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- From: tcs@ll.mit.edu (Tom Sefranek)
- Subject: Re: Radar detectors
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.174259.27794@ll.mit.edu>
- Sender: tcs@ll.mit.edu (Tom Sefranek)
- Reply-To: tcs@ll.mit.edu (Tom Sefranek)
- Organization: "Group 47"
- References: <1992Jul28.164032.854@yvax.byu.edu> <bs5e8t.1na@wang.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 17:42:59 GMT
- In: article <bs5e8t.1na@wang.com>, dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes:
- |>: martin@yvax.byu.edu writes:
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- |>
- |>
- |> >I heard about a device that would 'confuse' radars making them think
- |> >that the car is going at lower speed; does anyone know anything about
- |> >this?.
- |>
- |> There was a gadget on the market briefly around 10 years ago that
- |> did this - it transmitted a modulated 10.525 GHz signal with the
- |> modulation freq set by a knob calibrated in MPH (jeeze!) but later
- |> produced with the calibration in Hz. It required a ham radio license
- |> to operate it. I haven't seen this thing on the market in a long time.
- |>
- |> There was an article in one of the hobby electronics magazines (Pop. Elec.,
- |> etc.) at roughly the same time that used a coffee can as the cavity,
- |> and passively reflected the radar signal with some new modulation on
- |> top of it (that is, any speed you select).
- |>
- |> I wish I had more details about issue number, manufacturers, etc., but
- |> you might try one of those online magazine database services and look
- |> for some of the keywords that would apply.
- |>
- |> Hope this helps!
- |>
- |> Dave
- |>
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-
- Dave,
- Ask a ham, there are severaly at Wang. Your posting linking the HAM
- band 10 ghz with radar is BOGUS!!! We don't do pulse mode, we don't do 10.525G.
- And we certainly wouldn't be involved with defeating the police radar.
-
- Come join us, don't guess!
-
- Tom
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