Re: Car Ignition Failures

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

At 11:28 AM 7/9/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Nick Andrews by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <nicothefabulous-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
>Yeah, but will it kill a radar gun...

It is unlikely that a typical TC would radiate enough energy to confuse any 
but the most stupid of radar guns. The usual gun these days runs at 24 GHz 
and has relatively sophisticated signal processing to eliminate false 
inputs from all manner of sources.

Yes, the front end isn't all that wonderful (a homodyne receiver), but, the 
TC just isn't going to get all that much energy into it.

Calculate the power density at the radar gun's aperture and you'll see 
why... Don't forget to take into account the power spectral density of the 
TC within the radar antenna's inherent bandwidth