with a Radar Jammer
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| (submitted by a radar jammer customer) |
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| Introduction | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
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| My 1st Mistake: I bought one |
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When I first ran across the passive radar "scramblers," I thought I had found secret technology to use against police speed radar guns to avoid tickets.
Unfortunately, I could find absolutely no independent test results or reviews on the web. The units were sold only through a few schlocky-looking e-commerce sites, where they quoted unnamed happy customers and comments from astonished radar experts, but no major car magazines. Reputable electronics dealers and car magazines were silent about the products.
It was a reserved well-kept secret, as secret weapons should be. Right? So I buy a passive Phantom "radar scrambler."
Mistake number one, approximately $300.
I'd used Bel and Escort Passport radar detectors for many years, dating back to the chunky original Cincinnati Microwave Escort. I had developed effective habits for driving with a detector, and in recent years I had gotten, on average, no more than a ticket every 2-3 years.
At first, I continued to drive using these instinctive habits, Eventually I got bold about being out in front of traffic at speed.
I really wanted to believe, and a few incidents convinced me it worked. But without the Phantom, I would have viewed those incidents as normal luck.
Every once in a while, people sail through what seems like a speed trap and don't get stopped, for any of a dozen different reasons, none of which have anything to do with their electronic gadgets. |
