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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Radar gun zapper: fact or fiction?
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Date: 30 Dec 89 02:50:04 GMT
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A reasonably large magnetron feeding a reasonably large antenna on the
front of your car, wired up to a bank of capacitors charged by an
inverter from the car battery, might be able to emit a pulse of 10 GHz
or 24 GHz of sufficient magnitude to blow the mixer diode in the typical
cop radar to glory-be.  You'd clearly want to have it trigger off the
radar detector mounted next to it, but shielded from it in some way.

I've often contemplated building something like this, but since the
local flic have only got 7 radar units in a town of over 2 million
inhabitants, why bother?

A 24GHz autolaunch homing missile with HEAT warhead would be much more
effective.  Just mount them in disguised trash containers and deploy
them on busy streets....  Come to think of it, that's overkill.  Just an
Estes rocket with smoke cannister is sufficient.  After all, you only
want to scare them, not put craters in the sidewalk.

Yes, I'm kidding.
		- Brian