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Re:Swarmsourcing: Radar Detection by ovi256 on Thursday December 09, 2010 @08:20AM (#1987269)
If they don't emit any energy of their own, they are undetectable. Unless I'm missing something. You cannot passively detect another passive receiver.
Re:Swarmsourcing: Radar Detection by mjb on Thursday December 09, 2010 @08:30AM (#1987299)
> You cannot passively detect another passive receiver.

In general, there isn't really such a thing as a passive receiver. The typical radar receiver design will downmix the incoming signal to some lower frequency (IF) using its 'local oscillator'. Some of the energy from this oscillator will leak out of the receiver and be detectable. This is only one of several possibilities for detecting receivers.

So no, not undetectable, but much harder than detecting an active transmitter.

Re:Swarmsourcing: Radar Detection by wglb on Sunday December 12, 2010 @11:33AM (#1997295)
This is almost always true, but there is at least one interesting exception: http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/cgi-bin/commerce.exe?preadd...

I imagine for dedicated listeners, there might be others.

Re:Swarmsourcing: Radar Detection by ruslan on Thursday December 09, 2010 @07:41PM (#1990001)
Are you joking ? How do you distinguish this "leaked oscillation" coming from radar-detector from all other pieces of electronics your car is stuffed up with ? Say, from your car stereo ?