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From: cjh@csin.UUCP
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Subject: Re foil jamming of radar
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Date: Fri, 3-Jun-83 12:54:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  3 12:54:16 1983
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   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)
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