Detection range vs Clocking range?

We all know that RD work on the princeable of doplar shift, meaning the RG send out a band, and the new band or the shift the object sends back is calculated into the speed. Now heres the thing, do radar guns have scopes on them? None i have ever seen. And as we know, the further away an object is, the wider the signal gets as it approaches the target, think of a shotgun. This is what radar is. Now the particular question about a "pack" of cars, if there is an officer sitting on the median, and at the last second pops u with Ka band from less than 100 feet, and your in the fastlane, he is a sniper, and nailed you. Now if the cop is sitting at the side of the road at a distance of say 500ft, and there are cars all over the place... radar isnt used. The cop will pick up his laser gun and start picking off the sports cars he could never afford in 3 lifetimes :) this is my view of things, so ya if your moving with the flow of traffic, hes not going to pull just u, unless you are weaving or what not

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Originally Posted by booyakasha07

We all know that RD work on the princeable of doplar shift, meaning the RG send out a band, and the new band or the shift the object sends back is calculated into the speed. Now heres the thing, do radar guns have scopes on them? None i have ever seen. And as we know, the further away an object is, the wider the signal gets as it approaches the target, think of a shotgun. This is what radar is. Now the particular question about a "pack" of cars, if there is an officer sitting on the median, and at the last second pops u with Ka band from less than 100 feet, and your in the fastlane, he is a sniper, and nailed you. Now if the cop is sitting at the side of the road at a distance of say 500ft, and there are cars all over the place... radar isnt used. The cop will pick up his laser gun and start picking off the sports cars he could never afford in 3 lifetimes :) this is my view of things, so ya if your moving with the flow of traffic, hes not going to pull just u, unless you are weaving or what not

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Unless you're driving a red sports car. :lol:

When I had my TAs, cops were always scrutinizing me. I would always get strange looks as I drove through their instant on traps at exactly the posted speed limit. Now that I have a GTO, which is not as aggressive looking, they don't pay as much attention to me. And my driving habits have not changed.

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I have a kustom golden eagle Ka and I can aquire the fastest target in light traffic at 4500ft easily on interstate and it' very accurate, however usually an officer cannot make a good enough visual judgement on your speed much past 2000ft, and at night it decreases.. in following case law in most if not all states, you must visually estimate target speed and then verify with radar unit. However with constant-on in stationary mode(here where I live) it's not uncommon to see tickets where the target was on radar first, but the officer must still visually observe the target before locking in to take any action if warranted.. most of the tickets I saw writtin where much less than 2000ft..