Anyone know anything about this jammer

D Hanson · 07-27-2003, 05:37 PM

http://www.amazing-radar-jammers.com/affiliate.htm#OPT%20IN

Jim Sims · 07-27-2003, 05:55 PM

Anything powerful enough to overwhelm the primary return RF signal is illegal anywhere. The FCC requires transmitters to be licensed. I'd like to see the circuit that puts out a jamming signal that can beat the "instant on" bounced laser signal back to the gun. 186,000 miles per second is not only a good idea, it's the law. Don't waste your money. Cheers, Jim

D Hanson · 07-28-2003, 03:02 PM

Heard same from others about jammers in general. Just have not seen that particular model.

RoninLB · 07-28-2003, 03:14 PM

I believe that's the Phazer that has been around awhile.. and a few years ago a F-14 EE told me a good street radar jammer would need very big hp to power it.. more than my car could EVER put out. another guy told me to buy a high powered communications radio and keep the mike pressed/who knows? laser is another story

red-beard · red-beard's Garage

BS - It's always easier to Jam than it is to receive. Check out what Fidel does to the TV Mardi broadcasts. The radar guns might use at the most a couple of watts.

On the legality, it depends on the frequency. Some of the "radar" ,aka "microwave", bands are multi-use and therefore if you have the right to braodcast there, you can. OTOH, intentionally jamming a signal is not allowed under FCC rules. Quite the contrary.

I did get an insurance company to pay for my stolen radar detector, since I used amatuer radio equipment, and I called it a "2.4 gigahertz receiver".

James

dotorg · 07-28-2003, 05:31 PM

Quick and dirty: no passive radar jammers work, most active ones do. No active ones are legal, even though the broadcast range is technically within amateur radio licensed bands, even with a license you couldn't because its deliberately causing interferance with another user of the spectrum.

Many laser jammers don't, but there ARE good ones that are nearly 100% effective until you get to close range.

The problem with a low power radar jammer, which don't exist (and is why passive jammers don't work) is that the time it takes consumer electronics to stabilize a jamming signal once its detected the radar signal, they've already got your speed. The only way to get around that is with power. Do you want a microwave oven pointing out the front of your car, even ignoring the legality of it?

stormcrow · stormcrow's Garage

The Phaser II was the one the FCC banned. It received the signal then scrambled it and transmitted another signal back to the the radar gun. That type of device is illegal because it is a transmitter and the FCC has to approve the frequencies it transmits on.

The Phaser is not a transmitter. All it does is take the signal and scrambles the signal but does not transmit. Therefore, it is legal but has been around for a long time which by the way has been tested by police radar and failed.

Steve

"A Porsche does more then just go fast in a straight line"

RoninLB · 07-28-2003, 10:29 PM

if I had more brains I could ask Poptronics
[ www.poptronics.com ] an educated question on what is required to build a street jammer.. the questions would have to be politially correct, I believe.

they have some kind of "service to readers"..

" available plans or information relating to products, techniques, and scientific and technological developments."

Huh!