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From: brian@ucsd.EDU (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Radar detection
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Date: 18 Jan 89 11:40:03 GMT
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Reply-To: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
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A while ago it was popular to make a radar detector out of a simple
high-pass/antenna (horn/waveguide or small dipole array), a detector
diode, and some DC amplification.  The idea was that there wasn't much
else on the road that would provide RF energy at those microwave
frequencies, so it had to be radar.  It worked, sort of.

The problem was that these were so numb that Le Flic would be writing
you the ticket before the detector triggered.  Nice toy, but not very
useful.

Buy an Escort.
		- Brian