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  1. #1
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    Default The Best Way To Avoid Cops

    I have had my refurb rx65 s7 for over a week now, and have not had a single radar encounter yet!! Why is it when you want them to be running radar they aren't, and the times you really wish they were at home, they are right where you don't need them to be? This is killing me!!

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    Default Re: The Best Way To Avoid Cops

    I got my RX65 refurb yesterday and took it on its first test shortly after midnight. Picked up 34.7Ka twice in about 10 minutes but only found the cop on one of those encounters. The LEOs here often measure speed late at night on weekends on the downtown interstate which makes for a good testing area.

    Any particular day/time/place near you that LEOs are more active?

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    Default Re: The Best Way To Avoid Cops

    Haha that's how it works!!

    Whenever I get a new detector, I have a period without encounters. Usually.

    Another way to avoid encounters is to be recording.

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    Default Re: The Best Way To Avoid Cops

    I live in a small town, so I usually have to go on a road trip to test out a new addition to the family.

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    Default Re: The Best Way To Avoid Cops

    Not much radar in use in my small town either, but it sure is nice to have the right tool to detect it when they decide fire it up.

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    Default Re: The Best Way To Avoid Cops

    Quote Originally Posted by Riff View Post
    Not much radar in use in my small town either, but it sure is nice to have the right tool to detect it when they decide fire it up.
    I hear that my friend!

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    Default Re: The Best Way To Avoid Cops

    Quote Originally Posted by Weeth View Post
    Haha that's how it works!!

    Whenever I get a new detector, I have a period without encounters. Usually.

    Another way to avoid encounters is to be recording.
    If that is not the truth I don't know what is! Ill have 40 hours of footage, all crap, I take the camera down for whatever reason, and bam, encounters everywhere, people doing accidental donuts on off ramps, etc.

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    Default Re: The Best Way To Avoid Cops

    Me too.. it took several weeks after installing my Sti-R+ before I had an encounter.

    Laser jammers are even worse. I've had 1 laser hit in almost 2 years of having an LI, and I had to drive 150 miles away from home for that opportunity.
    If I'm passing you on the right, YOU are in the wrong lane!

    If speed kills, how come I'm still alive?

    Active Countermeasures: V1 3.858, Escort Redline, Beltronics STi-R+, LI Dual 7.1x CPU/8.7 Heads (front)
    Other/Backup Countermeasures: V1 3.813 (loaned to friend), Beltronics Pro RX65 M4 6.3
    Vehicle: 2002 Audi A4 1.8T Quattro
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    Encounters/Saves August 2011: Radar 3/1, Laser 0/0


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    Default Re: The Best Way To Avoid Cops

    ^AGree

    KInda sorta the same for me, seemed like forever before I got that 1st hit.

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    Default Re: The Best Way To Avoid Cops

    Quote Originally Posted by kpatz View Post
    Me too.. it took several weeks after installing my Sti-R+ before I had an encounter.

    Laser jammers are even worse. I've had 1 laser hit in almost 2 years of having an LI, and I had to drive 150 miles away from home for that opportunity.
    This is what scares me about getting a Laser jammer, you hear that people always see cops using laser, but what are the chances that you get hit by a laser. LOL I have a V1 I have been hit by laser probably ONLY 5 to 7 times (excluding all the false laser from light post, and cruse control) within 4 years and I live in NYC, they are supposedly very Laser happy.

    In my opinion radar is still use 90 percent of the times more than Lasers. I think the chances of being hit by a laser is 5 out of 100 chances seriously specially if you live in a big city more volume of cars lest chances of you being a target.

 

 

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