The Mysterious ‘Gain’ Knob
Most likely your radar has an unfortunately mislabeled control on it somewhere marked “GAIN.” Confusion results from the word’s etymology tracing to an old, old Germanic word having to do with the ratio of output to input (or maybe input to output). In modern times it’s become a word radar engineers...
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