"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Spob wrote:

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Would it be possible to build a gizmo that could be surreptitiously
aimed at the offending stereo system to fry some crucial components?

There was a Merritt Island cop who set up a speed trap on a road perhaps
a mile downroad from a powerful range tracking radar station.

Bull****. The antennas rotate, but the elevation is fixed.

The magic word is "tracking". You're thinking of an acquisition radar. Aq
radars just rotate.

Tracking radar antennas move in both elevation and azimuth, for pretty
obvious reasons.

Tracking radars are more likely to run in X band, for many technical
reasons. In the past, police radars have run on X band.

Tracking radars are powerful enough that they have special technical
features that keep them from burning themselves out, if you catch my drift.

In my Army days I maintained both aq and track radars. Our trackers radiated
more continuous energy than any other radar on site, so much so that each of
the two trackers had its own very large trailer-mounted generator when
operated in the field. At the Miami site I worked, some young operators
used the trackers to roast land crabs.