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From: dmt@PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Police-radar countermeasures (and rockets)
Message-ID: <4906@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>
Date: 2 Aug 89 20:34:44 GMT
References: <414@ctycal.UUCP> <19212@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>
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In article <19212@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> max@ee.cornell.edu  (Max Hauser) writes:
.If you've been in metropolitan England you may well have noticed the
.receiver-detecting crews going around looking for unlicensed (and
.therefore untaxed) TV receivers (yes, receivers).  They used the same
.principle, detecting the LO, in what is surely a much more cluttered
.electromagnetic environment than the highway police encounter.  (I don't
.know if they still do this, but in 1972 the English TV-detector crews
.dressed in exotic uniforms and helmets like alien invaders from some
.low-budget Hammer-Studios film, or an episode of _The Avengers_).
.
There was a Monty Python skit to parody this.
The subject was pets (possibly about a license for a pet fish)
and the salesman (John Cleese) was talking about the "cat detector van"
which could detect a purr from quite a distance away.


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