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- From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
- Subject: Re: Passport Wideband Radar Detectors
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.223652.24869@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 22:36:52 GMT
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- glaird@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Gordon Laird) writes:
-
-
- > 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.
-
-
- I haven't any experimental data to back this up, but I bet there's a
- sidelobe from the radar antenna that points pretty near down the road
- and I doubt its better than 25dB down from the main lobe. (The next
- time I see that damn truck I'll go back to the lab and get a decent
- spectrum analyzer to have a look)!
-
- Since photo radar is used here in Pasadena only on surface streets
- with low speed limits, you don't need the same range as on the
- highways where you are going twice as fast.
- --
- Jon Hacker
- Caltech, Pasadena CA
- hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
-