Xref: utzoo rec.autos.driving:5692 sci.electronics:21090 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu!khan From: khan@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Coleman) Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving,sci.electronics Subject: Re: A New Approach to Radar Detection Message-ID: Date: 22 Jun 91 16:04:34 GMT Article-I.D.: mrcnext.khan.677606674 References: <1991Jun18.222217.7455@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <8641@awdprime.UUCP> <1991Jun20.161636.29034@rice.edu> <1991Jun20.162417.29255@rice.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 27 frank@snowy.rice.edu (Franklin Tae-Sung Kang) writes: >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 varies from state to state and area to area. For a list of frequencies which are used where you live, stop by your nearest Radio Shaft and pick up a copy of the Police Call book. It lists all the frequencies for a 4-state area. >It sounds like >it would be relatively easy to make. Or you could buy a portable scanner for your car. In some states this is illegal, however. -- Scott Coleman tmkk@uiuc.edu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The military particularly liked Prodigy because the censorship came for free." - Andrew Grove on the use of email services to send mail to troops in the gulf