Which radar detector setup?

[kiwifruit]

hrm, outa my price range m'fraid

DB

i wouldn't be selling my second hand unit at rrp

am I on kiwifruits ignore list perhaps?

awwwww! you'd be doing well mate
i'd like to sell the lot together, but make an offer if you like

[kiwifruit]

radar sold, screamer available

[pritch]

Ever wonder how the vans could detect tvs without licenses?

TV Aerials on the roof of the house?

I think you'll find the vans were for detecting illegal transmitters not receivers.
Like the guy I used to know who had a CB set capable of reaching from West Australia to NZ in good conditions. His set was in a vehicle and he operated "mobile". Probably from the top of a hill where he could see for miles...

I thought all detectors "looked" behind as well as to the front, mine does.

Detectors should hopefully work out of the top of a tank bag but I guess we'll see. Might have to shell out for a HARD...

[madandy]

Can anyone show evidence that the pollies ARE going to ban RD's ?

[Swoop]

Can anyone show evidence that the pollies ARE going to ban RD's ?

It was a proposal, released at the end of 2007.
2008 will be "discussion" year, and with an erection being held later in the year, our politician's will be concentrating on that.

[madandy]

yeah. no need to panick then people...all this talk of detctor detectors gives me the yips.

[pritch]

Well, we can all sit around posting to KB about the detector ban but that won't actually achieve v f much. Or we could send an email to Harry Duynhoven whose little rush of shit to the brain this was.

Harry was quoted in the paper as saying he was prepared to take the backlash. What we need to show him is that the backlash may be bigger than he thinks.

No, I haven't emailed him yet, I was also going to point out his other perceived shortcomings as Minister. The difficulty is I don't know where to stop...

[BiK3RChiK]

Well, we can all sit around posting to KB about the detector ban but that won't actually achieve v f much. Or we could send an email to Harry Duynhoven whose little rush of shit to the brain this was.

Harry was quoted in the paper as saying he was prepared to take the backlash. What we need to show him is that the backlash may be bigger than he thinks.

No, I haven't emailed him yet, I was also going to point out his other perceived shortcomings as Minister. The difficulty is I don't know where to stop...

Heh! He's your local boy...!!!!

[sAsLEX]

TV Aerials on the roof of the house?

I think you'll find the vans were for detecting illegal transmitters not receivers.

Nope.


Super-heterodyne receivers require a Local Oscillator at the frequency of interest to separate the wanted signal from the carrier. This LO would also emit from the antenna used to pick up the incoming signal, and it is this that the vans would detect.

[Ixion]

I thought all detectors "looked" behind as well as to the front, mine does.

Detectors should hopefully work out of the top of a tank bag but I guess we'll see. Might have to shell out for a HARD...

Most have a rearward "window" but it's less effective than forward. Only the Valentine shows the signals separately , I think.

Mine works fine in the map pocket of the tank bag, haven't tried it in the "inside", but the GPS receiver works OK there so I think radar would. No metal in the way is the rule.

[Ixion]

Nope.


Super-heterodyne receivers require a Local Oscillator at the frequency of interest to separate the wanted signal from the carrier. This LO would also emit from the antenna used to pick up the incoming signal, and it is this that the vans would detect.

Yeah , it's the scatter from the LO emittance that radar detector detectors pick up on. However, the mind of man is ingenious

[sAsLEX]

Yeah , it's the scatter from the LO emittance that radar detector detectors pick up on. However, the mind of man is ingenious

Yeah there are ways around it......... maybe the military would know of a way?

[Ixion]

Bah, if I had access to military resources, I just fit a missile system.

[sAsLEX]

Bah, if I had access to military resources, I just fit a missile system.

Why do you need military resources?

A ram jet is easy to make, as is a simple powder powered jet.

Microprocessors and servos are cheap, and Inertial Navigation and GPS systems mean any motivated civilian could build something accurate to a couple of meters with any range they wanted.......... but who would do that?

[Ixion]

Yes, yes, all well and good . but the warhead, what about that? That's the important bit. And it's not like you can get nukes at Bunnings y'know. I asked them , and they don't stock them.