Re: Radar detector/jammers

[jackvg@lehman.com (Jack Van Geldern)]

Eddi Jew <jew@rysa.dtc.hp.com> writes:
>  Your fellow drivers with (dumb) detectors may receive false alarms.

	The newer jammers seem to be passive, they only return the signal they get, so
they probably would not cause other detectors to go off unless there was a transmitter
in the area.

>  The legal, grey area of getting caught with a  "passive" detector is
>  bad enough. I hate to think what a transmitting jammer would do to
>  to a city's coffer.

	I don't know if a cop could do anything even if you were transmitting.  I have
heard that there are 2 FCC inspectors in the north-east of the USA, a very large area
for 2 people to cover.  The FCC rules are Federal, therefore State and local cops can't
do anything about it, as they have no jurisdiction.

	I would try to make it a concealed intallation for the jammer, you don't need to
see it like you do a detector.  If the cop can't see it, how would he know you have it?