Which radar detector setup?

[breakaway]

Re Radar detector detectors

I thought radar detectors were a passive devices and thus undetectable?

[sAsLEX]

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.

Ek = 1/2*m*v^2

Re Radar detector detectors

I thought radar detectors were a passive devices and thus undetectable?

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...7&postcount=54

[Ixion]

Harrumph. Have you tried to buy weapons grade plutonium, or even just ordinary old household enriched uranium lately ?

EDIT: If anyone does have a source for the above, please let me know.

[Gremlin]

I bet I could detect it with some of the kit at work. It more than likely is little different to other detectors.

While it scares me that you have pictures of rubber suits on hand... I just happen to have a unit you could test against, if you have ready access to your gear. Promise to keep a safe distance from me, and I'll bring my toys to play

If RD becomes illegal, no doubt they would follow some australian states, where they use RDD devices such as stalker III, and as someone pointed out, the bel sti driver is not detected by them. sti driver is the US name, its rebranded something that slips my mind, out here.

[CookMySock]

This LO would also emit from the antenna used to pick up the incoming signal, and it is this that the vans would detect.

aha you work for the moc

Technically, all superhet receivers emit some of their local oscillator. So these radio devices must meet some technical standard ala c-tick. If they DO meet this standard then they are legal. If they DO NOT meet this standard then they are NOT legal.

If the unit is a bona-fide receiving device with bon-fide approval then the unit is "A c-tick approved receiver", and thus is NOT a transmitting device. It is not against the law to operate a receiving device of any type in NZ.

If the units' LO emission levels place it in the category of a transmitting device (whether it transmits anything meaningful or not) then it should be classed, approved, and licensed as such.

All IMO, YMMV. Rock on.

DB

[pritch]

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.

I used to know a couple of guys that worked in that office and they were strictly 8.00AM to 4.35PM, five days a week. In those days there wouldn't have been that many people using TV at that time.

As far as I know they didn't even drive that station wagon with the df aerial on the roof.

[Ocean1]

any motivated civilian could build something accurate to a couple of meters with any range they wanted.......... but who would do that?

http://www.interestingprojects.com/cruisemissile/

[Ixion]

Bastards.

But he never solved the warhead problem either. No point in a missile that doesn't go BANG.

I suppose one could jack up some crude chemical thing, of low yield, but that's so amateur. Nukes are the professional way to go, just sourcing is such a PITA.

[Ocean1]

Bastards.

But he never solved the warhead problem either. No point in a missile that doesn't go BANG.

I suppose one could jack up some crude chemical thing, of low yield, but that's so amateur. Nukes are the professional way to go, just sourcing is such a PITA.

Eh, nooks is sooo last century. Put Brucie's 10kg in orbit with minimal reserve fuel and you can chuck it anywhere within a few thousand klicks of it's orbit shadow. Seen what a few Kg of carbon steel shaft at terminal velocity can do to an armoured column?

Won't do it with a pulse jet though, and sourcing LOX or anything useful for orbital insertion will attract the same attention. Rocketry as a hobby in the western world is somewhat limited nowadays because Uncle Sam has locked all his toys up.

[Ixion]

A bit over the top though, an orbital insertion just to avoid a speeding ticket, don't you think. Got to be practical, don't cha no.

[Ocean1]

A bit over the top though, an orbital insertion just to avoid a speeding ticket, don't you think. Got to be practical, don't cha no.

You started it!


Besides, OTT is WAY more fun than practical. Practical is what Mother wanted for us, to be avoided for that reason if nothing else.

[Ixion]

Well, true. OK then, so everyone's agreed. Orbital missile is the way to go (only if they do ban radar detectors, though).

We know we can manage the vehicle. All we need to source are suitable negines, fuel and a nuke warhead.

And, it occurs to me that Mr SaSlex probably has access to all that sort of stuff. Or at least to places where it's kept.

And knocking off the quartermaster's stores is a fine old navy tradition All we need to do is twist his arm.

[sAsLEX]

Seen what a few Kg of carbon steel shaft at terminal velocity can do to an armoured column?

Rods from God. PGS of the future!

[Swoop]

I suppose one could jack up some crude chemical thing, of low yield, but that's so amateur. Nukes are the professional way to go, just sourcing is such a PITA.

Pah! Why bother with nukes? Go for something that can really do some damage.
Put SARGE in the missile!
Errr, 'ang on. He'll probably want to ride on top whilst having a pint of rocket-fuel and a ciggie.

[Ocean1]

Rods from God. PGS of the future!

Wonder what's the minimum mass, prob depends on drag, CSA. Couple of grams is prob enough for the task at hand...

All we need to source are suitable negines, fuel and a nuke warhead.

They don't have a warhead, at those speeds a fair amount of the mass is converted directly to thermal energy. Literally just a solid steel shaft with guidance fins.