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- Newsgroups: alt.2600
- Subject: Jamming Police Radar
- Date: Sun Jun 12 21:35:23 1994
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- >>Has anyone ever successfully jammed a microwave or laser gun?
-
- > I seem to recall a device from a few years back that emitted microwave
- > were shifted just right in the car's forward direction to make the car
- > like it was always going 55, or whatever you dialed in for it. It mus
- > have had some kind of linkage for the speedometer, or you just told it
- > your actual speed and then your "measured" speed.
-
- Simple. You present the microwave signal with a return LARGER than the
- return of your car... the gun will TRY to lock onto IT, instead of you.
- (this is in fact how they work, they attempt to lock onto the strongest
- signal return avail)
-
- Now, how DO you present a LARGER target than your car? Well, we're
- talking microwaves here, not visible light ;)
-
- I'm sure that most folks in here have heard of "chaff", the radar
- reflective aluminum strips used to fool missile radar ... they WORK by
- being cut to a precise size ... the OPTIMUM size for reflectivity of a
- certain wavelength, thus they return a larger signal than a massive jet
- fighter, even though they are fractions of an inch in size.
-
- Now, you might ask "so... I've presented the radar with a target that
- returns a larger reflection than my car... but it's MOVING along WITH
- me, an will accurately reflect my speed on the gun" ...
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- Ahhh, but it is NOT mounted to your car; police radar needs for a
- target's speed to be relatively CONSTANT before it locks on, and
- displays a speed reading, thus you must make the speed of your "chaff"
- change rapidly ... by mounting it on a speaker behind the grill of your
- car.
-
- You drive the speaker with audio noise, the chaff on the cone vibrates,
- the police radar sees the chaff, and NOT you, viola; it can't lock on,
- and the speed display remains blank.
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- Jkay@Vnet.Net
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- * Where's yer PANTS, BOY?!
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