| If you've ever had the joy of riding along, radar | | | | scan the entire length of possibilities, which takes |
| detector online, only to be pulled over by a hidden | | | | time and reduces detection range, which means that |
| cop, then there is some news that you might have | | | | they become less effective.What's more, instead of |
| an interest in hearing. Many of the radar detectors on | | | | having to measure the speed of each car individually, |
| the market today are not as functional as they claim. | | | | modern radar guns have a program which allows |
| In fact, many of them absolutely do not work under | | | | them to measure the speed of the fastest moving |
| real, working conditions. This is due in large part to | | | | vehicle in their range. That means that even if you |
| the development of new radar guns which the police | | | | are hiding behind a semi he he he truck, the police will |
| have been only too happy to put into use.The newer | | | | be able to find your speed. Tough luck, eh?And |
| radar guns use a cutting edge radar technology that | | | | things are getting rapidly worse. As the number of |
| is called digital signal processing, or DSP. This new | | | | old style X band radar guns decreases and the new |
| technique makes new guns so fast that they are | | | | ones increase, the number of effective radar guns |
| always faster than your twitch reflex of hitting the | | | | will go down as well.So, now you will have to do |
| brakes. By setting them at standby and waiting for a | | | | some homework and check out the ratings available |
| car to come into range, a policemen can lock on and | | | | that treat radar detectors. Depending on your |
| measure the speed of a vehicle in less than four | | | | particular situation you may want to look for a |
| tenths of a second. You don't have to be a fortune | | | | detector that is rated highly for hi way driving. Or if |
| teller to know who's going to get a ticket in that | | | | you do most of your commuting in the city, then |
| situation.Coupled with this new speed is a lower | | | | you may want a detector that has a well designed |
| power footprint that previous detectors. Modern | | | | filter that will cut down on false alarms but not |
| radar guns use Ka band frequency, which uses a | | | | greatly lose range of detection. |
| very high bandwidth, which is more than fifty times | | | | Whatever detector you choose, you're going to |
| higher than previous, X band radar guns. This means | | | | have to live with the fact that detectors are going |
| that detectors have a much harder time finding the | | | | to have to continue evolving to match the continually |
| signal from radar guns. Now, detection signals can | | | | evolving threat of radar guns, and that no one |
| work anywhere in the spectrum available, and a radar | | | | detector will keep you safe now, or forever.Gregg |
| detector isn't sure which will come at it. So it has to | | | | Hall is an author living in Navarre Beach, Florida. |