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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 12, 1997
Michael David Valentine, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Clarence Richard Groth, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Stephen Ray Scholl, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Valentine Research, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A frequency scheme for a police radar detector enables the K band and the K.sub.a band to be scanned during a single sweep of a local oscillator which drives a mixer at its fundamental operating mode to produce intermediate frequency signals around 5 Ghz. The frequency scheme simultaneously activates two or four frequency conversion paths in the police radar detector. Accordingly, a radar warning alarm can be given upon detection of radar signals in any one of the frequency conversion paths. The ambiguity as to which one of the two or four frequency conversion paths is receiving a detected radar signal is resolved by applying first and second modulation signals to first and second local oscillators, respectively, so that the radar band of the detected radar signal can also be included within the radar warning alarm. The first and second modulation signals are in quadrature to one another and quadrature correlation is used to determine which frequency conversion path is receiving a radar signal.