What was your first RD?

[Won Hunglo]

Mine, was the Maxon RD-1. A cheapo X&K only unit but it flat our kicked butt. I remember the famous challenge they extended to Escort/Passport but Escort would never bite. If the Escort/Passport could beat the RD-1 they would give Escort $100,000...or was it 10,000?


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[Won Hunglo]

Just did some searching & found a little info of the challenge offered to Escort.

http://www.dak.com/popups/popupradar.htm

[GTO_04]

Mine was a Radio Shack Road Patrol X-K. It was a passive detector. Not bad on X band, which was the primary radar in use at the time. From there I went to an GUL G-83 passive with a huge antenna! That didn 't work all that great and I upgraded in 1981 to the Escort, with the analog meter and replaceable warning bulb. It was about the size of a small microwave oven, but it worked great!

GTO_04

[mauiman84]

a cheap whistler

[Atriety23]

My first RD, I bought the Bel Vector 965 for $250.00 at Circuit City (which i found to be a total rip off when I saw it for sale online the next day for $150.00). I still have this detector, it's on my dodge durango..

[laserblaster]

snooper sd815i, which on normal radar is good, its only when it comes to lasers and gatsos does it fail!

but for the size of the unit it may be the sensitive? its ment to be the worlds smallest!

http://www.radardetectors.co.uk/SD815iS_windscreen.jpg

[AirMoore]

What I know now to be the Original Escort Passport (Much thanks to Jim)...

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[jimbonzzz]

Mine was a Whistler 225:

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I used it in my '79 trans am through high school. Did get a couple of memorable saves :D

[jerry540i]

Probably bought my first detector in the mid-80's. Mine was an old Fox XK with the two funky plastic "protrusions" out the front. Actually worked on X-band, but when I got my first hit on K-band I doubt I was more than 50 feet from the cruiser.

Upgraded in the later 80's (87-88) to a Radio Shack Micronta Road Patrol XK. This was the exact duplicate of the Uniden RD-9 and the Cobra (I think it was the 3160). Great XK detectors of that era, and all three were given good marks by Car and Driver

Next was a Uniden RDxl (really small).

Bel Express 3 somewhere in there. (Bel's first "superwide Ka)...or did I get it after the 855?...can't remember

After that it was a BEL 855(?) the first Shadow Tech.

Another BEL, can;t remember the number (945?)

V1 1.8 no pop.

Waiting for an STi. Goodbye Spectre in Ontario!

[A-TownNavi]

cobra 6060. what a champ :lol: .

[crazyVOLVOrob]

MY first detector was the BEL RX65 until my dad permanently borrowed it and got me the BEL v995

[jackenloper]

MY first detector was the BEL RX65 until my dad permanently borrowed it and got me the BEL v995

that sux Rob. I guess thats how you know that the big three are the best.

[SamuraiVM]

I've entered the game late, so my first radar detector is actually a Solo S2.

*waits for the posts saying how wireless sucks* :D

[sethy]

Well, i used an old radioshack detector, that gave me at least 3x better warning then the cobra 9600

[carlito]

mine was a uniden stalker unit :D

[f_399]

a $30 cobra

[CactusMan]

My first RD was the original Escort from Cincinnati Microwave.

[Patuba]

I think mine was a Whistler 685?? from Wal-Mart. Not entirely sure about the model #.

[Mackid343]

bel v995 from circuit city in september. found this site shortly after i got it! too bad i couldn't save a few bucks and have got it from roy...

[ES13Raven]

What was your first RD?
RadioShack Cat. No: 22-1675
Did X, K, Ka, Laser and Safety Alert. No VG-2 stealth though, but the next year's model did.

Was the prior year's model that sold for $105 and I got it on sale for $39.

Saved my A$$ several times, but it was a false happy POS :wink:

[RensoreK]

http://www.chuckcolby.com/images/radar1.jpg

My First Radar Detector :lol:

[ReadyRadar]

V1

[Mackid343]

V1

starting off quite well :wink: :wink: :lol:

[Rottman]

Just did some searching & found a little info of the challenge offered to Escort.

http://www.dak.com/popups/popupradar.htm

Thanks for the memory! I forgot about that. I always wondered why escort never bit on that offer?

I remember an ad out that clipped the heardlines of other detectors comparing themselves to ESCORT.....the ad said something like "Our competion is our best advertisement."

[ReadyRadar]

V1
starting off quite well :wink: :wink: :lol:
It's better than spending $540 because the first $100 detector didn't cut the mustard! Better to spend once and spend it right :)

[s70rmp]

a $65 radio shack detector I got from just outside Asbury Park,NJ
and sold it to somebody for $120 !

[bogey]

I've entered the game late, so my first radar detector is actually a Solo S2.

*waits for the posts saying how wireless sucks* :D

Mine was the Solo also.....boy do those wireless suck :lol:

[s70rmp]

I've entered the game late, so my first radar detector is actually a Solo S2.

*waits for the posts saying how wireless sucks* :D

Mine was the Solo also.....boy do those wireless suck :lol:

which is being sold in the UK for just under $700 !

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they can't be selling many, well maybe they can !

[bigdaub]

an old school cordless bel.

[swifty]

mine was a uniden stalker unit :D

Me too. Leaky little bastards, with no option for turning off any bands. The thing didn't shut up for a second. It's amazing I ever wanted another RD.

[SmaartAasSaabr]

Mee 3.

[mplsfalls]

I had an old Bel around 1989 that was supposed to be the smallest unit on the market.. Can't remember the model number though.

[GTO_04]

I had an old Bel around 1989 that was supposed to be the smallest unit on the market.. Can't remember the model number though.

Was it from the XKR series? They had a lot of different models back then.

GTO_04

[edweird]

A Fuzzbuster II X AND the NEW K band. :lol:

Ed

[Hornhonker]

My first one was a small black box run by two penlight cells in 1969. A year later upgraded to a monster box with a big microwave horn poking out the front. This one worked much better as I could detect X band three or four blocks away ! :)