CHRS: IBMPC 2 CODEPAGE: 437 MSGID: 240:244/116 2a2c859b REPLY: 240:44/0 19a4998f PID: FDAPX/w 1.12a UnReg(201) 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 --- * Origin: Kent Beekeeper Beenet Point (240:244/116)