There we met the inventor, mid-forties at the time, who quickly rattled off his career highlights: electronic warfare design engineer for Texas Instruments, radar detector designer, radar jammer inventor. A woman greeted us at the door and ushered us past a baby stroller and into a basement workshop, corporate headquarters of fledgling Rocky Mountain Radar. To learn more, we arrived at a split-level home in Highlands Ranch, southwest of Denver. We tracked down the source, Michael Churchman, proprietor of RMR and inventor of these radar jammers, and found that he was a fellow Denver resident. Someone offering a $199 radar jammer merited a closer look. But only a government agency can afford it. If you know where to look, this technology is available. To prevail, the jammer must decode a signal and broadcast a modulated reply that's accepted as legit. Brute-force attacks are a waste of time modern radar's Digital Signal Processor (DSP) can easily spot a jamming signal and ignore it. If that's not enough of a deterrent, cost certainly is. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rides shotgun on the nation's airwaves, radar included, and tends to go ballistic on the subject. There's an easy explanation for this: Possession of a working radar jammer is a federal felony, good for a fine, jail time or both. But historically, effective radar jammers have been nigh impossible to find. Invisibility to police radar strikes an instant chord among drivers. Ads in auto-enthusiast and trucker magazines read: "Radar Jammer, 'No More Tickets.' New technology makes cars invisible to radar, yet 100 percent legal." Our history with RMR dates from late 1992 when we noticed its first efforts, the Spirit and the Eclipse. But it's unusual for a company to claim a first-place finish in a test that included none of its products. Winning a test like this can be worth millions in sales. Schultz was referring to a comparison test we'd recently done for Automobile magazine. They claim that the 'Mini' was not included in your test but had a total score of '100?' Any comments to this claim? Thanks for your help." A typical query, this one from Paul Schultz: "I ran across an item on eBay for a radar detector called the Mini-D which they say blows away the Escort 8500. ![]() For years we've received inquiries about Rocky Mountain Radar (RMR) products.
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