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- From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Subject: Re: Radar Detectors, and Radar Detector Detectors
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.204831.28487@news.columbia.edu>
- Keywords: Radar
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- Reply-To: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <92Jul23.162259edt.176@orasis.vis.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:48:31 GMT
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- In article <92Jul23.162259edt.176@orasis.vis.toronto.edu> oliverb@vis.toronto.edu (Oliver Bengtsson) writes:
- > Could someone out there please tell me how a radar detector detector
- >works? I thought that a radar detector was a passive device, nothing more
- >than a receiver tuned into detect a certain radio frequency used in radar
- >guns. If this is the case, how can they be detected?
-
- All receivers work by resonance, and this resonance can be detected with
- the appropriate equipment.
-
- The BBC does this in the UK with detector vans. I remember when I was a kid
- and someone told me that in England you need to have a license to own a TV
- set, and I said, "Oh gimme a break. What do they do, drive around in little
- vans to see who's paid their TV bill?" And it wasn't until I went there
- for the first time that I learned that that's exactly what they do!
-
- > Further, is it possible to detect radar detector detectors?
-
- I'm sure it is....maybe we'll soon have combination radar detectors and
- radar detector detector detectors. The cops will, of course, be
- equipped with radar, radar detector detectors, and radar detector detector
- detector detectors.
-
-
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- Gabe Wiener - Columbia Univ. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings
- gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu to be seriously considered as a means of
- N2GPZ in ham radio circles communication. The device is inherently of
- 72355,1226 on CI$ no value to us." -Western Union memo, 1877
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