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From: frank@snowy.rice.edu (Franklin Tae-Sung Kang)
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Subject: Re: A New Approach to Radar Detection
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Date: 20 Jun 91 16:24:17 GMT
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In article <8641@awdprime.UUCP> daryl@vixen.Berkeley.EDU () writes:

>A couple of years ago, I saw an ad in Car & Driver (or one of the others)
>that offered a detector which tuned in to the repeater frequencies that
>the car radios in police cars use to forward received transmissions to
>the officer's portable walkie-talkie.

Does anyone know the frequencies of this broadcast?  It sounds like
it would be relatively easy to make.  Perhaps this is the CHiPs
detector advertised in the back of C&D all the time.

Also, does anyone truly know the range of these broadcasts?

Frank