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Re: Car electronics projects

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From: Todd Day
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1989 01:29
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commgrp@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:
~The Canadian radar-detector detectors are probably for real, and 
~almost surely work by detecting local oscillators. 

~The Escort is a little spectrum-analyser; its local oscillator runs at 
~about 11.5 GHz and is swept over a few hundred MHz by a varactor 
~diode.

Just for kicks, it'd be fun to get a group of friends together and make
up some boxes that emitted the characteristics of radar detectors, then
take the cops to court for false arrest.

-- 

Todd Day  |  todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us  |  ivucsb!todd@anise.acc.com
"It's not the heat, it's the stupidity"  ---  Angry Poodle B-B-Q
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From: todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Car electronics projects
Message-ID: <1989Jul29.012935.14231@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Date: 29 Jul 89 01:29:35 GMT
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