with Radar Jammers
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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 6th Mistake: I let 1000's of false alerts lull me |
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A year went by, with no tickets.
Then, as if to mark the anniversary, I got a ticket in a waterfront suburb of Seattle. While driving to the town library, in heavy traffic, the radar detector sounded the usual false alarm.
False alerts were frequent with my jammers. I ignored it.
Mistake number six, $152 fine.
The motorcycle cop sauntered up to my window, radar gun in hand, and showed me my speed.
Add a $375 attorney fee.
Radar Jammer Dealer Responds
I called the Radar Jammer Dealer and confronted them again with this new data.
The girl who answered the phone told me my problem: the unit was mounted too close to the hood. (It was mounted where the instructions suggested, just above the dash, about six inches above the level of the hood.) She explained that the "mirage effect" of sunshine hitting my hood was interfering with the unit's ability to scramble radar.
What??
I repeatedly asked, several different ways, for a clarification of how light waves interfere with K Band radar waves, when microwaves are hardly even in the same spectrum as visible light.
She repeated her explanation, obviously reading it from a script, because it never changed, except for her mounting frustration with me for not swallowing the line.
I asked to talk to a technician, who contradicted her, saying that the box should be mounted exactly where I had it. But he would not address the conflicting information or the issue of "mirages."
Whether my jammer had ever scrambled radar was no longer of any concern to me. I had two tickets in 13 months, with a scrambler operational on my windshield, and it had done absolutely nothing to protect me.
Snake Oil
I was convinced this was nothing more than a cheap radar detector mixed with good old-fashioned snake oil. |
