Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!phil From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Anti-shoplifting devices Message-ID: <1991May9.191103.25998@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 9 May 91 19:11:03 GMT References: <050691.224256WDBURNS%MTUS5.BITNET> <19934@slice.ooc.uva.nl> <1991May9.135021.22131@sparrms.ists.ca> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 14 The ones used in a local store are not angled, they are square. The layers are separated, but there is an indentation at a couple of points to "connect" the metallic layers. They form a capacitor and inductor (the spiraling metal lines). I have no idea what the frequency is. I don't have a generator to set this with. There are several frequency ranges the FCC has authorized for motion detectors. -- /***************************************************************************\ / Phil Howard -- KA9WGN -- phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu | Guns don't aim guns at \ \ Lietuva laisva -- Brivu Latviju -- Eesti vabaks | people; CRIMINALS do!! / \***************************************************************************/