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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Detecting Radar Detectors
Message-ID: <16895@ucsd.Edu>
Date: 6 Aug 90 21:45:11 GMT
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In article <2860@nems.dt.navy.mil> downin@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Dave Downin) writes:
>On the subject of radar detectors, is there some relatively inexpensive
>and fairly easy way to build a radar gun jammer that could opperate
>through your stereo or cb antenna?

No.

If you want to use your CB whip to beat le flic senseless, that'd work.
I assume you aren't interested in methods involving direct physical
assault.

But if you want electronic methods, no, radar jammers of the kind that
would simply prevent speeding from being detected are sophisticated
enough that you probably couldn't build it, and it wouldn't use your
stereo or CB whip anyway - you'd need a horn or dish pointed at the
cop's radar gun, and that's not likely to be inconspicuous.

The big rotating propeller on the front of the car doesn't work
either, despite popular myth.

If you want to avoid getting tagged by radar, drive a mostly plastic car
with the radiator and firewall slanted downward.  That reduces the radar
aperture of your vehicle (i.e., how well it shows up on radar) and makes
it likely the cop will get a reading off someone else.

If you're alone on the road, you're nicked, cobber.

Flames about driving faster than someone else's concept of the rate of
progression at which you magically turn from safe driver to homicidal
maniac will be noted, logged, and ignored.
	- Brian