Re: How can a radar detector bedetected?

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From: Michael Schuster
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:15

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In article <18NOV92.13820140.0036@music.mus.polymtl.ca> CT64@music.mus.polymtl.ca (Nicolas Gauvin) 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?

Like all superhet receivers, a radar detector has a local oscillator.
This emits a weak radio signal which the radar detector detectors pick up.


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