Camara Detector GPS/Laser do you need Radar as wel
Discussion
Due to the increasing number of cameras and speed traps around I have been thinking of getting a detector. I understand the benefits of GPS & Laser detection but do I need to spend the extra on radar as well? Will the radar detector cover anything the GPS & Laser will not?
I was told radar was older technology and is being phased out.
I have been thinking about the Snooper S4 as it looks quite easy to move between cars.
I was told radar was older technology and is being phased out.
I have been thinking about the Snooper S4 as it looks quite easy to move between cars.
To be clear on this:
For avoidance of both fixed Gatso and Truvelo units you must have a GPS-based positioning device (Road Angel, etc).
For old-fashioned radar you must have a detector (snooper, etc).
For laser-cameras you can only avoid them with a laser-jammer (Blinder, etc).
If you have a laser 'detector' all it will tell you is that you have been nicked. The warning comes as the laser 'paints' you as its target.
For about £600, maybe a bit less, you can get a GPS plus a laser-jammer unit. This should see you safe from most speed detedtion devices, unless you just ignore all the limits all the time, in which case you will be caught eventually.
For avoidance of both fixed Gatso and Truvelo units you must have a GPS-based positioning device (Road Angel, etc).
For old-fashioned radar you must have a detector (snooper, etc).
For laser-cameras you can only avoid them with a laser-jammer (Blinder, etc).
If you have a laser 'detector' all it will tell you is that you have been nicked. The warning comes as the laser 'paints' you as its target.
For about £600, maybe a bit less, you can get a GPS plus a laser-jammer unit. This should see you safe from most speed detedtion devices, unless you just ignore all the limits all the time, in which case you will be caught eventually.
I wasn't going to go down the laser jammer route. I am not a "boy racer" but have found myself just slipping over the legal limit when road conditions have allowed. I have a modern car and it is all to easy to do this without realising.
I do not want pay for a radar detector if it will not add any benefit. Are there enough mobile radar detectors around?
I do not want pay for a radar detector if it will not add any benefit. Are there enough mobile radar detectors around?
It seems as though a Road angel or similar would be ideal for you. They do warn about the most popular laser-camera sites as well, but not that the laser camera van is actually there.
IMHO the biggest threat to your licence is the laser-camera. Gatsos and Truvelos are much easier to see, but the vans hide and can move to different locations. So, the laser-jammer is probably the best counter-measure. The optimum way to use it is to brake and switch it off when you get the warning that it has activated its jamming in response to being 'painted' by a hostile laser. Then the camera operator, after initially getting an 'error' message will get a reading from you a few seconds later. No one has ruled them illegal yet, although one owner pleaded guilty to obstruction. He had, it appears, benn taking the proverbial with the scammers quite a bit.
IMHO the biggest threat to your licence is the laser-camera. Gatsos and Truvelos are much easier to see, but the vans hide and can move to different locations. So, the laser-jammer is probably the best counter-measure. The optimum way to use it is to brake and switch it off when you get the warning that it has activated its jamming in response to being 'painted' by a hostile laser. Then the camera operator, after initially getting an 'error' message will get a reading from you a few seconds later. No one has ruled them illegal yet, although one owner pleaded guilty to obstruction. He had, it appears, benn taking the proverbial with the scammers quite a bit.
bdr1700 said:
I wasn't going to go down the laser jammer route. I am not a "boy racer" but have found myself just slipping over the legal limit when road conditions have allowed.
Yup same as, but i have a jammer as 77MPH in a 70 on an NSL from a talivan in Wales made me jump......
Jammers are not only for the boy racers. I am a professional field service engineer who has been picked off for nothing more than a tad over. I got the jammer to protect my job. Cant even remember the last time I went over 80 on the motorway to be honest...
Go see:
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=98032&f=10&h=0
I still think all the detector vans around my way use radar, but perhaps as well as laser. Why? Because my Bel 550 radar detector (non-GPS, non-laser jammer) beeps when it finds them.
I think you need a system that includes radar detection (for the vans and mobile Gatsos), GPS (for specs and fixed radar traps....but your radar detector should detect these as well...but not the specs) AND POSSIBLY a jammer/diffuser as well, but using these is a legal grey area.
Right, I've said what I THINK is true, anyone else agree?
I think an Origin B2 plus jammer or Road Angel plus jammer would be fine. (Or Snooper S6neo plus jammer....but I am told these take ages to lock onto a satelite). The device you chose MUST have good old fashioned radar detection as well as jammer/laser detection/GPS because as I said, the vans around my way emit radar. If you approach the van and your radar detector goes mad, switch off the jammer. This will stop the cops rumbling you for having a jammer and "and perverting the course of justice".
I heard all this from a bloke down the pub.....so I don't know if any of it is true.
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=98032&f=10&h=0
I still think all the detector vans around my way use radar, but perhaps as well as laser. Why? Because my Bel 550 radar detector (non-GPS, non-laser jammer) beeps when it finds them.
I think you need a system that includes radar detection (for the vans and mobile Gatsos), GPS (for specs and fixed radar traps....but your radar detector should detect these as well...but not the specs) AND POSSIBLY a jammer/diffuser as well, but using these is a legal grey area.
Right, I've said what I THINK is true, anyone else agree?
I think an Origin B2 plus jammer or Road Angel plus jammer would be fine. (Or Snooper S6neo plus jammer....but I am told these take ages to lock onto a satelite). The device you chose MUST have good old fashioned radar detection as well as jammer/laser detection/GPS because as I said, the vans around my way emit radar. If you approach the van and your radar detector goes mad, switch off the jammer. This will stop the cops rumbling you for having a jammer and "and perverting the course of justice".
I heard all this from a bloke down the pub.....so I don't know if any of it is true.
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