Radar – laser detectors and jammers blog
19
Aug
Back when I retired from law enforcement and began my new career in the speed counter measurement industry back in 1997 Mike Valentine’s V1 was the very best radar detector on the market. Since there has been allot of innovation in our industry and it seems that it has flew by Mike unnoticed. Stealth to [...]
3
Aug
In 2007 we had gathered together a group of radar detector enthusiasts, a few manufacture reps from Escort, Bel and Whistler and the Guys of Lidar for a radar detector shoot-out in Wickenburg. One uninvited guest who crashed our event was the CEO of Laser Interceptor, Ivan. Ivan related that he heard about our test [...]
1
May
The ultimate test for any laser jammer would be to install one on a large motor home or semi truck, well back in 2007 we did just that! During the 2007 “Guys of Lidar” test we installed four Laser Interceptor laser jammer heads on my 45 foot long Freightliner motor home. To make matters even [...]
1
May
One of the passions in life my wife Margie and I share is jumping on our Harley Davidson motorcycles and hitting the open highway for a weekend trip here in the South West or heading up to Sturgis South Dakota for the week long motorcycle rally. As I’m an “iron butt” rider, my Screamin Eagle [...]
19
Apr
Back in January we installed Escort’s QI45 radar detector in our Toyota Sequoia and for the past couple months we have logged over 1200 miles and a handful of saves from police radar and laser traps. As the QI45 is built on the Escort 8500 X50 platform we found the QI45’s overall performance to be [...]
31
Jan
During my 14 year career in the speed counter measurement industry I’ve perhaps installed over 300 remote mounted radar detectors for clients on everything from cars, trucks, RV’s, motorcycles and even a few tour buses for a few notable rock and roll and country western bands. Typical installs can take me a couple hours and [...]
10
Jan
The “Pocket Radar”, the world’s only pocket-sized personal speed radar device made its début at this year’s CES show and I’m sure that this device will be a must have for radar detector enthusiasts for either testing their own radar detectors or to watch panic faces of fellow radar detector users as they set off [...]
5
Nov
The SEMA show, held each November in Las Vegas, is one of my favorite annual automotive events as companies that specialize in speed countermeasure equipment show off their new gadgets designed to outsmart law enforcement speed enforcement technology. Another plus is that Las Vegas is only an hour and a half flight in my Cessna [...]
16
Oct
Several years ago I posted a warning here on our blog warning of the dangers of purchasing a radar detector from unauthorized retailers such those advertising on Ebay/Amazon or even Overstock.com. A few days ago a user named Carlos found my warning after purchasing two defective radar detectors from Overstock; here is his story along [...]
10
Sep
Michael Churchman and his crew over at Rocky Mountain Radar must be really pissed off at us today because I just checked the Best Buy website and all of his models sold under the Rocky Mountain Radar brand have been removed! I first want to thank all of the users of RadarDetector.net and my followers [...]
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