Miata Mailing List: September 1998, Message #2887

On 9/22/98 13:06, RKMorrow@aol.com RKMorrow@aol.com wrote:

>This is true; active jammers (those generating and emitting radar 
>frequencies)
>have always been illegal.  According to Car and Driver, March 1998, the FCC
>has ruled that the passive jammers are also illegal.  These passive jammers
>take some of the radar energy from an external source (the radar gun),
>modulate it with a tone, and re-radiate it back toward the source.  So why 
>are
>passive jammers still being advertised?

For the same reason they still buy deer whistles for the bumper and 
ultrasonic cockroach repellers, despite a total lack of evidence that 
they work--it's nearly impossible for a layman to disprove the claims 
(until it's too late), and folks tend to be optimistic about 
allegedly-"scientific" solutions to irritating problems...in other words, 
people are terribly gullible. Suckers, if you will. TANSTAAFL.

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Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
'94C

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