My Valentine 1 "J'd" a LEO!

[o2bad455]

I think I will try this, I drive in remote areas and I have memorized most of the falses. I will turn pop off and the guard and see what happens.

Cool. I'll be driving through a relatively remote area tomorrow or the next day, and will also turn the Ka-Guard off. Let's compare results.

[languy99]

Ok well I just made my drive, best advice is to leave the guard on. I passed a car running a cobra and I got a full hit of Ka from it. And the bogey counter went to 3. To make sure that's what it was I turned guard on and passed the same car again and nothing this time. I turned it off onemore time and again the same thing happened.

On a side note, I almost died.

I was driving on a country highway, you know, one lane of traffic each way. First off let me tell you it is raining bad here, I'm from Michigan and Ike is having an effect on us. Anyway, I had a guy in front of me about 150 or so feet, with other traffic behind me. We crest a hill and I see a truck stopped in the on-coming lane waiting to make a left. Well the guy in front of me passes the truck and after about 2 seconds the truck decides to make the turn. The only problem is that I was about 50 feet from him when he started to turn. He turned right into my lane. All I saw was the side of a blue 3/4 ton ford truck. I slam on the brakes and the wheels lock up. The car starts sliding to the left and as it starts to I start steering for the space that was left between his back end and the other cars that were stopped behind him waiting. I barley squeak by. I let off the brakes and feel the car catch traction again. Lets say I almost had a heart attack. I thank god that I did not t-bone him going 50 mph. I also thank god that I had just installed new brakes about 2 weeks ago and had high performance summer tires on the car.

I hate hillbilly redneck mother f cukers who don't know how to drive. I swear if I had a gun, I would have followed him and shot him.

[fknra]

um bad idea. Those rednecks like guns too and more often than not know how to use them.

[FoolishOne]

First off let me tell you it is raining bad here, I'm from Michigan and Ike is having an effect on us.

I'm glad you are alive! On a similar note, isn't this rain ridiculous?!

[languy99]

I'm glad you are alive! On a similar note, isn't this rain ridiculous?!

Yeah it is, my basement had water in it of course. It rained constantly for over 48 hours at my house. But at least it stopped now.

[o2bad455]

Ok well I just made my drive, best advice is to leave the guard on. I passed a car running a cobra and I got a full hit of Ka from it. And the bogey counter went to 3. To make sure that's what it was I turned guard on and passed the same car again and nothing this time. I turned it off onemore time and again the same thing happened.

On a side note, I almost died.

First of all, I'm glad you're still alive!

Second, my results with the Ka-Guard OFF were much better, so I have to disagree with your advice. I drove 500 miles straight through. The first roughly 250 miles had NO falses from polluting detectors, but 7 really excellent Ka warnings from the V1. The 4th warning really amazed me as it was from forward-facing off-axis I/O around a corner, and I got close to 1/2 a mile of warning! I consider that a *significant* improvement!

For the next 100 miles or so, traffic started getting heavier and I did get some pollution alerts -- 3 times just a single blip from opposite direction as they approached, 1 constant alert when I pulled into a rest stop, 1 alert on both approach and just after passing a stopped tourist with flat tire, 2 short alerts from same-direction traffic only when close behind me, and only 1 really annoying encounter with a Cobra user who kept trying to follow me and was constantly setting off my V1 (bogey counter went up to 3 when he was close and directly behind me).

For about the last 150 miles, I turned the Ka-Guard back ON due to too many polluting detectors.

Preliminary conclusion: Ka-Guard OFF really seems to help detection of difficult forward-facing and around-corner scatter, but does get old in heavier traffic with polluting detectors. I think I'm going to turn the Ka-Guard back OFF, at least for use in lighter traffic.

Question: I wonder if Cobras or even less polluting detectors in traffic ahead can actually help the V1 with the early warnings when Ka-Guard is OFF, rather than just relying on signal scatter from the radar gun itself. Does anyone know if some detectors actually leak more in the Ka band while they're alerting versus when they're not?

BTW, no J's with Ka-Guard OFF, as expected.