On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:35:15 -0700, Wes Stewart wrote:

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 14:47:08 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

What illegal? I can either retune it for a ham band or reduce power if
necessary. I'll find the hardware first and figure out the legal later.

Well, I know I'm going to be asked to leave this discussion but,
technically, unless you are IDing with your call sign every 10
minutes. it would be illegal. I seriously doubt that this was in your
plan.

Police radar guns, should you come up with one, are also licensed to
the department, assuming the cops are following the law, always a
dubious proposition.

So, because these are -technical- newsgroups, I was being -technical-.

Now for a "prohibited" non-technical suggestion, here is one that I am
contemplating. I too live on a short, private, single-lane road, that
serves four multi-acre homesites. I am plagued by the guys driving
delivery trucks (DHL, UPS, etc) who roar down the road in a cloud of
dust while delivering to my neighbors. I have complained to UPS
repeatedly without success.

So one of these days, when I'm up to it, after they go by on the way
to the neighbor's house, I'm going to take my truck out and block the
road for 15 minutes. (A second offense will call for a penalty of 30
minutes, etc) UPS seems to have a deal with law enforcement that
exempts them from speed limits on public roads, but in AZ the statutes
say:

28-628. Rights of real property owners

This chapter does not prevent the owner of real property that is used
by the public for purposes of vehicular travel by permission of the
owner and not as a matter of right from:

1. Prohibiting that use.

2. Requiring other, different or additional conditions than those
specified in this chapter.

3. Otherwise regulating the use as deemed best by the owner.

In other words, I get to regulate the speed (I've posted it as 10
MPH). I have no power to fine UPS, but I can still cost them money.

Put up a gate and charge them $1.00 in and $100.00 out. ;-)

Good Luck!
Rich

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:28:12 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

Back in the '60s and early '70s I did some work with Impatt and Gunn diodes,
building a little self-detecting doppler for speed sensing. However, 35
years have passed and my notebooks for that stuff are somewhere in a dusty
archive along with my venerable sliderule.



Jim, take a look at www.shfmicro.com where you'll find 10GHz and
24GHz doppler modules for sale at very favourable prices. They would
certainly be very useful for what you have in mind.

Good luck..

Peter, G3PHO

UK Microwave Group

www.microwavers.org
www.g3pho.org.uk

Peter, thanks, but they are a bit pricey for what I have in mind.

Jim


"Peter" wrote in message
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On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:28:12 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:





Jim, take a look at www.shfmicro.com where you'll find 10GHz and
24GHz doppler modules for sale at very favourable prices. They would
certainly be very useful for what you have in mind.

There's a radar speed gun on Ebay *NOW* (not mine, so technically this isn't
spam...:-)

Cheers.

Ken

"RST Engineering (jw)" wrote in message
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Peter, thanks, but they are a bit pricey for what I have in mind.

Jim


"Peter" wrote in message
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On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:28:12 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:





Jim, take a look at www.shfmicro.com where you'll find 10GHz and
24GHz doppler modules for sale at very favourable prices. They would
certainly be very useful for what you have in mind.

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:28:12 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

Back in the '60s and early '70s I did some work with Impatt and Gunn diodes,
building a little self-detecting doppler for speed sensing. However, 35
years have passed and my notebooks for that stuff are somewhere in a dusty
archive along with my venerable sliderule.

Is there a cheap source for onesies-twosies of a radar front-end that will
give me doppler audio as a function of a large metal object's speed at a
range of 20 meters or so? I don't need to go into production on this thing,
just build one. A surplus source would be ideal.

It seems that the little kids on our rural country lane have all become
teenagers at once and are trying to outdo the others in how fast they can
drive daddy's car up and down the lane. We've lost one dog this week and
unless I can put up some sort of a siren that goes off when they exceed some
agreed upon limit, the carnage will continue.


Regards,


Jim


Go to your local police department and have them monitor the speeders with a
automated speed display unit. What! they don't have one in your town? bring it
up at the next town meeting...

A) We aren't in a "town", rather we are pretty far out into the country.

B) It is a private dead-end road owned in mutual easement between the four
families that live at the end of it about half a mile off the county road
that serves it. The county mounties have nothing to say about what goes on
on the road.

C) I realize that this is newsnet and anything goes, but why can't you just
ATFQ?

Jim


Go to your local police department and have them monitor the speeders with
a
automated speed display unit. What! they don't have one in your town?
bring it
up at the next town meeting...

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...
B) It is a private dead-end road owned in mutual easement between the
four
families that live at the end of it about half a mile off the county
road
that serves it. The county mounties have nothing to say about what
goes on
on the road.

So go have a talk with the parents in the other three families and ask
them to get control of their kids. Better yet, send the responsible
ones a bill for your new dog.

--
James T. White

You are one of the idiots I don't ever want to live next to. We can talk to
the parents until we are blue in the face and the kids are going to be ...
kids.

Please butt out of this conversation.

Ji



"James T. White" wrote in message
...

So go have a talk with the parents in the other three families and ask
them to get control of their kids. Better yet, send the responsible
ones a bill for your new dog.

--
James T. White

"RST Engineering (jw)" wrote in message
...
You are one of the idiots I don't ever want to live next to. We can
talk to
the parents until we are blue in the face and the kids are going to be
....
kids.

Please butt out of this conversation.

Ji

Jim,

What makes you think the kids won't drive as fast as they can just to
set off your new speed activated siren and **** you off?

--
James T. White

In article ,
says...
You are one of the idiots I don't ever want to live next to. We can talk to
the parents until we are blue in the face and the kids are going to be ...
kids.

Gee, and technological solutions to social problems always work SO well.

-- jm

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