Need Help
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Racer
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From: Bradenton Florida
Need Help
Hi, I am relatively new to the forum and am amazed at the wealth of info and even more so the friendliness and kindness everyone shows to each other. I am in a bit of a quandry. I will be picking up my new vert Dec. 22 at the NCM and then returning back to the west coast of Florida. I have read many of the threads, members' opinions, and different website reviews regarding radar detectors. I would be most interested in anyone who lives in Florida as to which detector has worked best for you. I think the local LEO uses both radar and laser and the state police are using mostly radar. I've heard the Val 1 is best for laser threats and the Bel and Escort are better at filtering junk. Please help- I need to get one really quick. Many thanks in advance.
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This topic has been beaten to DEATH! I will be honest... people who have each think theirs is best. No problem there...
I used to live in Delaware, and drove the I-95 corridor a LOT (my brother lives in Sebring).
My choice was the V1. There are filtering options built in that should tone down the junk, too. I just like the arrows/bogie counter.
Back in 2000, I was driving down I-95 from DE to FL. I was in SC, in this area, the median strip is VERY wide. I picked up a pot load of signals from in front, and slowed. There was a MASSIVE SCHP speed trap set up. I passed it at the speed limit, and continued south, still picking up the signals, this time from behind. However, the front started to go off again! The funny part? Those that missed the trap had already sped back up to 80+. I was sticking closer to the speed limit, mainly, because my V1 was still picking up multiple, strong signals from behind... then came the new ones from the front - A SECOND SPEED TRAP!
I don't believe any other detector would have caught that 2nd trap as obviously as the V1 did - sure, they would have found the signals, but they would not have deliniated them from existing, and they sure as hell would not have increased a bogie counter.
The 2nd trap had several officers with a number of violators. I was not among them.
As for POP and laser... well... they are all dubious at best. POP is so hard to capture and laser is lucky at best. To catch laser, you have to be in the pie slice set up by the gun - if you are not, you won't get jack.
Think of it this way:
Imagine this symbol "<" is the laser transmission, the starting point being the closed end, the only way you will get a laser signal of note is if the detector is actually within the open ends span... as I said, pie slice.
I have detected many a laser signal with my V1... but only because the towns that used them set them up for exact frontal hits... and I was behind the initial target cars.
Personally, I haven't seen much laser on the interstates... it seems to be the provenance of the small towns, who got all those guns for free from Gieco a few years ago.
I used to live in Delaware, and drove the I-95 corridor a LOT (my brother lives in Sebring).
My choice was the V1. There are filtering options built in that should tone down the junk, too. I just like the arrows/bogie counter.
Back in 2000, I was driving down I-95 from DE to FL. I was in SC, in this area, the median strip is VERY wide. I picked up a pot load of signals from in front, and slowed. There was a MASSIVE SCHP speed trap set up. I passed it at the speed limit, and continued south, still picking up the signals, this time from behind. However, the front started to go off again! The funny part? Those that missed the trap had already sped back up to 80+. I was sticking closer to the speed limit, mainly, because my V1 was still picking up multiple, strong signals from behind... then came the new ones from the front - A SECOND SPEED TRAP!
I don't believe any other detector would have caught that 2nd trap as obviously as the V1 did - sure, they would have found the signals, but they would not have deliniated them from existing, and they sure as hell would not have increased a bogie counter.
The 2nd trap had several officers with a number of violators. I was not among them.
As for POP and laser... well... they are all dubious at best. POP is so hard to capture and laser is lucky at best. To catch laser, you have to be in the pie slice set up by the gun - if you are not, you won't get jack.
Think of it this way:
Imagine this symbol "<" is the laser transmission, the starting point being the closed end, the only way you will get a laser signal of note is if the detector is actually within the open ends span... as I said, pie slice.
I have detected many a laser signal with my V1... but only because the towns that used them set them up for exact frontal hits... and I was behind the initial target cars.
Personally, I haven't seen much laser on the interstates... it seems to be the provenance of the small towns, who got all those guns for free from Gieco a few years ago.
