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02-18-2009, 04:50 PM
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So every time i drive by the Kalamazoo airport my cop, or radar detector gets a "LASER" alert... The road runs parrarell to the main runway 17-35 which has an ILS.. only thing i can think of making it go off. Any other ideas?
02-18-2009, 05:03 PM
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ILS freqs are 100-300 MHz. Radar freqs are in the tens of gigaherz, so it's probably not the ILS triggering your detector. It's possible that the energy output from the ILS is powerful enough to trip the detector by energizing internal circuits, as opposed to the antenna (which is tuned in the gigaherz range).
The airport radar might do it too, that would be closer to the right freq.
The airport radar might do it too, that would be closer to the right freq.
02-18-2009, 05:27 PM
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It was pretty funny the first time it happened i just bolted down a side street, then the next time i realized it was something at the airport triggering this to happen.. Oh well.
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02-19-2009, 06:39 AM
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Unfortunately this was a laser detector - has nothing to do with radar. Some type of light beam is setting the thing off - proximity to an airport may be coincidental. It might actually be a laser. Might the fuzz have set up a camera type (automated) speed trap there?
02-19-2009, 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by rotorhead1026
Unfortunately this was a laser detector - has nothing to do with radar. Some type of light beam is setting the thing off - proximity to an airport may be coincidental. It might actually be a laser. Might the fuzz have set up a camera type (automated) speed trap there?
Good point.. about right at the point i get this "laser alert" is at the approach end of runway 5 which has a PAPI, maybe this could be it?
02-19-2009, 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by rotorhead1026
Unfortunately this was a laser detector - has nothing to do with radar. Some type of light beam is setting the thing off - proximity to an airport may be coincidental. It might actually be a laser. Might the fuzz have set up a camera type (automated) speed trap there?
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