Rocky Mountain Radar....???

**jimbonzzz** · 04-04-2007, 11:54 AM

**hallcrash** · 05-13-2007, 03:12 PM

I would like a link from Orbital75 with the proof. I have been using a RMR since 1999. And I have, in-fact, avoided tickets. I use the RMR like a standard radar detector: When it beeps: I break. this should work with ALL radar speed traps for at least 5 mile an hour slow rate. some RMR products claim to make the detection of your speed more complicated then with only a standard detector, they (or he) might be right on a few models of speed radar(stalker dual FYI) I am sure. I am completely unsure about the laser aspect of their (his) new product line, but they CAN detect all of the radar/laser at least as well as most detectors( not the best though). I see a newbe slamming in my future too.

**specialchicken** · 05-13-2007, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by Razmo

Guys/Gals,

Is there no topic on Rocky Mountain Radar Detectors and Scramblers? After some brief review, I can't see any reason not to buy a scrambler?

Thanks,
Raz

LOLOLOLOL use the search button champ...your question will be answered time and time again

**hallcrash** · 05-13-2007, 03:16 PM

hes a specialchicken

**Orbital75** · 05-13-2007, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by hallcrash

I would like a link from Orbital75 with the proof. I have been using a RMR since 1999. And I have, in-fact, avoided tickets. I use the RMR like a standard radar detector.

At the time they didn't make a combo Detector/Jammer, they only offered a Passive Radar Jammer which was the "Spirit". I'm thinking this may have been 1996 or so. I got a ticket so I wasn't
" Invisible " to radar. I think I may have been going 12 over maybe less. Point being it didn't Jam The Gun.

As far as it working as a good standard Radar Detector,
here's a test done by Speed Measurement Laboratories.
It does detect radar, just very poorly.

http://www.radarbusters.com/support/product-tests/2.asp

I'm a more experienced detector user now Plus I know the science behind the electronics. A Passive Jammer is underpowered and can not Jam Radar. It would take alot more power to jam something the size of a car.

Jim can you pitch in here....

**jimbonzzz** · 05-13-2007, 09:58 PM

Rocky Mountain Radar detectors were manufactured by Korean company Attowave, the same company that made PNI detectors. Although they DO detect radar, they have consistently performed at the bottom of the pack.

As for the "passive jamming" features: all they'll do is cause some false speed readings to be displayed when they're a couple of feet from the radar unit, if there is no target present. But, they provide absolutely NO protection against police acquiring your speed. If you need proof, these have been tested by so many different sources it is hard to comprehend anyone believing that they actually provide any protection. To date, Guys of LIDAR hasn't tested them mainly because it is a waste of time.

If you want to know the technical side behind the RMR passive jammers: they are basically an antenna which is shorted and unshorted at a variable rate, passively modulating the radar signal. A portion of the radar's signal is reflected back to the radar unit, and is picked up by the mixer diode, which acts as a detector diode and converts the received signal to pulsing DC which interpreted by the counter circuits as a speed reading. But there are a couple of problems with this: the mixer diode isn't designed to be a detector, the received signal is basically being converted directly to DC power, but has a high "barrier voltage" that must be exceeded before producing an output. Even if an actual low-barrier detector diode was used (like in pre-superhet radar detectors) it still wouldn't be wouldn't be very sensitive. The mixer diode works efficiently when actually mixing a reflected doppler-shifted signal from an actual moving target, and no matter what this will always greatly overpower any kind of "noise" from the RMR passive jammer.

**Orbital75** · 05-13-2007, 10:07 PM

Thanks Jim for chiming in...

hallcrash, if your looking for some straight up technical reasons for something, Jim is the guy you need to speak to. He's a very knowledgeable person on this board as you can tell by his very detailed post.

**lowkey** · 05-14-2007, 11:37 AM

the other day at the mall i saw a poor guy with a pazerII only no rd. on his front window it was poniting to the hood very NICE!.oh i mean the yellow truck.