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- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Radar Detectors, and Radar Detector Detectors
- Keywords: Radar
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.235338.7270@panix.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 23:53:38 GMT
- References: <92Jul23.162259edt.176@orasis.vis.toronto.edu>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
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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?
-
- They detect the local oscillator in the radar detector, which usually
- leaks enough stray radiation that it can be picked up within a few
- hundred feet.
-
- Remember the Radio Shack detectors that gave off so much stray RF
- they triggered OTHER radar detectors? Remember when radar detectors had
- "Radio Shack filters" to combat the result of this poor engineering?
-
- > Further, is it possible to detect radar detector detectors?
-
- No, but it's possible to detect radar detector detector detectors :-)
-
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