Hi,
I'm interested in building and experimenting with a CW-Radar built from typical wifi-components found in everyday devices, like WLAN-Cards for Laptops, of which I have a bunch lying around.
Of particular interest for me is the application as a navigation-radar at sea (the river Elbe and the Baltic Sea to be precise) with a transmit-power of about 5W (the E-Class for HAM-Radio operators in Germany permits 5W PEP) and using "Cantennas" or patch-antennas as transmit and receive-antennas.
Unfortunately, I haven't found anything about the regulations regarding operating a CW-transmitter with a bandwidth of about 500 kHz to 1 MHz. Would is be permitted to operate such a device in the 13cm band? And if so, are there portions of the band that cannot be used? I figure that the area allocated to amateur satellites would suffer the least impact, as satellites are up in the sky and this radar-device would scan the horizon at a height of about 4 meters, which means the signal would be rejected by antennas directed at satellites.
If that isn't the case, please educate me
Disclaimer: I haven't applied for a HAM-Radio license yet, but would do so before starting to operate any transmitters of course.
Thx