The reason why I so strongly believe to mount high even though whistler says mount low. Is from past driving experience and getting hit with laser with my detector down low. If their is a big fat SUV in front of you all that detector can see is that big fat bumper nothing else nothing more. When going down the road for that matter all it can ever see is bumpers. Scatter does not wrap around the car and reflect off the back bumper. Scatter either reflects out or through something. Just take a normal laser pointer you can see this for yourself. Whistler wants you to get the best laser pickup from your car not from somebody elses. Lets face it once you hear the laser detector go off and your the only one being targeted you've been had unless you use veil or something active to jam. So a high mount gives you that slim chance of picking up any kind of scatter that goes upward or outward or through the others drivers windshield. How do I know this well along time ago. I drove through a laser trap several times remember this is real world not surface street testing. I mounted my detector low and ran by the trap several times it didnt go off until I was right on top of the laser gun. Then I rode by the trap again several times with my whistler high mounted which is slighlty below the rear view mirror. I got a pretty good advance warning before coming up to the cop. You might say o this is subjective. Well I made sure that before I enter the trap about the same amount of traffic was around me and the test came out pretty much the same everytime I drove up into the trap. And officer wobble on the laser gun is gonna be either up or down or some side to side. So the chances of him shooting through another cars windshield and your detector picking it up is pretty resonable I would say if your detector can see through the other cars windshield that is. Higher yields a better field of view. Maybe for detecting a direct hit with your car lower is better but that is sorta pointless to me. Even with active jammers and veil were all trying to go with some kind of warning with laser. Also V1 did and article about mounting high for laser a while back ago.
Also boomerman actually I got Roy to come in here and to post something. This thread was getting out of control. Mr Roy and I have talked to each other about you and whats going on in here. Which I cant dicuss until we can sort this matter out some more. All i can say at this point in time name calling and calling people liers and not respecting other peoples opinions regardless of some test results is got to stop. I'm having Mr Roy monitor this forum more closely. As far as how Mr Roy deals with this situation and futrure situations is up to him at this point.
