Radar detectors do exactly what their name implies: detect radar. They do not jam radar, as the Federal Communications Commission has banned the sale and use of radar jammers since An alert driver with a quality radar detector can defeat most traffic enforcement tactics, no matter how sneaky the officer may be.
However, there are a few areas where motorists should exercise extra caution. For example, you should be cautious when cresting a hill or rounding a corner. Radar cannot travel over a hill or around curves unless the waves are reflected off of a nearby object and towards your vehicle. With this information, we hope that you now have a better understanding of how police radar works and how it is used to enforce speed limits. We have several protection options to fit any driver, from portable to custom-installed systems.
Interact with us in the comments or give us a call at This phenomenon is called a Doppler effect and is the same reason that a car sounds different as it approaches and drives away from you. Imagine that you have a tennis ball machine shooting balls at a stationary object once every second.
The balls bounce back to the machine and arrive once per second. If you start to move the object toward the ball launching machine, the balls bounce back faster and faster as the object approaches the machine. This increase in return speed represents an increase in frequency. If an object is moving away from the tennis ball machine, it will take longer for each ball to bounce back, thus representing a decrease in frequency. The digital signal processor in modern radar guns is configured to analyze the changes in the reflected signal very quickly and display a speed reading in less than a second.
In North America, police officers use radar guns that operate in the X, K and Ka band frequency ranges. X band radar is prone to interference from automatic door opening systems.
K band K is short for Kurz, which is the German word for short and Ka K-above band radar are less resistant to atmospheric absorption than X band and less effective over long distances. Most of the new radar guns such as the Stalker II and the Kustom Talon use Ka band signals, so if your detector goes off, you know you need to react right away.
Like Redflex, but for different reasons, it is also incredibly difficult for a detector to give ample warning. Fortunately, both Redflex and Gatso RT4 systems are stationery and located at fixed positions meaning that a good GPS application like Waze can alert you to their presence without the need of a detector.
Portable hand held police radar can also be used either from within a patrol vehicle or in more uncommon instances from a officer standing outside of his or her patrol vehicle or motorcycle.
Police radar can be operated in a stationery position or moving vehicle. Most states allow radar to be operated by a patrol officer while driving Pennsylvania is an exception. This can make for a difficult ambush situation to avoid getting a speeding ticket. Police can also use radar in unmarked patrol vehicles making early detection even more difficult.
The state of Pennsylvania is unique in that only state police are able to use radar. In other states, both state and local police are permitted to operate radar as a means of traffic enforcement. Some models that are mounted to police vehicles have dual transmitters, one pointing forward and one pointing towards to rear. The rear facing transmitter can easily clock vehicles that are following a patrol vehicle so be mindful when approaching a patrol car on the highway.
The quality of detectors have improved dramatically over the years and even budget priced models, such as the Whistler CR97 can be a very effective device in mitigated its risk. Higher-end with price tags to match are available from Escort, Radenso, Uniden, and Valentine Research. POP was marketed to change the ability of detectors to alert with ample range. The frequency most often used for POP is Nevada is the place where you will most likely encounter police using MPH radar.
Police in Nevada are extremely well trained with these radar units. Even the Valentine One detector — arguably the one of the best detectors for identifying POP radar, struggles with this form and alerts to it only about one out of every 10 transmission bursts. We have seen POP used more than once and have found that, indeed, it was capable of making accurate readings.
We originally saw the potential of POP—allowing for traffic enforcement to be able to take spot-readings of traffic as a means of furtively taking speed readings prior to using the conventional operation for the purposes of issuing citations. In the final analysis, POP never became widely used and its theoretical advantages have been trumped by the proliferation of inexpensive police laser LIDAR guns which are much easier to operate and are far more lethal to us motorists.
Police laser has essentially superseded any potential benefits of POP and is the preferred method of speed enforcement. I was recently speeding in a remote part of Nevada and got pulled over by a police officer who indicated he clocked me with his MPH unit. My radar detector did not alert, so I am assuming that the police officer used POP. To detector POP radar, radar detectors have to enabled to detect it and not all detectors have the ability to do so.
Unless you know that POP is being used in your region, we recommend keeping POP detection turned off on your detector. Police are not supposed to issue tickets solely on the use of POP, but honestly there is really no way to know if that role is being followed or not. Fortunately for us drivers, the use of POP is rare. Newer guns now use digital signal processing or DSP , these police radars are much better at measuring speed from greater distances and with greater precision than older analogue guns.
They also tend to use much less transmission power which in turn makes them harder to detect with a detector.
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