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- From: mikesteg@syclone.detroit.sgi.com (Mike Stegbauer)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
- Subject: Re: Police transmitter detectors
- Keywords: Radar
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.211004.23365@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:10:04 GMT
- Article-I.D.: odin.1993Jan26.211004.23365
- References: <1508@fozzy.UUCP> <1993Jan25.194239.23031@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Reply-To: mikesteg@syclone.detroit.sgi.com (Mike Stegbauer)
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- In article <1993Jan25.194239.23031@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, rjwade@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Wade) writes:
- |> In article <1508@fozzy.UUCP> jcross@aud.alcatel.com writes:
- |> >Several years ago, I used to see adds for a little box folks were
- |> >selling that would detect any police in a 2~3 mile range. It
- |> >worked on the simple priciple that the highway patrol folks had
- |> >a radio transmiter in their cars that they left on most~all the
- |> >time. I don't recall why the X-mit device existed or why it was left
- |> >on, but that's not really important. What is important is, does
- |> >anyone know if & where you can get on of these nifty little things?
- |> >I'm sure someone could make one (if they know the proper frequences)
- |> >but I'm not all that into electronics (try to stay w/ Software.)
- |> >Are they still effective or did the cops just start switching off
- |> >the transmitter once they realized what they were doing.
- |> >
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- Why wouldn't you just transmit the "I'm a stolen lojack vehicle" signal?
- Then you'd know where all the cops were.
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