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- From: lmcstst@noah.ericsson.se (Stamos Stamos)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Quick radar question about traffic ticket
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.163244.3329@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 16:32:44 GMT
- References: <etc.> <Bx7KBI.82u@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Nov4.215533.2792@erg.sri.com>
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- >
- >That reminds me of an amusing idea a friend of mine had (which is
- >impractical because of the size of reflector needed to affect
- >microwaves): Build two of those little anamometers (sp? the thing you
- >measure wind speed with) with metal corner reflectors on them, and
- >mount them on your car, one in front and one in back, such that the
- >corner reflectors spin away from the front and back (respectively). In
- >principle, the corner reflectors would return a huge signal relative
- >to the car, but moving slower. This is hard to see without a hand
- >drawn picture (I tried ASCII graphics, to no avail), but it's amusing.
- >
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- A bike mag in the UK had the same idea a few years ago.
- There idea was to insert these radar reflectors (usely seen hanging around
- the top of sailboat masts) in the wheel rims.
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- Stamos <lmcstst@noah.ericsson.se> ZZR11 Ellas
- Ericsson, Cellular Design
- Montreal, Canada.
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