Installing the Ultimate “Bird Dog” for Truckers
Title 49 Section 329.71 of the Federal Motor Carrier regulations prohibits radar detectors in all commercial vehicles weighing over 10,000 pounds. Even with this ban the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimates that over 40 percent of tractors regularly use radar detectors.
Till recently truckers using radar detectors in their […]

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Beltronics STIr Install SUV
Several weeks I was honored as being one of the first to review the new Beltronics STI-r radar detector.
The STI-r is the first remote mounted detector that is not only capable to be invisible to the eye but also invisible to all the radar detector detector units such as the Spectre III […]

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Driver Experience Test
This morning the XTR-500 was next up for my low priced radar detector review. We plugged in the detector, stuck it on the windshield and headed out on our seventy five mile testing route.
The XTR-500 retails for $139.95 and is a corded all band voice radar detector.
The XTR-500 does have the blue dual […]

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Driver Experience Test
This evening my chapter of Arizona Choirboy’s Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club had a meeting in Phoenix and since I have been fighting off a nasty cough, I decided to plug in the Cobra XRS 9430 into my truck and head off to the meeting using the route I established for my “low priced […]

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Driver Experience Test
Over the past two weeks I have logged in over 1200 miles testing various low priced radar detectors for my “Low Priced Radar Detector Review”. This morning we are installing the Whistler XTR-190 for its road test.
The Whistler XTR-190’s retail price is $129.95 and is a cordless all band radar detector.
I’ve never been […]

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Driver Experience Test
Yesterday afternoon I installed the Cobra XRS9830 into my pickup for its road test for my “Low Priced Radar Detector Review”
The Cobra XRS9830 retail price is $209.95 and is a corded all band radar detector.
Again, Cobra uses what I would consider misleading advertising on their packaging indicating that the XRS9830 is a 12 […]

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Driver Experience Test
Early this morning afternoon we took the Whistler XTR-140 out for its road test on my 85 mile test route for my “Low Priced Radar Detector Review.”
The XTR-140 retails for $79.95 and is a corded all band radar detector. 
As I had a flight class scheduled at Buckeye airport at 8:00 and as the […]

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Driver Experience Test
Yesterday afternoon we took the Whistler XTR-185 out for a spin on our 85 mile test route for my “Low Priced Radar Detector Review.”
The XTR-185 retails for $139.95 and is a cordless all band radar detector. For those of you that have not been following my reviews I am not a big fan […]

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Driver Experience Test
Today we selected the Cobra ESD 7000 from our arsenal for my “Low Priced Radar Detector Review.” And I didn’t have to travel far to rate the performance or so should I say lack of, on this detector.
The Cobra ESD 7000 retails for as much as $59.95 and is advertised as being a […]

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Over the past several months there has been quite a bit of debate regarding the enforcement of patents in the radar detector and laser jamming industry on RadarDetector.net
Wikipdedia states that the elements of patent infringement includes any party that manufactures, uses, sells, or offers for sale patented technology during the term of the patent and […]

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