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"Batching" -
Answer✅
Another special problem that only applies to moving RADAR. This is caused by slight time
lags in the moving RADAR's instrument's sensing/computing cycle. It can also produce low
or high target speed results.
This effect might happen if the patrol car is substantially changing its speed (rapidly
accelerating or decelerating while the RADAR speed measurements are being made).
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"Jamming" -
Answer✅
Purposeful attempts to create false or distorted RADAR signals.
The most common device is a RADAR frequency transmitter
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"Range" -
Answer✅
1
, this setting on your RADAR unit does not mean the length of the transmitted beam. It is
adjusting the sensitivity of the RADAR receiver. It means how far away an object can still be
"seen" by our speed measuring RADAR
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"Ranging" -
Answer✅
is where an instrument will provide you with the distance to the target vehicle you are
tracking
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4 Items that each applicant for the RADAR Operator Training Course shall be in
compliance with prior to course enrollment. -
Answer✅
1. Be employed or appointed as a law enforcement officer by a State or local law
enforcement agency, or be a federal law enforcement officer. They shall possess a
probationary or general law enforcement certification
2. If the applicant is a deputy sheriff, he/she must be in compliance with NC Sheriff's
Education and Training Standards Commission
3. Present the endorsement of a commission-recognized school director or law
enforcement agency executive officer or his designee
4. Provide for practice and testing, a vehicle and the RADAR instrument on which the
trainee seeks certification
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65% of all fatal crashes occur in a speed zone of? -
Answer✅
55 MPH or more
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, Quiz_________________?
A beam whose angle is 11 degrees will be more 38 feet wide at what point down the road? -
Answer✅
200 feet down the road
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A beam whose angle is 11 degrees will be more than 57 fete wide at what point down the
road? -
Answer✅
300 feet down the road
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A key to voluntary cooperation to speed limits lies with who? -
Answer✅
Law Enforcement. Motorists must be reminded that the laws are there and will be enforced
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A RADAR beam has what shape? -
Answer✅
A cone shape
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A RADAR beam will go on forever until: -
Answer✅
3
, Either absorbed, reflected, or refracted.
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A-B-C method of RADAR assembly -
Answer✅
Antenna to Box to Current
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Above and beyond the establishment of the speed of the vehicle, the officer must also be
able to what? -
Answer✅
Prove that a particular speed law was violated, that the defendant was in fact the driver of
the vehicle at the time of the offense, and that the offense occurred on a public
thoroughfare
1. Officer must be prepared to demonstrate he/she observed the vehicle for enough time,
and under sufficient circumstances to form an opinion concerning its speed
2. Vehicle must have been observed for enough time to identify it
3. Officer's testimony must include sufficient details to explain how they identified a
speeding vehicle
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Absolute Speed Limit -
Answer✅
the maximum or minimum posted speed at which one may drive under normal conditions
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