Falcon
Kustom Electronics, Inc.
CPL Approved.
OPERATION
- Hand-held Radar Gun
(power: car battery-cord/plug)
- K band
- Instant On or continuous
- stationary mode
- measures on-coming traffic only
- Audio Doppler (Target)
- Manual Lock (Speed)
- sample rate: approx 7 readings/sec (143 ms)
- supplied with tuning fork (50 mph, K band)
fork resonance 3565 - 3637 Hz
CONTROLS
- Transmit / Standby (Instant On)
HOLD pressed in -- radar in standby (not transmitting)
HOLD released -- radar continuously transmitting
- Manual-Lock (LOCK/REL -- lock or release target speed on display)
- Range Control (6 increments)
- Audio Squelch (SQ/UNSQ -- squelch or unsquelch Doppler audio tone)
- Self-test
TEST - simulates 32 mph target
LAMP TEST - illuminates all LEDs
- Power/Volume (on/off and Doppler audio volume)
DISPLAYS / INDICATORS
- Display (LED) -- Target Speed: 15 to 199 mph
- Speaker (audio Doppler tone)
- Indicators
HOLD -- radar in standby (not transmitting)
RFI -- Radio Frequency Interference present (operation inhibited)
XTL ERR -- crystal oscillator failure (operation inhibited)
Lo Volt -- battery below 10.8 Vdc (operation inhibited)
INTERNAL FUNCTIONS
- Auto Calibration - automatically checks crystal oscillators before target speed displayed
- Specifications
ACCURACY +/-1 mph
MEASURING RANGE 15 to 199 mph
FREQUENCY 24.150 GHz +/-100 MHz (K band)
TRANSMIT POWER 12 mW (typical)
40 mW (maximum)
power density 0.31 mW/sq cm (at face of antenna)
ANTENNA conical horn
polarization circular
gain about 23 dBi
beamwidth 12 degrees (+/-1 degree)
side lobe -25 dB or better
POWER 10.8 to 16.5 Vdc
13.6 Vdc nominal
1 A max
ENVIRONMENTAL -30 to 60 degrees Celsius
(-22 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit)
90 percent humidity at 37 deg C
98.6 deg F
PHYSICAL height 8 in (20.32 cm), includes handle
length 10 in (25.4 cm)
width 3.3 in ( 8.38 cm)
WEIGHT 3 lb, 4 oz (1.4 kg)
RECEIVER low-noise Schottky Barrier diode mixer
MICROWAVE SOURCE Gunn-effect diode
claimed RANGE 2,500 feet (0.47 miles)
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