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  BL> Hi:
 
 BL> The name is Joe Riley in England.  Just got an e-mail.  This
 BL> system is not commercially available nor affordable for most
 BL> individuals.
 
 BL> The Canadian's have had some success with hand-held radar
 BL> guns used to find people trapped in an avalanch.  Still
 BL> pricey at @$7000 for a full system.
 BL> Cheap if  you are the one buried under the snow.  Not so
 BL> cheap for tracking
 BL> bees.
 
 BL> Jerry
 BL> Jerry J. Bromenshenk, Ph.D.
 BL> Director, DOE/EPSCoR & Montana Organization for Research in
 BL> Energy The University of Montana-Missoula
 BL> Missoula, MT  59812-1002
 BL> E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
 BL> Tel:  406-243-5648
 BL> Fax:  406-243-4184
Hallo Jerry,
 
I don't follow the thread of this mail, but I have attended two very good
lectures last year and the year before on Radar Tracking of Bumble and
honeybees.
Scientists at IHR Rothampstead in England have been conducting research on
pollination by particularly bumble bees, In order to track the bees the
researchers have attached a diode to the bee's thorax, this acts as an atennae
which receives a signal from a radar dish of given size transmitting at a given
n cycles/second, the signal bounces off the antennae and is received back by a
smaller dish at half the transmission cycles, the returned signal is plotted by
computer to give a position up to a maximum of one kilometer, the plot then
shows where the bee has travelled. The system has been modified to use only one
dish to transmit and receive back the signals. The work continues this year and
the results will be published. Dr,. Julia Osborne is the researcher in this
program. There is an Email address. The web url for IHR Rothampstead is
http://www.res.bbsrc.ac.uk/entnem this is the Varroa hub with many links and
the Email address you will need to contact Dr. Osborne.
From the Garden of England
best wishes Peter Hutton
 
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 * Origin: Kent Beekeeper Beenet Point (240:244/116)