Radar Detectors

[Peter]

I just got PM that was actually helpful (thanks again) and I just can't let someone else close my thread, so - CASE CLOSED. It's a shame though, because you guys do have such a great sense of humor.

Us lot???? A great sense of humour???? Your in the wrong forum arn't ya Peter?????

So go ahead and have a lash. You never know, it might just be the thing which saves your licence.

On the subject of radar detectors, I have a little system in the Jeep which works for HWP radar and mobile speed camera radar. I sit my mobile phone next to the stereo on FM and whenever a Radar comes up ahead, I get little digital beeps from the radio. It really does work for some reason and often from a long distance. I've had it pick up a radar two hills away (2klms). Not sure why it works, but it everytime it goes off, sure enough, there is a radar of some type ahead???

I have to figure out something because when you are a postie you just can't afford to lose your license. I'll try the mobile phone thing in the car, it can't hurt and if it works it wouldn't be the first time something worked that i didn't understand lol.

[Strika]

I think all what you're hearing is is your phone changing cells, nothing to do with radar.

Once it does this there may be a few transmitters within range and they negotiate which one you talk to and you connect to the one with the strongest signal. This results in the radio pinging up some type of harmonic from the phone transmitting and you get audio something like the duh-duh-duh-de-duh, duh-duh-duh-de-duh, duuuuuuh. You can get much the same effect holding your phone near the radio while you're on a call (while the car isn't moving or you're a passenger of course). I have to keep my phone a few feet away from my radio for this reason.

The fact that there is always a radar of some type ahead is because they're bloody everywhere and there is ALWAYS a radar ahead somewhere .

Mick

That's what I thought for a while Mick, but then I monitored it for ages and it gave me about a 98% success ratio???

I have a different system on the bike, I just knock it back two gears and crack it open!

[mike-s]

Mick, that is what i would think too, and from what i remember, it's called "handover" between cells. Never heard about the phenomenon that Strika has mentioned, but i know the sound he means, and i've only heard that while traveling (or shortly before / after receiving a sms).

As (a slight adaptation of what) one of my schoolteachers used to say ("this is neither the time nor the place") you need to choose the time and the place for this kind of behaviour. I'll be going on the road tomorrow and (aside from the fact i need to do an oil change on the 900) i'll be taking the 250 for certain.

[Ratmick]

I have a BlackBerry for work, you can't leave it near the radio as the damn thing is talking to the celluar network all the time receiving emails.

I get dozens and dozens of spam emails from work every day, so it's nice to see they're popping up here . The spam I'm talking about is "I don't know who to ask this query of so I'll email 300+ people and hope one answers' or 'I think this is the right email group, oops, too late it isn't.' or even 'Mick knows about this, who gives a fark if he's on leave'.

Mick