[Shotimes] Radar/Laser Detectors

[Donald Mallinson]

A controlled situation has the detectors tesed in the same 
exact car, same location on the dash/window, at the same 
location on the road.

When cars are side by side, they are several feet apart. 
Different location.  Yes you can predict where radar will go 
when you KNOW the situation, but going 130+ on a public 
highway isn't a controlled situation.  Make sense?

As for $50 detector being just as good, most tests prove 
that there is a big difference in how far away and in what 
situations different detectors will pick up the signal. 
This isn't guessing, this is reality.

So if a $50 unit is just as good as the most expensive, why 
not use them in aircraft in the military?  If you really are 
a radar technician, and I have no reason to doubt it, then 
you should know that quality does count in detectors.

And as has been said a lot, there are a lot of good 
detectors out there.  You don't have to have a V1 to find 
out if there is radar in the area.  You want more 
information than that, you need something other than a $50 unit.

Don Mallinson

D Potter wrote:
> Well, Don, if this situation of two SHO's being next to each other isn't a
> good enough test, then neither are any tests that have been performed on the
> units. If radar waves behave in odd ways in uncontrolled situations, then no
> amount of testing will tell you which system performs best on the road. I
> guess that's why my $50 unit works as well as any $300 unit.
> 
> Then again, when I worked for unca sam as a RADAR technician, I was always
> told that there was no such thing as uncontrolled situations, but that
> failures would come from unobservant users.