Re: How can a radar detector bedetected?

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From: Andrew H. Bond
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:01

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CT64@music.mus.polymtl.ca  writes:
> A friend of mine recently got arrested because he was using a radar
> detector. The cops actually used some kind of device to detect its
> radar detector. How is this possible? Isn't a radar detector something
> that only receives but emits nothing?
> 
> 
>                         Nicolas Gauvin
>                         gauvinn@info.polymtl.ca

I am by no means an expert, but I read somewhere that these
detectors pick up the high frequency leakage from the
detectors... If this is the case a properly shielded detector
might be undetectable. Any RF experts out there to back me up?
-- 
Andrew H. Bond, Roanoke Valley Graduate Center

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