Actress | Producer | Soundtrack. Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Opal Marguerite (Catledge), a homemaker, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a part-time sporting goods company representative and farmer with a 250 acre farm. She is the youngest of seven children.
radar definition. A method of finding the position and velocity of an object by bouncing a radio wave off it and analyzing the reflected wave. Radar is an acronym for radio detection and ranging. Note: Police use radar techniques to determine the speed of automobiles.
Another 'electronic eye' was the ship's radar. The radar antenna was mounted high on the mast, about 120-150 feet above the water. Radar sends out a ping and listens for an echo, very similar to how sonar works. The primary difference with radar, is that it can see surface craft (ships and submarines which are sailing on the surface). The radar could see about 12 miles.