Marc
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Radar Detector
Any advice on this. I hear that the new radar guns don't register on the older detectors.
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Woooosh
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I haven't seen a radar gun used around Rosarito since 2006. Where are you seeing them?
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Bob and Susan
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yea...i havent seen any either and i travel the road alot
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Dave
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Save your money for mordida
Marc, if you get pulled over for speeding it won't be because of what the radar gun says but because of what the cop says the radar
gun says. 
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bajaguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Marc
Any advice on this. I hear that the new radar guns don't register on the older detectors. |
Depends on the type of "band" that the radar unit is working on.........can be K, Ka or X. Many businesses use devices such as microwave ovens that
give a "false positive" for X band radar
They may even be using Laser or LADAR type traffic speed measuring devices.
Before you purchase a detector, check and see what type of devices it detects.
[Edited on 10-28-2011 by bajaguy]
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Marc
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
I haven't seen a radar gun used around Rosarito since 2006. Where are you seeing them? |
Posted by Stormcatcher on Nomads;
After being pulled over North of La paz, 2 Camino Federales, one in the middle of the road with a radar gun, and the other writing tickets, I was 1 of
more than 15 cars, the last one also, I gave him my US license(US plates), spoke only English, and cried B...S..., after another 15 minutes he sent me
on my way. After getting to San Diego, I went and bought a radar detector, it has saved me at least 20 times in the last couple of years, mainly
between San Jose and Cabo, and now my accountant and attorneys have them also.
[Edited on 10-28-2011 by Marc]
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bajaguy
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Check it out
Next time you get stopped by "RADAR", ask to see the speed display, and ask them the last time the RADAR was calibrated and how the calibration was
done........
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BajaNomad
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
Next time you get stopped by "RADAR", ask to see the speed display, and ask them the last time the RADAR was calibrated and how the calibration was
done........ |
The funny (or not really funny) thing about this is that for them to properly use a doppler radar speed measuring unit, they're supposed to watch your
speed entirely through the beam (including driving in and out of the beam). If they can show you the speed, they didn't watch you leave the
measurement beam. Arguable in court, but it sells most people seeing the speed # blinking on the doppler RADAR unit.
What Dave says is the reality in Mexico though... it's not what the RADAR unit says, it's what the police officer says the RADAR unit
says (right or wrong). Thinking that traffic court in Baja offers similar opportunities to protest as the USA - IMHO - is, well, a "stretch".
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ncampion
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I was stopped just South of Guerrero Nergo a couple of months ago by a Federal Police with a radar gun. He was very polite, pointed to my speedometer
and said, "55 maxima" and sent me on my way. Couldn't believe it. I even slowed down - for a while. It's impossible to drive 55.
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Bajatripper
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I'm with those who think that having a radar detector down these parts is silly. Come on, be truthful, how many of us DON'T speed while driving down
here? Given how low the maximum speed limit is on most highways in Mexico, I've never been pulled over on the highway when I didn't deserve a ticket
for speeding.
There most certainly is but one side to every story: the TRUTH. Variations of it are nothing but lies.
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