A single chip radio transceiver includes circuitry that enables detection of radar signals to enable the radio transceiver to halt communications in overlapping communication bands to avoid interference with the radar transmitting the radar pulses. One design goal, however, is to avoid false triggers that result from spurious tones and omissions and that further detects radar signals even in circumstances in which a radar pulse has been masked or eliminated by interference. Accordingly, the radar detection block includes circuitry for detecting and measuring the radar signals in the presence of such interference. More specifically, the radar detection block includes a moving average filter, a threshold comparison state machine, and radar detection logic within software that is executed by a processor for determining whether a radar signal is present.