Re: Fixed Speed Camera Help
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Originally Posted by mapturner
Hello everyone - I live here in New Zealand and just up the road from me is a fixed speed camera at the side of the road.Now when i approach this camera from the rear my rx65 lights up like a christmas tree from about 1/2 mile away on the X-Band - But if i approach the camera from the other way with the lens pointing at my vehicle my RD will not go off till i am a matter of feet away... Can anyone tell me why this would happen as i would of thought you should get the same reading either way and if anything the strongest would be with the lens of the camera facing towards you...Any help would be appreciated - Maybe a faulty RD...And keep up the good work on a great forum...
Hi mapturner. I'm in NZ too. Here's a link to a page that has some information on radar bands and type of equipment used.
http://www.radardirect.co.nz/index2.html
From everything I've read we don't have X band in use by our police force, you can switch it off. Is there perhaps another source, other than the pole cam, which I believe uses Ka.
new zealand fixed cameras
One lesson I learned, which applies all over the world is that there is no one device that does everything, despite what most manufacturers claim. You usually need a combination of products to cover yourself against all speed traps.
From the UK experience there are three basic rules of thumb and you can use them depending on the cameras you have in your country.
1. Fixed cameras - use GPS location to warn you of their location. There are so many types of induction loop or piezo strip camera systems that traditional radar detectors can't detect becuase there are no signals to be detected.
2. Mobile radar traps - get a detector that works well against the frequencies used by the cameras in your country. Common sense will tell you that different detectors perform better against different frequencies but you usually get what you pay for.
3. Mobile laser traps - laser detectors can help and are better than nothing but don't rely completely on them. You really need a decent laser diffuser for a better level of protection.
My advice would always be to start with the product that takes care of the biggest threat to your licence first and build from there.
What you need in NZ in addition to your RX65 detector is a GPS device in your car which has the software and a database containing the GPS co-ordinates of the fixed pole mounted cameras in NZ. Then it can bleep and flash at you whenever you are approaching that GPS location. There are various free databases already available for NZ (and most other countries in the world) which you can download onto your choice of GPS devices. But if you are more concerned about mobile laser guns get a decent jammer first and just keep your eyes open for the poles or the induction loops in the road like the attached picture until you get your GPS device.
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Intersting info about NZ police is on the following site - make sure that any cameras that catch you have been calibrated within the required guidelines which you can also see from that page.
http://www.police.govt.nz/service/road/infringements.php[/img]
