A seven-part YouTube series in which the presenter walks through building a radar system capable of tracking drones, including receiver hardware and signal processing.

Commenters point to it as a practical starting point for hands-on passive radar, supplying receiver data and a route into the underlying theory.

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1. Recommendsmorphle2026in “How Passive Radar Works”

   You can start with the radar receiver data from this 7 part DIY radar course.

   Halfway in the video he mentions the MIT (or Stanford) course of a professor who recently died. That course is online and has a lot of documentation

   Build Your Own Drone Tracking Radar: Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igrN_wd_g74&t=292s

   You can contact me if you want more guidance. Radar was developed during the last two years of WOII, mainly in Boston at MIT and hundreds of companies each building a radar, most were deployed months later to win the war. Development after the war shifted to Silicon Valley, founding Silicon valley and the later chip and software startups decades later.

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