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...

Scott wrote:
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.

How about a gate that opens automatically if approached below a certain
speed, but if approached above it locks closed and will not open until
the vehicle backs up 100 feet and returns slowly.

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...


Actually you can rent them for about $500/mo and set them any where you wish
on your private road. Look for roadway construction suppliers to find
them. You could probably buy one for under $10,000 and modify it with
cameras etc., to your hearts content.
--
JosephKK

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 03:11:21 +0000, Joseph2k wrote:

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...


Actually you can rent them for about $500/mo and set them any where you wish
on your private road. Look for roadway construction suppliers to find
them. You could probably buy one for under $10,000 and modify it with
cameras etc., to your hearts content.

There's one in Whittier you could steal. ;-P

Cheers!
Rich

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...

What a waste of time! If you have a problem with speeding cars just phone
the police, or video record it and phone them at a later date. Also don't
be irresponsible and let dogs out as they might cause an accident or get
killed if they run across roads infront of cars.

I saw a radar gun for sale at Radio Shack....

Mark

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.


You should just lay down some pressure switch hose and get a Parallax
BASIC STAMP kit from Radio Shack. Parallax has wireless modules on their
site you can order to xmit the data to your house for timestamping,
archiving via a PC etc...The smarts will run off a 9V for months- you
can't say that about a Gunn osc xmtr or any of the other surplus junk.
And then there is the issue of weather-proofing and possible loss due to
vandalism- think hidden wireless camera activated by intrusion alarm in PIC.

Hello Jim,

Since you said this is a road with very little traffic can't you just
rig up two IR sensing paths? Like on garage doors? It's unlikely that
there'd be two cars passing each other in opposite direction.

Then all you'd need would be a ramp generator that gets started by
whichever IR sensor goes first. It is reset by the other sensor. If the
reset occurs and the ramp voltage didn't reach a set threshold that
means whatever triggered it was going to fast.

Regards, Joerg

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