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From: wiz@xroads.UUCP (Mike Carter)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Radar Detector Detectors
Keywords: COuntering the Counter-countermeasures
Message-ID: <774@xroads.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 89 05:41:43 GMT
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Organization: Crossroads, Phoenix, Az
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Hmm. The Ontario police department must be feeling a budget crunch.
While I'm skeptical that a resonant cavity "Grid-dip" scan would
come anywhere near being effective (lookit all those nice cavities on
radiator grilles) the spectrum search for local oscillators
operating near the typical radar detector frequency would.
I wonder if there's a method to fake those out by jamming the spectrum
full of high energy radio transmission...say in the 800MHZ range?
Would a cellular phone transmitter start the lights on these detectors?
My Mobile 2M FM Xmtr sets off my Radar Detector if it's on high power.
 
In Australia during the 60's, the local government required a license
for T.V. reception. They would be seen driving up and down streets in
a white van with a loop antenna searching for houses with receivers
using the same principles and confiscate the T.V is the owner(s) refused
to cough up the price of a fine + a license. 
[ We were visited...my recently arrived from the States parents had no idea
  about the license bit ]

Has anyone devised an effective method to "jam" the radar detector detectors?
 
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