Anyone have this, or radar roy have you tested this?

[Ryigan]

Here is a radioshack radar detector. I recently bought a bell rx55. Just wondering if anyone has had one of these and if anyone can tell me who makes it for radioshack. thanks

[jimbonzzz]

Made by BG Tech, the same company that makes Cobra and Early Warning.

[Ryigan]

so pretty much its junker ha

[Event Horizon]

whats interesting is my early 90s early warning detector i think is made from a company named Sunkyong America... I have no idea about this company.. I guess then early warning switched to bg tech.

[Ryigan]

well the detector did a decent job i guess, picked up great range on k when the conditions were right, the other morning i was going to work and it picked up a cop with constant on k from a mile away over a bridge, was impressed, hope the rx55 will live up to these standards.

[DCJAG]

What is the radio shack cat #?

[pipinos1976]

Tested this RD in Greece 1,5 years ago. Although it's not suitable for Greece (no Ku band), I thought it would be nice to test it.

In X band (we had some K15's back then) it was more than decent. It could detect X band IO from 1 Km even when the road was curvy.
In K band it was decent. It detected K band warning signs at 600 m (straight road) and fixed Gatsos at 200 m.
In Ka band I couldn't test it as we don't have such band in Greece.
In Ku no test as the RD doesn't support this band.

I noticed 2 strange things.
1. As I travelled the highway near Athens, where the only signals it could detect would be K band from door openers, I had some strange VG2 alerts. In a 20 Km ride I had 4-5 such alerts !!!
2. The other strange thing was that when I had a call, the RD always detected Ka band. This happened at least 6-7 times during my testing and always when I used the cell phone.

Thnx for your time.