X-Band in Ontario - really close call!!

[sailor_david]

While I have read about it, but now I have seen it. There is X-Band in Ontario. I was going north this weekend with my STI on doing about 150km. I picked up an X band, but there was a microwave tower ahead so I figured that was it. It kept getting stronger, but I ignored it. Lucky for me I was following a rabbit because all of the sudden I saw an OPP motorcycle and he spun around and pulled the guy over in front of me. It was very lucky and I now pay attention to X-band. FYI it was on the 400 just north of Barrie. Don't turn off X-Band if you are in Ontario!!!

[spankyaf]

Xband on a OPP bike?? Somebody else posted about this and I thought they full of it. Me thinks I owe somebody an apology

[CanuckSTI_User]

X band up North doesn't really surprise me. What area where you in or how far up north were you?

[LemoNSX]

Xband on a OPP bike?? Somebody else posted about this and I thought they full of it. Me thinks I owe somebody an apology

He he, I think that may have been me, but no worries. I never thought twice about it.

[Invasion1]

lots of X band North of Barrie im tellin ya

got shot with it 3 times this weekend alone....

twice by OPP bikes and once in a local LEO in a cruiser

8)

[Hessen]

I've said it before....................I would not turn off X Band in Ontario.

[CanuckSTI_User]

Ontario is a pretty big place. Take Texas and multiply it by 3. In southern Ontario I have yet to see X band but for sure up north I'd leave it on. I'm assuming the smaller forces up there are more cash strapped and likely using older equipment. Why throw a perfectly good working Xband gun especially when you can't afford to replace it.

[SmaartAasSaabr]

Ontario is huge, and it's WIDE... I've driven clear across Canada, and Ontario takes forever and ever and ever, Manitoba is over in about 15-20 minutes and that is if you stop in Winnipeg for lunch, Saskatchewan is maybe a half hour and Alberta is just a skip and a hop and before you know it you are about to plow through a marijuana plantation and into the Pacific

Mind you I guess it's partially because Western Ontario sucks :P The "Trans-Canada Highway" is almost made of gravel and full of logging trucks, and it's just a little path between the conifer trees, and sometimes they open a "passing lane" to pass the trucks, always uphill, then you are stuck behind another 75 km/h truck Whereas in the Prairies it's all beautiful flat, straight 4 lane divided tarmac...

[Road Warrior]

Ontario is huge, and it's WIDE... I've driven clear across Canada, and Ontario takes forever and ever and ever, Manitoba is over in about 15-20 minutes and that is if you stop in Winnipeg for lunch, Saskatchewan is maybe a half hour and Alberta is just a skip and a hop and before you know it you are about to plow through a marijuana plantation and into the Pacific

Mind you I guess it's partially because Western Ontario sucks :P The "Trans-Canada Highway" is almost made of gravel and full of logging trucks, and it's just a little path between the conifer trees, and sometimes they open a "passing lane" to pass the trucks, always uphill, then you are stuck behind another 75 km/h truck Whereas in the Prairies it's all beautiful flat, straight 4 lane divided tarmac...

It took me 3 days (with 2 overnight stops) to hit Phoenix, AZ, thru Windsor-Detroit border crossing, with the local speed limits how long would take me to hit Calgary for instance (Toronto-Calgary same distance as Tor-Phoenix, I think) driving only on Canadian roads (so no Detroit-Chicago-Minneapolis-Billings-Great Falls, MT-Calgary)?

[joker1911]

i got confirmed x band on the 401 on sunday. there was overcast so no laser in use. black cv. was pointing the other direction but sti picked it up about 1-2km away at least