RE: Jammers

["Duff, Ian" <iduff@charter.com>]

Re: 3) the active ones usually work after being triggered by a detector,
otherwise you a) burn out the transmitter, and b) fry (or at least lightly
brown) yourself. With this in mind, I would only get upset when the jammer
kicked in and made me think there was a radar very close at hand, not all
the time.

Ian Duff, New Bedford, MA
1990 Coupe Quattro

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>From: 	dan_masi@MENTORG.COM[SMTP:dan_masi@MENTORG.COM]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, April 10, 1996 1:36 PM
>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	Re: Jammers
>
>On Apr 10, 11:58am, Duff, Ian wrote:
>> Subject: RE: Jammers
>> 1.) Illegal, since they are unlicensed transmitters.
>>
>> 2.) Pretty cool in concept, but generally don't work.
>
>Don't forget
>  3.) They make radar detectors in the surrounding vehicles
>      useless, and those of us with directional-indicating
>      detectors like Valentine-1 will figure out who the
>      moron is with the jammer and get *very* angry.
>
>Dan Masi
>