Im looking at bringing some radar detectors here from the US,The ones Im looking at are the COBRA 11 band,I already have one and it hasnt missed a speed camera yet. Please get back to me with your interest and I would probably do a group buy. Price is going to be around $350
Hey mate, i do remember someone else organising a group buy on a similar radar detector, I think whoever it was postponed the group buy until they did further tests on each brand overseas? I may be interested:zlove: Cheers Justin
Rad det!!! I am interested, are they better then the road angel rader detecters? are plug in or do you have to wire them up to the car. cheers Zedipated
radar yeah could be good mate, id say get a group buy going for the Beltronics detectors, they are made in WA and update there sofware freqeuntly 2 deal with new radars coming out
I thought road angel was just a GPS that knew the fixed cameras... Didn't think it was a detector, and thats how they got around the laws banning them in states other than WA... Could be wrong, but im pretty sure
I would be interested Paul. Don't know much about detectors so is there any info you can give ie: will they be picked up by a detector detector? Do they pick up any type of radar. Sorry mate, I'm a dunce when it comes to this. What is a RRP on these? Cheers mate John
im definately intereseted pending a an answer im hoping to hear, i remeber mattz doin something a while ago. Anyhow I just want to know whether its a stealth detector u can pick things up but they cant detect you??? cheers By the way what is the ETA on this are these ready to ship, is ther a link to the manufacter as i'd like to check some other specs out like range of detectiuon what types etc.
US radar detectors are almost useless, because by US law all manufacturers must present all new designs to the FEDs so they can then build their radar guns to detect them, making them useless. Australian built and designed detectors are the worlds best by far,and furthermore radar is becoming obsolete with most systems now using laser devices.
guys, there is only 1 detector that is undetectable, because it is inherent in the design that it doesn't emit *much* radiation now the cops might one day focus on the small amount it does emit, look for that wavelength, and amplify it... but hopefully there will be counter devices such as "officer, my mobile phone emits that wavelength, that's all you've been detecting, i don't have a radar detector, honest!" etc but the radar detectors are about to become banned in WA also and after that, i expect importing them may become hard since there is no state in aus that you can use them... my mate got pulled over about a month ago and the cops warned him that its about to become illegal the radar detectors aren't made in WA, they are just rebadged american versions and they tell you that it's customised for aussie conditions, but i don't believe that there is 1 guy in the eastern states that modifies a valentino RD and makes it undetectable, and was confirmed by radar roy, but i dunno how much he charges for it, i presume a fair bit (1.5k or something like that is my guess) anyways, i'm interested in the GB if its for the bel STi (thats what its called in USA)
laser must be aimed, so it's being held in a cops hand radar is widespread, so its sitting on the side of the road with a contractor sitting in a van eating donuts get a laser jammer, the lidar resistant coating to put on ur headlights and licence plate, and stealth radar detector, and then you have the ultimate protection possible imho
Exactly to be 100% you need both laser and radar for the reasons matt explained, but as all US radar detectors operate on frequencies known by Aust police they give a distinct error code on pinging that tells them you have a detector.!
they get the error code if they detected your detector ie they are in their cop car (which is way powerful btw so you can detect them by a long shot - speaking from experience here) or they are using a laser, in which case if they get an error code it might be because you are jamming their laser but its not really relevant for the prime application of the radar detector, which is the farking multinova's here is some quotes: Consumers Say Bel has done the impossible, they have managed to make a radar detector that has zero leakage. The Veil Guy February, 2006 "The STi Driver is the only radar detector completely invisible to all radar detector detectors with blistering sensitivity to all radar bands." Carl Fors - Speed Labs
btw, Ka band is the multinova band... some more quotes: Guys of Lidar Tests At the January 2006 Radar Detector Testing of the Guys of Lidar, the STi came in second place for Ka on 33.8 GHz, just behind the RX65 and in first place for Ka on 35.5 GHz. The GoL also tested the STi with the Spectre RDD and VG2 unit, and it was found to be completely undetectable! Speed Measurement Laboratories Tests "The Beltronics STi Driver was completely invisible to all RDDs down to point blank range with the noses of the test vehicle and the test van touching. It?s the black hole of signal leakage. The only way to detect the Driver is to see it! The other two tested detectors were easily detected by both the Spectre II and the Spectre III."
radars Hi Justin, I will let people know when I do more tests to make sure all the camera devices here in Aussie are seen by the detector.
but if the cops bring out Ku band, only the RX65 can detect that, however that is a detectable RD, so no point in getting it the STi can't detect Ku band
radars Add the Cobra to that list,Ive been using it for 12 months and never been detected by cops,plus the beltronics get updated with tracable crap
the cobra rates pretty poorly in the reviews, only 3 out of 5 stars i wouldn't use that shit in an environment where if you get caught with it, you get a huge fine and the RD gets confiscated... it's an investment man, do it right or don't do it at all is what i think here are some quotes on the cobra: The Cobra 9700 was stacked up with several other radar detectors during Radar Roy's 2005 Radar Rumble. The Cobra 9700 is a mid priced unit and the detector performed as well as other detectors priced in its same category on radar. The big plus for the Cobra 9700 is its ability to sniff out laser. The Cobra performed very well in this area, even beating out higher priced units. The short coming is the units filtering. The 9700 filtering on Ka seemed very low to moderate. Cobra advertises this unit as being immune to the Spectre I. One problem is that all Spectre I units have been upgraded to either the Spectre II or III and this unit can be detected by both. Read the full test results Speed Measurement Lab Tests The Cobra 9700 was tested at the 2004 SML Radar Detector Shoot Out. During constant on tests, the 9700 failed to detect any radar at the 2.5 mile cone. At the 2.0 mile cone, the 9700 alerted to K and Ka band, but not X band. The same held true for the Instant on tests. Read the full test results
