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- From: m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Radar detectors
- Message-ID: <1480@tnc.UUCP>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 11:48:24 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.164032.854@yvax.byu.edu> <bs5e8t.1na@wang.com>
- Reply-To: m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY)
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- Also, about fifteen years ago, some CalTech students with nothing
- better to do designed a device that attached to a car radio antenna.
- This device was a rotating corner reflector, driven by the motion of
- the vehicle against the surrounding air. The net result was, the
- faster you drove, the slower the radar gun showed you were traveling.
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- The downside was, all things being equal, this only worked in one
- direction, with the opposite effect from the opposite direction, so a
- trooper who didn't believe the radar gun and tried it again on your
- now receding vehicle -- oh, brother!
-
- Frank Ney N4ZHG EMT-P LPVa NRA ILA GOA CCRTKBA "M-O-U-S-E"
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