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"C.H." > wrote in
news > On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 04:48:38 +0000, Jim Yanik wrote: > >> "C.H." > wrote in >> news >> >>> On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:55:51 +0000, Jim Yanik wrote: >>> >>>> "C.H." > wrote in >>>> news >>>> >>>>> Radar Jammers, which transmit on their own, are already illegal. >>>>> They are unlicensed radio transmitters and as such are subject to >>>>> a hefty fine. >>>> >>>> FEDERAL law,which States are not empowered to enforce. The chances >>>> of you getting caught by the Feds are slim to none. >>> >>> That doesn't change the fact that it is illegal and dangerous >> >> Dangerous? How's that? You don't know much about radar jammers. > > Unfortunately I do know quite a few things about illegal transmitters. > And I know my life as a pilot depends on radio communication and that > idiots, whose hacked homebuilt transmitters' harmonics interrupt or > garble this radio communication are endangering my life and other > people's life too. Again,the tranmitter in homemade radar gun jammers are common COMMERCIAL Gunn oscillators.Only the modulating signal/power source is made by the constructor. So,they are NOT "dangerous". > > Oh, and before I forget: One of the lives they endanger may be yours. > Imagine you sit comfortably in a Boeing 737 approaching SFO and a > plane approaching the parallel runway gets their runway assignment > wrong because half a dozen other Jim Janiks had to fool some trooper > on nearby 101... Unfortunately,the scenario you describe is not gonna happen. Not for a low powered radar jammer operating in bands not used by com- aviation. > > I don't mind speeding and I do mind low speed limits, but illegal > radar jammers are NOT the way to go. > >> The Gunn oscillators are common commercial items.They're >> everywhere;door openers in most stores,burglar alarms. > > All these devices are build according to FCC regulations. Not so these > illegal hacked together devices. Uh,the transmitter IS the Gunn oscillator.Manufactured to FCC regulations. > As they are illegal their > manufacturers don't > >>> to use unlicensed and often underengineered hacked-together radar >>> transmitters and that it makes sense to enforce the already existing >>> federal law. >>> >> Only the FCC has the authority to enforce Federal communications >> laws. > > One more reason to find another way to take away these 'jammers'. > > Btw, newsflash: They don't work anyway. > > Chris > Agreed;Car and Driver mag's tests of several years ago showed that half of them worked. Not good enough for me. That may only be a lack of knowledge about the radar guns in current use,thus not being able to design the proper,effective modulation circuitry,or due to better training by the speedgun's users. -- Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net |
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