Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site trsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!trsvax!mikey From: mikey@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Radar jamming and radar detectors - (nf) Message-ID: <55200073@trsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 13:30:00 EDT Article-I.D.: trsvax.55200073 Posted: Mon Jun 18 13:30:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jun-84 03:07:43 EDT References: <1415@pegasus.UUCP> Lines: 35 Nf-ID: #R:pegasus:-141500:trsvax:55200073:000:1705 Nf-From: trsvax!mikey Jun 18 12:30:00 1984 #R:pegasus:-141500:trsvax:55200073:000:1705 trsvax!mikey Jun 18 12:30:00 1984 If you have an older Corvette, i.e. pre '84, and you have a front license plate, make sure you angle the plate forward about 30 degrees. This works on any car, but is most noticable on the vettes because of their low radar profile. Honda civics are also a low profile car. As for other cars, Back in 1980 Car and Driver did an article on Radar Range. They even found a guy who bought some carbon foam sheets and glued them on the hood and front of his Porsche to make it almost invisible to radar. The only problem with low profile is that you become more suseptable to the traffic around you. For example you come up on a cop about 200 yards ahead doing 55 mph. He may not pick you up until 75 yards, but the White Freightliner behind you can be picked up at 7000 feet!!! Now if that truck is doing 75 mph and he is 1200 feet back and you are in you're nice clean legal speed but fast looking vette, who do you think will get pulled over? Before you answer, I'll warn you it depends on the state. In PA, only State Police operate radar, and they are VERY careful about giving the motorist a way out. They probably would let you and the truck go. More likely, you won't see a radar trap in PA where this could occur. They don't want test cases in court to go against radar. In NJ they just nail everybody for the money, no matter how sure they are, they just want the revenue. mikey at trsvax 55, it's not just a good idea, it S*CKS BTW, if enough interest is generated, I'll post some of the information on how radar guns and jammers work, but it might get lengthy. As for the 84 vette, I've heard, but not verified, that it is not near as invisible to radar as the older vettes.