I'm not advocating speeding under bad weather condition but how does rain, etc. affect RD performance? Can it "see through" the water mist from the car in front? Thanks!
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Bad weather and RD performance?
I'm not advocating speeding under bad weather condition but how does rain, etc. affect RD performance? Can it "see through" the water mist from the car in front? Thanks!
Re: Bad weather and RD performance?
It will still work but it also will affect detection distance for you and the LEO.Originally Posted by a529612
For some reason i always find i get more range when it is coudy and rainy. This might just be because there are less cars on the road though since there is no good explanation besides that.
Hummm...... I thought Rain, Sleet, Snow, and other forms of precipitation
only affected Lidar.... I hope more people chime in, I'd like to know this
myself.
The shorter wave length is, more it affect to a molecules of water in the air. The most resistant to weather conditions is X band (or any other which uses longer wave), the least - laser.
Bad weather conditions greatly affect the radar's ability to pick up a target speed.
cool, speed in the rain!
On a different note, has anyone seen LEO operating under rain condition?
In Ontario where RDs have been banned since WW2and less than .00000000000001% of people use RDs cops exclusevily use C/O and they leave their radar guns on even when assisting a broken car/truck off a highway regardless of weather conditions (rain included)... lots of times I got Ka alerts for laser traps, they don't bother to turn their radar guns off while doing just laser enforcement...
They still do and still can stop you when radar information is correct like patrol speed matches speedometer speed. Most newer units will have the VSS to compensate for it.
Experienced them(LEO) doing that a couple times. The manual also states that they have to make sure all infos are correct before making a stop.
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