Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Radar gun zapper: fact or fiction?
Message-ID: <1989Dec30.221555.29156@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <74719@psuecl.bitnet> <1198@ariel.unm.edu> <10657@ucsd.Edu> <74896@psuecl.bitnet> <10781@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 89 22:15:55 GMT

In article <10781@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> sampson@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Steve Sampson) writes:
>... By the way, the next issue of Radio-Electronics claims to have
>a radar detector tester.  Oh no...  These will invariably end up on the
>turnpike and freeways with the mental midgets turning them on at various times
>to watch your radar detector lights...

With any luck the thing will have a sufficiently short range that this won't
work.  I think the FCC might object otherwise.  When radar detectors first
became popular, various police agencies were quite interested in putting
permanent microwave emitters at strategic locations, to minimize usefulness
of the detectors and generally slow down the traffic.  The FCC refused to
license such transmitters.
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