Re: Laser jamming

[Tobias Jansson <tobias.jansson@ericsson.com>]

Ktaahden@aol.com writes:

> A few years back Car & Driver ran a story in which they tested various radar
> "jammers".  Basically, none of them worked.  In an attempt to create their own
> jammer, they took a Cibie "Super Oscar" (remember those basketball sized
> driving lights :D) and fitted it with an IR pass filter.  They chose to mount
> the behemoth centered on the bumper above the license plate as this was the
> usual target.  Sure enough, they could not get a reading from the gun as the
> unit was overloaded (blinded) by the IR emanating from the apparently dark
> light.  They sourced their filter from Edmund Scientific.

Here in Sweden a couple of magazines have tested differend makes of
jammers, and the Blinder M06 and the Lasertech 2000 seems to work.
I've even spoke to two persons (both drove Audi S2:s !) that have first-hand
experience - i.e pulled over by cops telling them that they couldn't measure
their speed....  :)

One magazine even stated that strong headlights, made it *much* more different
to measure. MC:s with the headlights in highbeam (? correct word?) were almost
impossible to measure.

Best regards,
Tobias

-90 Audi 200TQ20V
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