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- From: glaird@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Gordon Laird)
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:54:08 GMT
- Subject: Re: Passport Wideband Radar Detectors
- Message-ID: <51300029@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
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- References: <1992Jul17.164644.19865@trantor.harris-atd.com>
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- All this talk about Ka leads me to reply.
- It is my understanging that Ka is only used with Photo Radar. It is only
- used in low power applications because of the characteristics of Photo
- Radar. The beam is projected at a steep angle, across traffic, imediately
- in the vicinity of the Photo Radar unit. Because of this, there is little
- scatter, and no projection of the beam any meaningful distance down the
- road way.
- The end result is, even if you were able to detect Ka, by the time you
- could react to any signal you recieved, you would be staring at the smiling
- face of the cop operating the unit, who could count the lashes on your
- eye lids.
-