Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!cca!csin!cjh From: cjh@csin.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re foil jamming of radar Message-ID: <306@csin.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Jun-83 12:54:16 EDT Article-I.D.: csin.306 Posted: Fri Jun 3 12:54:16 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jun-83 00:38:25 EDT Lines: 16 If the foil were fluttering significantly, it wouldn't stay on for long. A much more likely jammer would be a corner. (Visualize a regular octahedron as a skeleton, and make the 3 internal planes (described by any 4 coplanar vertices) of a reflective material; increases reception at the other end from inverse 4th to inverse 2nd. This would also be very difficult to mount permanently on a car. It's worth noting that where anti-detector laws have been tried in court, they have not come out favoring the state. On the other hand, most of the people I know who were willing to drop $200-300 on a detector probably shouldn't be on the road at all. . . . CHip (Chip Hitchcock) ARPA: CJH@CCA-UNIX usenet: ...{!ucbvax,!decvax}!cca!csin!cjh