Measuring speed of a passing vehicle

[G8RPI]

Hi,
another method that is used is to have a IR beacon on each bike (different code for each bike) and decode that as it goes by, The typical data rate (38Khz) might give you accuracy problems though.
Hi Dwayne, Yes 760MPH is around the speed of sound, It was broken on 15th October 1997 on the Black Rock desert in Nevada by a British team using a twin Jet powered car - Thrust SSC. I was on the team, see,
http://www.thrustssc.com/thrustssc/Team/team.html
There were a couple of PIC's on board, but no PBP!

Robert G8RPI.

[Dwayne]

Hello Robert!

Robert

Hi Dwayne, Yes 760MPH is around the speed of sound, It was broken on 15th October 1997 on the Black Rock desert in Nevada by a British team using a twin Jet powered car - Thrust SSC. I was on the team, see,
http://www.thrustssc.com/thrustssc/Team/team.html
There were a couple of PIC's on board, but no PBP!

Thanks fanastic!...Congradulations...The odds of meeting someone from such a team on a PIC board in UK??? I think I am going to play the lottery now...Thanks for the fabulous link.

I notice you had "Micro Pilots". Ultralights? I thought I saw the wingtip if a flying trike. Alls I can say is...Congradulations, and many more victories for you and your team to come!

I don't know how long you have been a ham, but There may have been a chance, that we have communicated to each other over the years... Been a Extra Class for 30 years.

Dwayne