RCD Phantom cloaker? Snake oil?

[Theron J. Bliss]

   Give this a look over.  It's radar jammers, and supposively, legal in the US.
I looked over it briefly, and I think I'm ordering one.  If nothing else, it's a
good detector.  It explains how jammers work, and other useful and useless stuff.

http://www.radarjammers.com/

Theron J. Bliss
1990 V8 Quattro


"Livolsi, Stephane" wrote:

> I don't know.  I am hardly an expert on the subject but I did read a
> reputable (popular science maybe?) article on how the radar works.
> There was something about a radar jammer (possibly the one referenced in
> the initial post) but it went on about emitting some sort of signal from
> your car, which would get mixed in with the radar beam going back to the
> police car and hence confuse the radar gun.  Sounds kind of like
> Robert's point #1 but you aren't trying to overpower the radar, just
> give it mixed signals.  I have no idea how well it works and I wasn't
> intrigued enough to look into it further.  Anybody else hear of this?
>
> Stephane Livolsi
> Williams Lake, BC, Canada
> 86 5KTQ (If you don't know what it means, you aren't in the club)
>
> >----------
> >From:  Beatty, Robert[SMTP:BeattyR at ummhc.org]
> >Sent:  September 27, 2000 11:23 AM
> >To:    'Chris Dyer'; quattro at audifans.com
> >Subject:       RE: RCD Phantom cloaker? Snake oil?
> >
> >I worked in the military in electronics and had some training in radar.  To
> >the best of my knowledge , there are basically 3 ways to beat speed radar if
> >you havent been able to detect it before your in range.
> >
> >1.  Jam the source....  need a powerful transmitter to overload the radar
> >gun's receiver and you would have to be able to detect the freq of the
> >originating  radar signal... as far as i know this is illegal to do.
> >
> >2.  Somehow make your car have a smaller radar cross section by either its
> >construction or by special paint or outside coatings (such as the F-117).
> >(interesting side note: Heard of a young kid that was stationed at Beale AFB
> >when the SR-71 was located there... He was told to dispose of some out of
> >date SR paint... well instead he painted his car with it and it has radar
> >absorbing properties as well as being classified material... was supposedly
> >tooling around base and the cops could never get a good speed reading on
> >him... well they took him and his car away!)
> >
> >3.  Dont speed :)
> >
> >Rob
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From:        Chris Dyer [SMTP:chrisdyer at hotmail.com]
> >> Sent:        Wednesday, September 27, 2000 2:07 PM
> >> To:  quattro at audifans.com
> >> Subject:     RCD Phantom cloaker? Snake oil?
> >>
> >> Started reading about a gizmo called a "cloaker", Phantom RCD.  Allegedly
> >> "sheilds" as well as warns against radar, even instant on.  Obviously I'm
> >> intrigued enough to post, but skeptical enough to ask.  So, anyone know if
> >>
> >> this is snake oil/real deal? technology involved? etc.?
> >>
> >> So far my current MO of "prudent speeding" and living in street-crowded LA
> >>
> >> has been ok. But for long highway trips, I sometimes get the urge...
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