Who has the best Radar detector??

[FLX109]

I am Looking for something that really works, anyone have any information? I hate to buy one blind, all the companies that sell them say they all work great, from jammers to lazers.



FLX109

[tim721]

Valentine 1, hands down..

http://www.valentine1.com/

[Steve Miehe]

Agree with Tim - V1 is the best.

[FLX109]

What about the Rocky Mountain RMR-C450 with a voice alert system and scrambler?
are they any good? they say they will pay your fine for a year.

[Falconeer]

The Valentine 1 has saved my ass many times! Never fails!!

[txlen]

only one answer here...Valentine one!!!!

[NOTV8]

Get Valentine 1 and you can't go wrong.

[joe117]

V1

And scramblers are BS.

In order to work it would need to transmit a signal, it would be illegal.

It can be done but no big manufacturer could get away with selling it.

Some guy could sell jammers out of his basement shop. Not a big company.

I spent many years doing electronic warfare work for the Navy.
Just playing around, we made police radar jammers that worked in the lab. It's not hard. Getting one to work on a radar when you don't know exactly where the radar is will be a bigger problem.

Believe me. I know what it takes.

There are non transmit methods, with reflectors that get turned on and off in order to reflect pulses back to the radar.

In order to work, the reflector needs to be too large to be practical.

Commercial laser jammers can work. There are no laws against sending out laser energy.

[FLX109]

Looks like I will be looking for a Valentine 1

thanks everyone

FLX109

[Got_Vnum]

Just got an Escort X50, havent had the chance to try it out yet as the car is being worked on. In the Speedlabs test it provided better warning against POP. Im sure the V1 is great too, just didnt care for its looks.

http://www.speedzones.com/

Quoting from Speedzone, "It is a federal felony punishable by up to one year in jail and a $75,000.00 fine to “jam or attempt to jam” a police radar gun."

Laser jammers work and are legal (for now). Read the article for more info.

[Woody]

Got my V1 Friday. Possibly already paid for itself. Well worth the money!

[Randy]

Just got an Escort X50, havent had the chance to try it out yet as the car is being worked on. In the Speedlabs test it provided better warning against POP. Im sure the V1 is great too, just didnt care for its looks.

Speedzone didn't test against the current Valentine-1, which has POP.

Looks of the detector really don't matter, its how it works. Most of us here won't do without the directional arrows, which are only on a Valentine-1. Try one sometime - you'll forget what it looks like.

[Schulmann]

I don't know which one is the best but I know which one is not ...

Escort's Passport 8500 X50 is a marketing bull****.

I bought this Escort X50 in August 2004 to drive down to VOI 8 in Dallas as fast as possible. I nearly got a stroke on the labor week-end because of this radar detector. It is as effective as a $50 radar detector. When you cruise at 100-120mph and suddenly you hear the alarm to go full range you have maybe 1-2 seconds to break.
Then after you hit the break and you look into your rear mirror see your buddies' tires smoking like hell. And this happened several times during that week-end ...

[CitySnake]

Most of us here won't do without the directional arrows, which are only on a Valentine-1.

YEP! Really helpful when you get a cop car approaching from the rear. The V1 is the best working detector out there.

[got one]

What do you guys need the detectors for...your not speeding are you?