Radar Detectors

[Perfectlap]

RN,
a PBA card is like a get out of jail free card. My friend whose entire family is in law enforcement has about 12 of them. He has a gold one, a platinum one, one signed by the mayor of a city here in NJ, one with the president of the NJ PBA's name on it (made of metal). Basically the routine is you get pulled over you hand them your license and the card, they ask who gave you the card you sayyour brother in law, he says "slow down" and lets you leave. Some cops will keep this card others give it back, and some hard core maniac cops will still give you a ticket.
PBA= Police Benevolence Assoc.
Yeah those little sticker badges never work..

[FUHRIUS]

I'd never have spent $2k on it, but the previous owner did...K40 laser detector / jammer and radar detector, sensor units front and rear, and all displays integrated into the dash...very clean set up.
It has saved me on a few occassions already.

[andicati]

RandallNeighbour: I don't knowo if this is any longer true, but my understanding was that the jammers were only legal if they modified an FM signal in some way. Basically, it is illegal to transmit any form of radio wave (radar in the speeding context is a generic term that incorporates a wide range of wavelengths - hence the X through Ka bands, and the so called laser in the invisible spectrum) without a radio license. Now I understood that the jammers worked by detecting a radar signal and then adding an FM chirp to it so that what is reflected is perceived as garbage by the cop's detector. Seems to make sense when you consider the laws involved.

However, a friend of mine has a Phazer (in an Explorer incidentally, but that is another story) and the entire time he was driving behind me I was receiving a very stong signal from him. I let him pass and the V1 showed him moving to the side then to the front. So, I conclude from this and other observations on the road that the jammers are actively broadcasting a signal on the Ka band, the same band as instant on.

Why no one has decelared this illegal beats me? The conspiracy theorist in me suggests that the authorities are actually welcoming this as it must surely be generating far more false positives than the innumerous automatic door openers at the Walmarts and gas stations which now litter the X and K band. Also, why haven't Valentine responded with a jammer?

[Subanez]

Everyone always talks about the V1, and I agree, its a nice detector. However, I use the Passport 8500 X50, the new upgrade, and MAN is it good.

I don't have any fancy wiring or cool places to hide it...I just place it front and center, and it'll pick up cops from very far off.

I don't really speed that often, but when I do, its usually pretty, uh, speedy. So I enjoy this little detector, and wanted to vouch for it amidst all the 'V1 propganda' out there.