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Article #18716Re: X-Ray countermeasures (was Robocop spotted (Photo radar enforcement))
From: Rob Fowler
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1988 21:55
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1988 21:55
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A friend who works for a large military electronics contractor doing electronic warefare kinds of thing once told me that the way to build a cheap sparkplug-based jammer is to construct a waveguide by gluing aluminum foil around a piece of 2 by 4. The plug is screwed into a hole bored in the side. The broadband rf from the plugand the gadget is very crudely tuned by cutting it to an appropriate length and placing the feed at an appropriate place from the closed end. Doing this makes cuts down on the interference you generate by limiting the bandwidth and making it more or less directional. Of course, you'll still wipe out most radio communication ahead of you and you might even manage to jam the pacemaker of the little old man careening towards you in his Cadillac. Although it's doable, it's still a bad idea.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!bbn!rochester!fowler From: fowler@cs.rochester.edu (Rob Fowler) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: X-Ray countermeasures (was Robocop spotted (Photo radar enforcement)) Message-ID: <7205@sol.ARPA> Date: 27 Feb 88 21:55:12 GMT References: <602@anasaz.UUCP> <342@tandem.UUCP> <610@anasaz.UUCP> <1358@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> <1098@uop.edu> Reply-To: fowler@cs.rochester.edu (Rob Fowler) Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY Lines: 13