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Old 25th June 2010 | 06:37
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Captain Smithy
 
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A CW Radar Altimeter can achieve much better accuracy than if a pulsed signal was used. Not exactly sure why but I think it's due to doppler effect of the CW signal.

That said I wasn't aware of such a thing as a pulsed Radalt. I thought CW was standard?

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