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- From: ingram@hotair.enet.dec.com (Larry J. Ingram)
- Subject: Re: Radar Detectors, and Radar Detector Detectors
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.231601.5690@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:10:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.204831.28487@news.columbia.edu>, gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes...
- >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.
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- A very simple way that cops "detect" radar detectors is to occasionally
- turn on their radar while driving down the highway. The officer
- simply looks for the car(s) whose brake lights suddenly come on.
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- Larry
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