Speed Deterent with 'Fake' Radar Signal?

[MarkF48]

+1 on avoiding issues with Part 90. As anyone with a ham license knows the FCC doesn't mess around with fines on that stuff(easily gets into the 5 figures).

Best way to keep people flying down the street is probably make it physically impossible. I'd work with you local town/county to see what you can do to get speed bumps installed. If it's a residential road it should be pretty straightforward.

Official speed bumps won't happen. There is a pretty good frost heave in the road in front of my house that occasionally I've recovered a few pieces of firewood that have been bounced out of a truck. It doesn't slow down the speeders though.

 

[4570Man]

+1 on avoiding issues with Part 90. As anyone with a ham license knows the FCC doesn't mess around with fines on that stuff(easily gets into the 5 figures).

Best way to keep people flying down the street is probably make it physically impossible. I'd work with you local town/county to see what you can do to get speed bumps installed. If it's a residential road it should be pretty straightforward.

I'm sure that would go over well with the snowplow driver.

 

[vvanders]

I believe the licensing may be dependent on power level, frequency, and emission type and may be covered under part 15 for low power devices such as 'radar' sensing on a door opener in a store or similar which will set off a radar detector. Also newer cars have a collision detection which evidently use K band transmit/receive frequencies. My own detector will alarm continuously if I get behind a car equipped with this from several hundred feet back.
Is your radar detector just a new-car detector? - Autoblog

Part 15 > https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Documents/bulletins/oet63/oet63rev.pdf

Missed this before but licensing is generally in reference to the operator not the part, Part 15 stuff still needs to be certified which isn't a cheap process(and is also how a lot of electronics gets leaked early by people reading the FCC database). Getting something certified that is intentionally causes interference on regulated bands is going to be very tricky to get labeled as Part 15 certified. If I remember there's quite a few statutes around intentional interference and the link above allows different power limits for different uses(control signals for instance are 25x larger than "any" transmission for instance).

RF spectrum is an incredibly fragile thing and so they don't mess around with it(you'll notice the end of that document talks about $100k fines + $10 per day for a Part 15 violation).

 

[vvanders]

I'm sure that would go over well with the snowplow driver.

Yeah, fair enough. I just don't want to see the OP get nailed if his radar transmitter ends up stomping on RF spectrum. There's a lot of retired hams out there that can be a bit overzealous about that sort of stuff.

 

[Newblue]

I know back in the 90s these would set off radar detectors. Not sure about newer detectors.

DICKEY-john | Radar II

 

[boggen]

i completely gave up watching tv. so no clue if they still due it or not. but at one time a couple news stations, you could call them up. and say, hey, i got me some speed whacko's going past my home, could you bring out the camera radar trailer and set it up at my house? then nightly news a quick 30 second flash about it and amount of folks getting caught. some get fined, some get camera ticketed, some involve actual police pulling folks over.

police love setting up in unknown spots as they move around. contact your local police make it city, town, township, county, state. and see what they might be able to do as well. such as, about this time of day i get a lot of speeders coming down the road, with x amount of vehicles over 1 to 3 hours or some such. give them something, to make it worth there time, of being able to come out and nail some folks with traffic violations.

no idea how it is anymore with laws, but might be worth writing something up and going in and speaking, and saying hey, you can park in my driveway, to catch speeders.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Get you a life sized picture of Buford T. Justice standing next to his patrol car and put it on the side of the street.

 

[TheMan419]

Drone strikes.

 

[boggen]

down the road from me. a house lives directly across from a T intersection.

over the years a couple folks went straight through T and into some bushes in front of house.

finally someone wrecked right into the house.

a caution electric light was installed. along with speed bumps on the pave'ed road.

and when they installed speed bumps, it must of went crazy with someone. because speed bumps coming up to stop signs went up everywhere.

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i would imagine, if you had option to cut down tree's and bushes, to make your view larger for getting out of driveway would help. like it or not. it may be best thing to do. assuming trees and bushes are on your property.

if tree and bushes are not on your property, there most likely some law/reg/ordinance. for how much stuff needs to be trimmed back from side of road. so folks can see, and if need be get off to the side of the road.

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i have seen "caution blind children" and like yellow signs before. and some times just "caution children playing" big old diamond shape sign, yellow/orange in color.

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sign "trucks entering/exit" ahead
granted i tend to think of it more of semi-trucks and trailers. and like type of trucks, and they needing large turns, and slow turns to make it. but *shrugs* if ya getting T boned.

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if other side of road is not a house. someone suggested "mirror/s" and placing them across the road.

 

[Tomtint]

I'm sure that would go over well with the snowplow driver.

We had a few "old townie" residents bug our selectman enough to get speed humps approved on 4 roads here. They are about 6" tall and 48" wide and cross the entire road. Probably every 800' apart. They suck... especially if you are pulling a trailer. I have thought about starting a petition among the neighbors to have them removed. I suspect should there be a fire or medical emergency, they would hinder the response time of the ambulance or fire truck.