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- From: dave@eram.esi.COM.AU (Dave Horsfall)
- Newsgroups: aus.radio
- Subject: Re: Radar
- Message-ID: <1736@eram.esi.COM.AU>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 23:56:21 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.222904.15857@runx.oz.au> <1992Nov11.210354.3248@runx.oz.au> <1992Nov13.012925.28583@fawlty.towers.oz.au>
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- In article <1992Nov13.012925.28583@fawlty.towers.oz.au>,
- steve@fawlty.towers.oz.au (Steve Blanche) writes:
-
- | It does raise the question, why use a radar detector ? all it does
- | is tell you, that you have been seen, its a fair bet that if your
- | detector has detected a radar unit, that the radar unit has already
- | seen you and computed your speed, so your only choice is to prepare
- | to stop, or do a hand brake U turn and try and hope they didnt see,
- | which is unlikely with a speed camera.
-
- Inverse-square law, Steve... I only have to detect a relatively strong
- transmitter. The police have to detect a much weaker reflection, so I
- get to see them before they see me.
-
- | The other problem, is they false trigger all the time, especially
- | in industrial areas from lots of microwave alarm systems, so you
- | either become paranoid for every time it false triggers, or you
- | become oblivious to the detector, until its too late.
-
- For the old X-band sets, this is true. However, every alert I've had
- on K-band has been authentic. I used to do a lot of microwave propagation
- studies, back when I was driving a lot...
-
- | it becomes easy to pick where they can and cannot operate a radar,
- | just ask a cop, they have guidelines on where to run it.
-
- Quite so, but that doesn't stop the odd maverick.
-
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