Holy #$# Radar Drones! Options

[grantsfo]

Just caught this on a Babbler Board - solar powered radar drones being installed along Nor Cal roads.

http://www.radarbusters.com/news/current/r...adar-drones.asp

[bperry]

That's kind of interesting. I'm assuming that these are all dummy
transmitters are not actually being used for speed tracking and
ticketing along with cameras.
About 20 years ago, several states proposed doing this along
highways to slow down drivers by tricking their radar detectors.

The FCC and the courts eventually declared that this was not a
valid use of the radio frequency since the frequency was specificially
reserved for "real" radar tracking devices and the dummy radar
trasmitters were not actually being used for anything but emitting
a radio signal and were declared to be illegal radio transmitters.

I'm not how they are now getting around this.
Perhaps, over the course of 20 years people have long forgotten
this, rules have been changed, or there is some BS in the something
like the Patriot Act that allows this kind of stuff.

I would encourage people to look around and do some research
because I bet that even today, there are some FCC issues with
doing this.


--- Bill