Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!boulder!ccncsu!ncr-fc!mikemc From: mikemc@mustang.ncr-fc.FtCollins.NCR.com (Mike McManus) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Radar gun zapper: fact or fiction? Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 90 23:56:19 GMT References: <74719@psuecl.bitnet> <1198@ariel.unm.edu> <10657@ucsd.Edu> <74896@psuecl.bitnet> <10781@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <1989Dec30.221555.29156@utzoo.uucp> <34143@mips.mips.COM> Sender: news@ncr-fc.FtCollins.NCR.COM Organization: NCR Microelectronic Products, Ft. Collins, CO Lines: 32 In-reply-to: crisp@mips.COM's message of 4 Jan 90 21:53:57 GMT In article <34143@mips.mips.COM> crisp@mips.COM (Richard Crisp) writes: > I do remember seeing an article in "Radio Electronics" circa 1985 to 1987 that > described a "false target generator" for police RADAR. This project was the > featured article in the issue and was shown on the cover. In essence it would > allow you to jam a RADAR gun with a signal that would trick the RADAR gun into > saying that you were going a speed of your choice (like 55mph). It was an > interesting project as I recall and only had one expensive component, the GUNN > diode (the microwave source). > > -- > Just the facts Ma'am Seems to me that I recall hearing a story about a guy who built himself such a beast (wish I could add details, but it was a 3rd or 4th-hand story). One day he gets pulled over in a school zone for speeding. "Clocked you going 55 in the school zone", says the cop. Well, he started to protest violently (he *KNEW* he was only doing 20!), but then shut up and took the ticket. You see, he realized that he was screwed: he had accidently flipped on his "jammer", set to say he was doing 55... -- Disclaimer: All spelling and/or grammer in this document are guaranteed to be correct; any exseptions is the is wurk uv intter-net deemuns. Mike McManus (mikemc@ncr-fc.FtCollins.ncr.com) NCR Microelectronics 2001 Danfield Ct. mikemc@ncr-fc@ncr-sd.sandiego.ncr.com, or Ft. Collins, Colorado mikemc@ncr-fc@ccncsu.colostate.edu (303) 223-5100 Ext. 360 (they're ugly, but they work!)