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I was wondering if someone could share some experience with or recommend a good, economical radar detector. Yes, I know...no one should speed....but everyone does, cuz speed limits are boring.
way overpriced, overrated, and much more effective ones available, and 360 deg coverage isn't even necessary since ur immune from the side! and they asked for something economicalValentine 1....simply put..The best on the market, TRUE (or close as it can get) 360 degree detection[/b]
i'm sorry but u do not know what you're talking about at all, it really pisses me off when people go around talking about deceiving products recommending them when they know nothing about it at all. they are a scam (i'm not even gonna bother using the word allegedly here) simply put. sure their concept sounds great, but it's not feasible. also i've taken apart their "jammers" and their laser jamming device is just a basic led diode, the circuitry inside basically just controls the oscillating indicator leds, there is no circuitry that collects and bounces back the signal like they claim, nor is their a real receiver that could electronically collect radar. even IF someone did manufacture a real device which collected and bounced back radar, it would be ineffective also. the surface area of the "jammer" is a couple square inches (the radar it would supposedly collect), the surface area of any one side of your car is thousands of square inches; it would only be bouncing back like .001% of the radar that hit your car. for it to be even possibly effective, the radar that was bounced back would need to be amplified thousands of times and outpower the other radar that effectively bounced off of your car many times over, so you would be driving around with a weapon that would be frying other people and things whenever radar hit it. rocky mountain radar is completely nonsense. basically what they are selling is useless black boxes with an insurance policy. the insurance policy is also mostly useless in my opinion, read the fine print. actually to be fair i suppose the are not all useless, a few of them have working detectors, but low quality ones, u could go to kmart and buy a cheap radar detector that would work better than theirs which cost hundreds. ask any physicist, or just buy one urself and waste ur money.buy a rocky mountain radar jammer, detectors are pointless when cops leave the gun of until they hit u. in texas jammers are legal.[/b]
yes the passport 8500 is one of the best detectors out there, what tests are u referring to about the valentine one? many of the editors are rumored (notice use of wording) to be paid togive them better reviews than they deserve. yeah the val 1 is old, i really believe if they invested some money to update it, including its circuitry, it very well could be the best on the market, but until then, buy a 8500 or bel 985 if u want top of the line, but he did say economical, i would suggest the bel 910, that is very affordable, (from what i remember less than $100) and effective, and my experiances with bel have been great, very high quality.The Passport 8500 has scored very well in recent tests, as has the Valentine 1 since it came out a million years ago.[/b]
The best way to avoid the police knowing you have a detector is to take it apart and build it into the dash.Originally posted by acreature@Feb 9 2004, 09:28 PM
Having received a ticket while using a Radar Detector, and now writing 15 and over tickets to people with Radar Detectors...... The best way to avoid tickets is to be honest when caught. That's still a 50/50 shot![]()
I have yet to notice a radar that is "The Best". They are all weak in one way or another, and just like Computers, the Radar and Radar Detector of today is obsolete next week.
Originally posted by mk7@Feb 10 2004, 02:45 AM
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yes the passport 8500 is one of the best detectors out there, what tests are u referring to about the valentine one? many of the editors are rumored (notice use of wording) to be paid togive them better reviews than they deserve. yeah the val 1 is old, i really believe if they invested some money to update it, including its circuitry, it very well could be the best on the market, but until then, buy a 8500 or bel 985 if u want top of the line, but he did say economical, i would suggest the bel 910, that is very affordable, (from what i remember less than $100) and effective, and my experiances with bel have been great, very high quality. [/b][/quote]The Passport 8500 has scored very well in recent tests, as has the Valentine 1 since it came out a million years ago.
The detector I got at RadioShack (that is supposedly a rebranded Cobra) has the VG2 technology. AFAIK, generally speaking, I have heard many good things about Cobras. Anwyays, The VG2 stuff works really well. I have noticed that only the state cops have the "detector detectors" in my area but, sure enough, anytime that alarm goes off there is a state cop nearby checking speeds. So it seems to be a pretty reliable technology. My instruction manual says that my detector actually stops detecting radar AND laser (making it useless) once a "detector detector" is detected, lol - then it reactivates itself when the "detector detector" is gone. hope this makes sense, lolOriginally posted by dant98@Feb 10 2004, 11:34 AM
I believe detectors are only illegal in a few states. For instance... the detector is legal here in MD and illegal in DC and VA.
I have a question though.. How about these VG2 sensor technology.. the so called Radar detector detector detection? First of all, are modern radar detectors that easy to detect and second of all, does this VG2 technology really mask the radar detector from radar detector detector technology?
Wes recently bought a 12 band cobra Laser and radar detector that's supposed to have VG2 technology... is cobra good stuff?
-Dan
FYI.. The Passports you mentioned are listed at about $240 on eBay right now as "buy it now" auctions.