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Article #15074Re: How can a radar detector bedetected?
From: Kevin Doherty
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:19
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:19
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The problem is 'LO reradiation'. Most sensitive receivers, right off the antenna, do their first downconversion operation. Thus you have an antenna going to one mixer port, your LO going to another, and the first IF coming out the third. Unfortunately, there's some coupling between ports on even the best mixers, and that's what's being detected-some LO is going right out the antenna. Now, what I want to see is some enterprising enterpreneur churn out millions of 'radar detector detector jammers'-just an LO at the right frequency hooked up to a micro antenna. The size of an ice cube, powered for weeks off a small battery, and under $1.00 to make: everyone would have one. And all of 'em would look like a radar detector to the detector detectors. Radar detectors = countermeasure; detector detector = counter-countermeasure; guess that makes the jammer a counter-counter-countermeasure.
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!melpar!doherty From: doherty@melpar (Kevin Doherty) Subject: Re: How can a radar detector bedetected? Organization: E-Systems, Melpar Division Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:19:29 GMT Message-ID: <By0qGJ.AG9@melpar> References: <18NOV92.13820140.0036@music.mus.polymtl.ca> <1992Nov20.100124.26519@rvgs.vak12ed.edu> Lines: 16