Doppler Radar

Get a piece of baling wire, and tie two garbage cans together, one on either side of the alleyway, with the wire about 18" (1/2M) off the ground.

That should slow the little bastards down! >:->

Good Luck! Rich

I was once in a parking lot, and just kind of _knew_ that some kid was going to run out in front of me, and not a second later, there came the ball and the kid. I had already stopped.

Cheers! Rich

Nah - It's Jim @ RST - he wants to nail somebody so he can kick their ass.

Cheers! Rich

Put up a gate and charge them $1.00 in and $100.00 out. ;-)

Good Luck! Rich

Can you say, "speed bump?"

Good Luck! Rich

If this is the kind of attitude that you're displaying to your neighbors, then it's no wonder that the kids are punishing you.

Are you such a crusty old crank in real life?

Just shoot their tires out then.

Thanks, Rich

Look at garage door opener safety electric eye thingies. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Possible deterrents if they DO have radar detectors; Something like a 910 nm (lidar) laser diode/LED tied into a 555 timer pulsed cct. - make sure the laser divergence is set for fairly wide coverage. A 10mW surplus ~10.5 ghz gunnplexer w/homebrew feedhorn - sets off my radar detector for over a block (line of sight).

Either or both of these in a grey box mounted on a telephone pole would certainly look like photo radar & set the detectors off. Additionally, an official Photo-Radar-Speed warning sign "borrowed" from the city & posted in your location may also help ;-)

There's a supposed lidar schematic here;

Having said all that, is there any chance of contacting the State, explaining your situation & temporarily borrowing a photo radar cam?

G'Luck!

A strobe light. The radar 'your speed is..' signs don't do much to discourage the a*holes. They just try to see what sort of quarter mile speed they can hit.

The ones with the strobe make them wonder whether they'll be getting one of those photo tickets in the mail.

It went the way of all neighborly, over the backyard fence discussions.

This is usenet, remember. Totally typical and often informative (and often not) [g].

How about a sign that says, "Shotgun automatically triggered when speed exceeds 25MPH" ?:-)

...Jim Thompson

Hello Jim,

No idea but one source might be remote controls and the corresponding receiver diode in the set or from a stereo. I bet that Radio Shack will have something if there still is one in your area (our became a cell phone store). You'd need a crude reflector on the other side, piece of metal or white board.

Another source might be if someone replaces their garage door opener. They usually come complete with the child protect barrier and most people will throw out the old one.

Thing is, you need at least two sets. The LEDs could be running all the time and you just have to sense the receive elements.

There is yet one more method: Two coils next to the road, each with oscillator. On fence posts, wherever. A car will de-tune it or, if set on the edge of the stable feedback range, would stop the oscillator momentarily. In contrast to the IR method and the Doppler method this can be made pretty weather proof from cheap wire.

Regards, Joerg

Leave it to Thompson to come up with one that involves lethal violence. At least the booby-trap I suggested only involves noise and damage to the car's paint ( and maybe sheet metal, depending how fast they're going and what's in the garbage cans. )

Cheers! Rich

This from someone who brags about speeding? I say go for it, anywhere you normally drive. If it works out ok on you, they can try it in other cities.

I don't know either, I just put in Cholla & Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85254 and then scrolled west.

I then read off and noted the latitude and longitude in case someone knew how to do it directly.

...Jim Thompson

I just wonder why you are posting to an amateur radio newsgroup ?

Your rambling about speed traps has nothing to do with amateur radio.

Paul OH3LWR

Respectfully Frank, Jim Thompson is obviously not a piece of s*it. How do we know this? Well, for the simple fact that s*it cannot type, and Jim types rather well.

If you dislike him, as you clearly do, then by all means--and through the miracle of USENET--you have every right and opportunity to let us know exactly how and why. Simply calling him something he isn't, over and over, however, does little to clarify why you're offended, and is, frankly, kind of boring.

Regards, James Arthur

Try pasting this into the search bar:

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Anyone point me to how do you enter Latitude and Longitude into Google Earth?

Regards Ian