Radar detector/scrambler

Feb 15, 2011 24 Replies

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It would seem to me though that if you were to simply generate even a dead carrier on the radar frequency sufficient in strength to swamp that of the returned signal back to the origination point wouldn't that do the job? I don't mean to say that it would be healthy or smart for that matter to drive around all the time while transmitting 10.0 GHZ or whatever but how complicated does this have to be? The PRC 25 and 77 had a "retransmit" function. We never really used it but I was under the impression that it would retransmit the signal it received perhaps to a repeater for distant communication. So if the military had this in 1968 it must be easy to implement now. Lenny

It isn't that simple. Police RADAR works by Doppler effect. I.E., the returned signal is mixed with with a sample of the transmitted frequency. The difference in frequency tells your speed. Any attempt to jam it will be a crap shoot. Even if you managed to match the RADAR transmitter's frequency, it would still show your speed.

Military RADAR is RAdio Detection And Ranging, or a means to bounce a signal off metallic objects, and time the reflection to measure the distance. The rotating antenna gives you the heading. Some also change the vertical angle to give the elevation of a target. I've serviced both types.

You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's Teflon coated.

You know the frequency of the signal you receive. You know your speed. Assuming you could build a circuit to compute the necessary bits, you should have little trouble computing the original transmitted frequency with those two bits of information. The simply transmitting the same frequency back should result in the desired result of a lower reading.

PeterD wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

the active jammers I've seen program a set freq. shift to give a lesser speed reading at the radargun. they had a switch to change it for different speed zones.The jammer's stronger direct signal overwhelms the weaker reflection of the gun's signal.

But white noise is broadband,so a radargun would not be able to make any comparison to the transmitted freq. with a "white noise jammer" It would raise the noise floor ABOVE the reflected signal,smothering it. I believe I've seen references to radarguns having an indicator for "jamming",and their audio output would also be an indicator,operators being trained to recognize interference.

Jim Yanik jyanik at localnet dot com

Do you know the angle the RADAR transmitter is coming from? Also, if the display is obviously wrong, the cop will know you are using ECM to avoid a ticket.

You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's Teflon coated.

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