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  2. Radar beacon - Wikipedia

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    Radar beacon. Racon signal as seen on a radar screen. This beacon receives using sidelobe suppression and transmits the letter "Q" in Morse code near Boston Harbor (Nahant) 17 January 1985. Radar beacon (short: racon) is – according to article 1.103 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR) [1 ...

  3. List of observatory codes - Wikipedia

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    New Horizons KBO Search-Subaru 267: New Horizons KBO Search with the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope: HI: New Horizons KBO Search-CFHT 268: New Horizons KBO Search with the Magellan II (Clay) telescope: Af: New Horizons KBO Search-Magellan/Clay 269: New Horizons KBO Search with the Magellan I (Baade) telescope: Af: New Horizons KBO Search ...

  4. Ray J - Wikipedia

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    William Ray Norwood Jr. (born January 17, 1981), [1] known professionally as Ray J, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, television personality, and actor. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Carson, California, he is the younger brother of singer and actress Brandy Norwood. [3] In January 2017, he competed in the nineteenth season of ...

  5. Laser designator - Wikipedia

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    A laser designator is a laser light source which is used to designate a target. Laser designators provide targeting for laser-guided bombs, missiles, or precision artillery munitions, such as the Paveway series of bombs, AGM-114 Hellfire, or the M712 Copperhead round, respectively. When a target is marked by a designator, the beam is invisible ...

  6. Myers–Briggs Type Indicator - Wikipedia

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    The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator ( MBTI) is a pseudoscientific [1] [2] self-report questionnaire that claims to indicate differing "psychological types" (often commonly called "personality types"). The test assigns a binary value to each of four categories: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, and judging or ...

  7. AN/TPQ-37 Firefinder radar - Wikipedia

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    The AN/TPQ-37 is an electronically steered radar, meaning the radar does not actually move while in operation. The radar scans a 90-degree sector for incoming rocket, artillery and mortar fire. Upon detecting a possible incoming round, the system verifies the contact before initiating a track sequence, continuing to search for new targets.

  8. Lidar - Wikipedia

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    Lidar ( / ˈlaɪdɑːr /, also LIDAR, LiDAR or LADAR, an acronym of "light detection and ranging" [1] or "laser imaging, detection, and ranging" [2]) is a method for determining ranges by targeting an object or a surface with a laser and measuring the time for the reflected light to return to the receiver.

  9. List decoding - Wikipedia

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    The codes that they are given are called folded Reed-Solomon codes which are nothing but plain Reed-Solomon codes but viewed as a code over a larger alphabet by careful bundling of codeword symbols. Because of their ubiquity and the nice algebraic properties they possess, list-decoding algorithms for Reed–Solomon codes were a main focus of ...