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RADAR DETECTORS POLL
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Former police officer here. I can not tell you how many speeding tickets I gave out to people with Detectors sitting on the dash. Now, radar does not transmit continuously. Used to, radar would transmit continuously which is how the radar detector found the cops. Now, however, the newer radar systems have pulse buttons on it. So, the radar gun does not send out any signal at all until the cop pushes the transmit button after seeing you. Then, it is too late. He has his reading and you have your ticket.
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ORIGINAL: rednblackdawg
Former police officer here. I can not tell you how many speeding tickets I gave out to people with Detectors sitting on the dash. Now, radar does not transmit continuously. Used to, radar would transmit continuously which is how the radar detector found the cops. Now, however, the newer radar systems have pulse buttons on it. So, the radar gun does not send out any signal at all until the cop pushes the transmit button after seeing you. Then, it is too late. He has his reading and you have your ticket.
Former police officer here. I can not tell you how many speeding tickets I gave out to people with Detectors sitting on the dash. Now, radar does not transmit continuously. Used to, radar would transmit continuously which is how the radar detector found the cops. Now, however, the newer radar systems have pulse buttons on it. So, the radar gun does not send out any signal at all until the cop pushes the transmit button after seeing you. Then, it is too late. He has his reading and you have your ticket.
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From: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
RE: RADAR DETECTORS POLL
ORIGINAL: code3GT
There is an art to using a radar detector. If you don't know how and when to use it, no matter how good it is, you will still get OWNED.
There is an art to using a radar detector. If you don't know how and when to use it, no matter how good it is, you will still get OWNED.
^^^^^^^ This is very true, and also as rednblackdawg said they have a pulse button on their radar guns, so the only way to decect this is to have someone else in front of you that the cop clocks and you will pick up his radar. On the highway I will try and find someone that is going as fast as I am of faster and sit a little way behind them and in the right hand lane if he continues to drive in the left, that way if the cop in in the middle of the road (which is where they usually are) the other guy will get clocked first and if you are in the right position (about 2-3 car lenghts behind and to the right) the radar is blocked by his car and you are safe. I have driven this way for years and it totally works. But as code3 said it does take a while to learn how to use the rader diector. BTW I have a Bel 995 and love it, has saved me from a few tickets!!! well worth the money IMO if you have a heavy foot
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ORIGINAL: kubball2005
Point taken, but they do pick up signals of cops coming over hills. Mine has saved me numerous times when I was going enough over for a cop to stop me.
Point taken, but they do pick up signals of cops coming over hills. Mine has saved me numerous times when I was going enough over for a cop to stop me.
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ORIGINAL: DIVER8374
^^^^^^^ This is very true, and also as rednblackdawg said they have a pulse button on their radar guns, so the only way to decect this is to have someone else in front of you that the cop clocks and you will pick up his radar. On the highway I will try and find someone that is going as fast as I am of faster and sit a little way behind them and in the right hand lane if he continues to drive in the left, that way if the cop in in the middle of the road (which is where they usually are) the other guy will get clocked first and if you are in the right position (about 2-3 car lenghts behind and to the right) the radar is blocked by his car and you are safe. I have driven this way for years and it totally works. But as code3 said it does take a while to learn how to use the rader diector. BTW I have a Bel 995 and love it, has saved me from a few tickets!!! well worth the money IMO if you have a heavy foot
ORIGINAL: code3GT
There is an art to using a radar detector. If you don't know how and when to use it, no matter how good it is, you will still get OWNED.
There is an art to using a radar detector. If you don't know how and when to use it, no matter how good it is, you will still get OWNED.
^^^^^^^ This is very true, and also as rednblackdawg said they have a pulse button on their radar guns, so the only way to decect this is to have someone else in front of you that the cop clocks and you will pick up his radar. On the highway I will try and find someone that is going as fast as I am of faster and sit a little way behind them and in the right hand lane if he continues to drive in the left, that way if the cop in in the middle of the road (which is where they usually are) the other guy will get clocked first and if you are in the right position (about 2-3 car lenghts behind and to the right) the radar is blocked by his car and you are safe. I have driven this way for years and it totally works. But as code3 said it does take a while to learn how to use the rader diector. BTW I have a Bel 995 and love it, has saved me from a few tickets!!! well worth the money IMO if you have a heavy foot
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From: IL
RE: RADAR DETECTORS POLL
ORIGINAL: rednblackdawg
Former police officer here. I can not tell you how many speeding tickets I gave out to people with Detectors sitting on the dash. Now, radar does not transmit continuously. Used to, radar would transmit continuously which is how the radar detector found the cops. Now, however, the newer radar systems have pulse buttons on it. So, the radar gun does not send out any signal at all until the cop pushes the transmit button after seeing you. Then, it is too late. He has his reading and you have your ticket.
Former police officer here. I can not tell you how many speeding tickets I gave out to people with Detectors sitting on the dash. Now, radar does not transmit continuously. Used to, radar would transmit continuously which is how the radar detector found the cops. Now, however, the newer radar systems have pulse buttons on it. So, the radar gun does not send out any signal at all until the cop pushes the transmit button after seeing you. Then, it is too late. He has his reading and you have your ticket.
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From: IL
RE: RADAR DETECTORS POLL
ORIGINAL: Tims 88GT
http://www.radar-detector-shop.co.uk...er-jammers.htm
This is what you need im gettin one soon.
http://www.radar-detector-shop.co.uk...er-jammers.htm
This is what you need im gettin one soon.
Save your money cheif. The spray on a laser gun is so small that he would actually have to hit the detector or jammer for that to work. The spread is just over an inch wide. Odds are that thing will never jam a radar signal.
But what do I know. Let me know if it works if you buy one.
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ORIGINAL: sidewayz4.6
Thats all fine and dandy, but my Valentine picks it up so far away that it will pick up stray radar signals from the car you're currently clocking. So they do work. Saved me 10,000,000 times. I've had a radar detector in my cars for over 10 years. I've had many different ones. I was sold on the Passports, but after getting the Valentine. Man...There is no comparison. It also does a WAY better job of filtering out the false signals so you're not locking up the brakes for no reason.
Thats all fine and dandy, but my Valentine picks it up so far away that it will pick up stray radar signals from the car you're currently clocking. So they do work. Saved me 10,000,000 times. I've had a radar detector in my cars for over 10 years. I've had many different ones. I was sold on the Passports, but after getting the Valentine. Man...There is no comparison. It also does a WAY better job of filtering out the false signals so you're not locking up the brakes for no reason.