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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!corton!vogon!vogon!philip
- From: philip@vogon.cetia.fr (Philip Peake)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Radar Detectors, and Radar Detector Detectors
- Keywords: Radar
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.084334.9931@cetia.fr>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 08:43:34 GMT
- References: <92Jul23.162259edt.176@orasis.vis.toronto.edu> <1992Jul23.204831.28487@news.columbia.edu> <1992Jul27.222258.20211@b30.ingr.com> <1992Jul28.081721.7020@apricot.co.uk>
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- Reply-To: philip@vogon.cetia.fr (Philip Peake)
- Organization: CETIA, France
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- In article <1992Jul28.081721.7020@apricot.co.uk>, marcusj@apricot.co.uk (Marcus Jenkins) writes:
- |>
- |> I understand, and this may well be completely apocryphal rumour, that
- |> British TV's must emit a *minimum* amount of IF specifically so they
- |> can be detected by detector vans. I understand that there are ways
- |> (that have been printed in passim amateur electonics magazines) to
- |> 'shut your TV' up. I assume these involve shielding (baking foil) around
- |> the inside of the rear case of the receiver and inserting a high pass
- |> filter in your antenna feed. Has anybody got some more concrete info-
- |> rmation on this?
-
- This is incorrect.
- Older TV's *HAD* to have a foil screen - no longer present on most
- of the imported junk.
-
- The detector vans pick up the line-frequency (15.625 KHz), not IF frequencies.
- That is the reason for the monsterous antenna on the top of the van - it is
- tuned to 15.625 KHz !
-
- They can tell which channel you are watching by checking which transmission
- the line frequency is synchronised to.
-
- The *only* way to detect colour TV is to look for the 4.433625 MHz
- colour sub-carrier - it may or may not be possible to detect this
- at more than a few feet - it is not reliable.
-
- It isn't realistically possible to "shut up your telly", since most of the
- radiation comes through the screen - you could wrap foil around this too,
- but it would sort of defeat the object ... To completely stop the radiation,
- you would need magnetic screening too - a simple foil lining will stop
- the electric component, but the big fat magnetic component will go
- through with no problem.
-
- Philip
-