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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: rec.autos,sci.electronics,misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (Ka band)
Keywords: radar, cops, Ka, X, K
Message-ID: <3935@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 89 18:54:47 GMT
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In article <1772@mcgp1.UUCP> jgo@mcgp1.UUCP (John Opalko, N7KBT) writes:
}In article <1580@anasaz.UUCP>, john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore) writes:
}> Even nastier, the cameras work with infrared strobes and film
}> and are run at night, when it is much harder to spot the vehicle
}> holding the radar.
}
}So, you cover your plates with a material that's transparent to visible
}light (so you're legal) but opaque to I/R.

In California, at least, it's illegal to cover your plates with
_anything_, transparent or not.

Also, some of the radar units here aren't mounted on vehicles.  They're on
permanent posts and traffic signals, instead.  They're easy to miss, if
you're new to the neighborhood (and the boxes are bullet proof, if you're
not (-: ).

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