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From: peg@psuecl.bitnet (PAUL E. GANTER)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: re: Radar gun zapper: fact or fiction?
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Date: 30 Dec 89 18:04:29 GMT
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In article <10781@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>, sampson@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Steve Sampson) writes:
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> I haven't seen any magnetron jammers yet.  Hams don't jam anything other
> than HF and at least one local repeater :-)  However, what your looking
> for (inexpensively) is an AM jammer.  The CW radar is looking for a Doppler

No, I am not looking for anything!  I am not interested in building a radar
jammer, I am interested in the theory/truth behind the device I described.

> Shift between its transmiter and receive target frequency.  It uses a simple
> crystal diode radio.  With enough power you can mask all other targets by

> didn't work.  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.  Masters and Johnson had a name for this,
> but I forget...

Maybe the cops will use them to scare you into going slower?  Cheaper than
actual radar guns, I'll bet.