alt Hacker NewsI am searching for (part-time) business partners who want to pursue a grant (or find a customer) to develop and build a passive radar system.
We know of such grants and customers, we need motivated people to help us get the grant.
It is mostly a computational software problem that needs a cheap supercomputer, we believe we are experts at that [1].
We already have two test area's where we are not restricted by laws: the Ukraine battlefield (brimming wit jammers and radar) and a radio silence area LOFAR receiver next to a military low fly zone near a large nature reserve and sea.
We hope to find people through Hacker News who can help us get the funding. Maybe even apply at YC.
Please contact me through my HN profile.
See my other comment below on how passive radar could become a game changer (that got downvoted just because I mentioned it here).
Some nice graphics related to passive radar:
[1] Cheap Wafer Scale Integration Supercomputer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbqKClBwFwI
[2] How The U.S. Will Track EVERY Vehicle from Space: SAR GMTI/AMTI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GTpBMPjjFc
[3] The Insane Engineering of Starlink V3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6veU66z2TQ
There is no rocket science here. Every radar has at least one midrange FPGA inside. Every small radar company at least two FPGA devs like me to minimize bus factor.
Regarding passive radar it is nice system in theory. In practical setup it’s not mobile and location bound. Every location has different RF radiation environment. Since transmission is not controlled the reception (and detection) can’t be optimized for anything.