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1) Cop sitting on the side of the road and suddenly Beethoven's Piano Concerto #2 Starts playing on his radio.

2) All of the power from your jammer fries his radar unit and it explodes on his dash.

3) And of course the coup de grace, the laser beam emitted from your jammer vaporizes his car completely leaving only black ash marks in the dirt at the side of the road.

Jeez, I need to get some sleep. These 16 hour days and 3 hours of sleep for the last week must be getting to me!!!

IMHO there will never be any passive detection device which will warn you in all instances with sufficient time for the vehicular velocity to be slowed to such an extent to evade the raised eyebrow. In the early days of radar, the guns used were slow and spread radiation in a large enough cone so detection was easy and effective, then came faster guns <2 second capture durations. Detection was good but too late to be effective because you can't slow the car down fast enough, now our adversaries have even better radars and now laser. Detection units can and will sense these stimuli but again far too late. Laser Interferomety is instantaneous <.5 seconds. Defeating laser and all radars in a passive sense would require faceted panels like on the F117 fighter. So in order for an operator have effective ECM systems in place they would have to be active systems. I've dreamt up two such sytems but application makes it prohibitive.

1. raster scanning laser tuned to the same frequency as law enforcement. Scanning horizon horizontally 60 degrees and upward 20 degrees. Paddle style beam delivery system. Just like those laser light shows in the entertainment industry.

2. A sweep oscillator, sweeping all the critical microwave bands at say 2000 times/sec. The signal transmitted could be anything, RF noise or Beethovens Piano concerto #2. The power requirements for this would be quite daunting.

Both systems would render the information recieved by the "enemy" as disinformation if they got anything at all. If they have a V1 then the'de know your jamming. But with visual tracking from overhead, it's still a biased game in their favor.

This is all academic theory and mostly illegal but it is fun to think about. (grin)

Hi Hans, thanks for the good thoughts. Well, then if Valentine 1 is the best there is, I guess something is better than nothing. I do wonder though, will the Valentine 1 spot them first? I wonder if anyone knows? Hmmmmmmm
Thanks, Kurt

Hi Kurt,
Thanks for input. The detectors that are mounted inside BMW cars are of a different make. They have a sensor mounted in front behind the grill and another on the rear bumper. On the dash they will have a red and a yellow light and a beeper. You will not know what band or the direction of the threat. As to on-off radar, hopefully someone ahead will trigger it and you will know it is there. Otherwise only votive candle, Saints etc. are of use.

This brings me to your ticket. My thoughts and best wishes are with you. I might even burn a candle. Since your incident paranoia grips me around Sacramento. It really is a damn shame that enforcing "Safety" has become a racket.
Fortunately I go to Europe occasionally, alas without the 840, still driving there takes the wrinkles out of my soul.
Keep us posted so that we can direct our moral support in your direction.
One last admonition, should you go beyond Sacramento, Auburn and beyond,our civil servants in uniform will be sitting by the road, lights off, engine on with on-off radar in the ready.
Lots of luck to you.
Regards,
H

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