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Old 31st Mar 2014, 19:49
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Lemain
 
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The detection range of the TPL looking for a 37.5kHz ULB is 1730 meters when aiming for a 90% reliability of detection.
The TPL is a sort of torpedo-shaped device. Is the 1730m looking along the front centreline, or what? If you think of the search as needing a 'lawn-mower' - i.e. searching in strips - then we'd need to know the strip width and, in hilly terrain, the sensitivity in the vertical axis.
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