw at 10M: 60,000/4*3.24*10*10 = 47.8 watts at 33 feet.

25Kw at 200M: 25,000/4*3.14*40,000 = 0.0497 watts at 660 feet. (edited, to correct, I made a stupid math error)

If anyone wants the pulsed, an-isotropic, phased array equation done, I charge for that. Just consider, it'll be some small fraction of the above. This is with a generic S/N ratio of about 30:1, which could be common in and around a small marina.

Long ago, and far away I help install some antenna and radars in southern Africa. The monkeys would often sleep in the antenna array when they were on standby because it was warm. When we turned up the watts, the monkeys would fry, and some jackwad(me) had to go up and rake the dead monkeys from the antenna array. Good times.