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Article #1054Re: Police-radar countermeasures (and rockets)
From: Dave Turner
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1989 20:34
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1989 20:34
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In article <19212@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> max@ee.cornell.edu (Max Hauser) writes:
.If you've been in metropolitan England you may well have noticed the
.receiver-detecting crews going around looking for unlicensed (and
.therefore untaxed) TV receivers (yes, receivers). They used the same
.principle, detecting the LO, in what is surely a much more cluttered
.electromagnetic environment than the highway police encounter. (I don't
.know if they still do this, but in 1972 the English TV-detector crews
.dressed in exotic uniforms and helmets like alien invaders from some
.low-budget Hammer-Studios film, or an episode of _The Avengers_).
.
There was a Monty Python skit to parody this.
The subject was pets (possibly about a license for a pet fish)
and the salesman (John Cleese) was talking about the "cat detector van"
which could detect a purr from quite a distance away.
--
Dave Turner 415/542-1299 {att,bellcore,sun,ames,decwrl}!pacbell!dmt
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!ames!pacbell!ptsfa!dmt From: dmt@PacBell.COM (Dave Turner) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Police-radar countermeasures (and rockets) Message-ID: <4906@ptsfa.PacBell.COM> Date: 2 Aug 89 20:34:44 GMT References: <414@ctycal.UUCP> <19212@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> Reply-To: dmt@PacBell.COM (Dave Turner) Distribution: na Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA Lines: 18