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From: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
Newsgroups: rec.autos,sci.electronics,misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (Ka band) ...
Keywords: radar, cops, Ka, X, K
Message-ID: <4427@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 14 Feb 89 19:35:12 GMT
References: <603@icus.islp.ny.us> <7944@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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In article <7944@netnews.upenn.edu> depolo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Jeff DePolo) writes:
:In article <603@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.UUCP writes:
:>Well .. I've been checking around for a radar detector, and one saleswoman
:>mentioned to me something they are supposibly testing in NY State and Texas.
:>It's the Ka-band.  I've heard they've installed robot type radar units that
:>will clock your car using the Ka Band radar, and then photograph the
:>lenny@icus.islp.ny.us      Telex; 154232428 ICUS         [h] +1 (516) 968-8576
:
:Ka band has been authorized by the FCC for speed measurement use.  However,
:the photo radar units that you are talking about haven't actually been
:imployed anywhere in the US yet.  They are being tested in two states
:(California, and I believe New Mexico), but they aren't been used in
:actual speed traps.  The Ka detectors (currently only made by Bel) are
:							--- Jeff
They have been in use in Pasadena for more than 6 months, and aside
from some procedural problems which got most of the very first tickets
thrown out, the courts have accepted them.  Pasadena has just
installed photo units at an interesction that monitors red light
runners and of course takes their picture.

Lee

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