I have an dedicated Icom aircraft radio and offten hear reports of laser 
beams pointing at aircraft, like you said it does not take long for them to 
be found.
also the ATIS beacons give reports of laser usage to pilots on approach.
cheers

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Gammon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: Speaking of Laser Beams


> Phil, have you heard about the people that have been pointing
> green lasers at airliners and cop choppers? Seems like they get
> caught almost all the time.  I mean a laser as you know is a
> pinpoint of light, all you need is a GPS position and you
> probably will catch the perp if he or she is not mobile.  Jim
> WA6EKS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date sent: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:36:14 -0700
> Subject: Speaking of Laser Beams
>
> I was rooting around in the online NLS library the other day for
> something
> new to read.  I have about a dozen books on my phone I am
> interested in
> reading and about two dozen in my wish list waiting to be
> downloaded to my
> iPhone when I am ready.  I stumbled on a book called What is a
> Laser.  It
> was, and is, just 37 minutes long and was recorded back in 1983
> but if you
> want a grade school level of how lasers work, it is a great read.
> Besides,
> grade school is about my level at my advanced age.  Even then, I
> didn't
> understand everything.  And to think they could measure the space
> between
> atoms back then and a laser, even back then, could drill a
> perfect hole in a
> human hair.  If you still have hair, that is.  In my case, they'd
> have to
> use my Abraham Lincoln beard.  Right up front, this little book
> said, if you
> turned on all the light bulbs in the world at the same time, it
> still
> wouldn't equal the output of the earliest of lasers.  Don't burn
> yourself.
> Now if the laser could just grow hair.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
>
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