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

Quite frankly, I don't give a hairy rat's ass for your practical or
political opinion. ATFQ from a technical point of view or butt out. I can
take care of the rest of it myself.

Jim



"James T. White" wrote in message
...
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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On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:30:06 -0800, RST Engineering (jw) wrote:

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.


If this is the kind of attitude that you're displaying to your neighbors,
then it's no wonder that the kids are punishing you.

Are you such a crusty old crank in real life?

Just shoot their tires out then.

Thanks,
Rich


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

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 16:05:43 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

why can't you just
ATFQ?

because this is newsnet and anything goes.

How about a gate at the end of the road that can be opened by the users
with a garage door opener, ie a gated community of sorts. If it's a
private road, keep others off.

RST Engineering wrote:

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...