Police Traffic Radar

Police Traffic Radar
Author: United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher:
Total Pages: 50
Release: 1980
Genre: Radar in speed limit enforcement
ISBN:

Police Radar Basics

Police Radar Basics
Author: Donald Sawicki
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2015-03-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781508975519

Easy to understand and fully illustrated description of everything every driver, and the police, should know about traffic speed radar. Police radars are not just point (at target) and click (transmit) devices. There are some basic setup limitations and operating procedures that must be observed. Too often procedures are not properly followed in order to save a little time or hide from motorists, resulting in speed errors. This book details radar types and operating modes, proper use and test (including the widely misunderstood tuning fork test), limitations, calibration records, and how Doppler radar works. Anyone that operates a police radar should already understand everything presented. However, far too many operators don't remember or don't use what they were taught in radar training.

Police Radar Handbook

Police Radar Handbook
Author: Donald Sawicki
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Radar in speed limit enforcement
ISBN: 9781482776683

Did you ever get a radar or lidar speeding ticket even through you weren't speeding, chances are the officer was not properly setup or misinterpreted the radar reading. The radar was not measuring you but a different vehicle or a false alarm. In many cases the radar was setup in a way it could not possibly measure your vehicle. Microwave radars measure the strongest vehicle reflection, not always the closest vehicle. Microwave radars have sensitive receivers, nearby transmitters and high power sources can induce false signals and false speed readings. Moving mode radar has multiple sources for incorrect speed readings that depends on traffic close to the radar and reflective stationary objects, like guardrails or highway signs. Lidars can produce a false reading if the target vehicle is greater than about 500 feet, the beam spread is wide enough to cause problems. At closer ranges the narrow beam must be aimed at the same vehicle surface or risk a speed error from 1 to 25 mph. Additionally lidars will produce a false speed reading by scanning the ground, no moving targets required. The Police Radar Handbook has the answers as to why you might have received that undeserved citation. The book explains proper radar and lidar use, and results of improper use. In many instances errors are predictable knowing just the general setup.

Public Collectors

Public Collectors
Author: Marc Fischer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2014
Genre: Collectibles
ISBN: 9781941753026

Established in 2007 by Marc Fischer, and featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Public Collectors encourages collectors of material culture--the kind that most museums won't exhibit--to 'open' their collections to the public. Extending the popular website of the same name, this book presents a wide array of collections--some featured on the website, most newly assembled for publication--interspersed with commentary and essays exploring the problems and politics of collecting materials that may lack conventional monetary or cultural value.