Working great TWA! I fully recommend it!
But that is just the detector, not the jammer part, is that correct?
Brian
Do you think it has saved you from a ticket or 2?
Detectors ok (possibly necessary), but I'm pretty sure that jammers are illegal in TX.
Daily.
But how does a detector only help with laser? My understanding is that laser being very directional, you don't get a squawk until your specifically targeted. And then your toast. My passport 9500 detects laser but it is rare that I ever get a ping from laser. They just don't use it that much in Colorado and Texas yet.
Radar jammers are illegal everywhere in the US because the FCC controls radio broadcast and we (non LEO) cannot possibly get a license to broadcast in that band.
Laser on the other hand, is merely light and that is not regulated by any gummit agency.... at least so far. That said, quite a few states have specifically made laser emitters meant for and used to jam laser speed detectors illegal. If you go to a site that sells the jammers, there is a list of the states they cannot and will not ship to.
All of that said, I still think a significant problem is annoying the LEO that stops you because his / her laser either 1) will not show a speed at all (what the good jammers do) or 2) shows an 'error' (what the fair jammers do) when pointed at you (us). Even if it is done in a state where it is legal, methinks it would propel the LEO onward and upward to look for any..... irregularities, anywhere on the vehicle or the person riding (driving) it.
Here in southern New England, laser seems to have supplanted radar for most speed checking done by stopped LEO's. Moving, they still use radar but stopped, laser is the preferred tool apparently. I have no knowledge other than that is what I see them using on the side of the highway virtually every single time I see an LEO out hunting for lunch.
Brian
Dark tinted windows, not using a hands free phone, and no front license plate on a car are also illegal (at least here), but yet I see all of those daily more than I can count... It's a risk for sure, but it really comes down to how bad a LEO want's to get you, which is probably somewhat based on your driving record after they run your plate, and if you're being a knucklehead or not, 85 in a residential riding a wheelie vs 85 on a highway in the middle of no-where...
I am only talking about a laser jammer, not any kind of detector.
Hey, I agree with you Jay but to me, there would be a big difference between detecting my speed detection equipment and jamming same. If I was an LEO (and I am not BTW) out soliciting 'donations' for speeding and had my laser fail to read, I would pull that vehicle (the vehicle that I was sighting when the readout..... didn't readout) over and have a chat with the driver. I would also walk around the vehicle at least once and check for anything out of compliance (within reasonable bounds though- let's not get ridiculous here).
Talk to an LEO and I believe you will find just the detectors annoy them. It is like we are 'cheating' when playing the game of speeding / catching speeders. I believe most of them would be much more annoyed if they though they had actually been blocked from taking the 'prize'.
Think of it like hunting: hunters take to the woods in the hope of 1) spotting game and 2) taking said game. The game, on the other hand, tries to avoid both of those things. They each use their tools, cleverness and wiles to try to outwit the other and "win the game". Hunters understand and accept that they may, and often will, come home empty handed. On the other side of the coin, taking a clean heart / lung shot at a deer, standing broadside to you at a distance almost too good to be true only to find the deer was projecting her image with a hologram..... well, now that would just make the hunter cranky.
Brian
If that ever happens I will definitely give up hunting deer. Then I'd want to have a conversation about hologram's and such with said deer.
Blond and breasts work wonders on male LEOs. LOL!
Bald and moobs don't cut it?
I believe that "following too closely" is the real culprit in many daily wrecks. If people actually drove in the right lane except to pass and when they did move to the left lane to pass, actually speed up to complete the pass, the interstates would be a lot safer.
Glad to see that Texas upped the limits on their roads in the middle of nowhere.
I also think that the speed limits in traffic prone locations should be adjusted based on the time of day and/or day of the week.
Most LEOs I have talked with will allow up to 15 over the limit unless they are assigned a special duty at a location because of complaints. Then they write ticket after ticket.
My little country road with no one on it is cruised by a state trooper on a regular basis. Even though there are sections with open fields the entire road is 45 mph. Both my wife and I have been pulled over and we were not being 'unsafe'. Of course I was the only one who got a ticket. Blond and breasts work wonders on male LEOs. LOL!
The Concours is just too easy to speed without realizing it. Having some type of alert will be nice. Going to order that detector soon. Not going to try the laser jammer. I'll just try and make sure I am not in the lead.
What you have described is exactly where my Passport 9500 works best.
But the TPX 2.0 is designed specifically for a motorcycle and is shock proof and water proof, I use to run an escort radar detector but found the removing it in rain to be a pain in the a$$ here in the moist PNW, I love being able to just run this TPX on the bike no matter what the conditions are doing and the LED warning light is bright as all getup, no problem at all with it not catching my attention even in bright sunshine.