Radar Jammers

[Blackbird]

Hi, I have one on my bike. I spoke to my policeman freind and he assures me having it is not illegal, but operating it dilleberatly if proven is perverting the cause of justice. The key with it is that you use it until you find the trap, slow down to appropriate speed then switch off on your consul. This allows them to attain a reading which is what they are after. If you leave it switched on then of coarse your breaking the law as you are preventing them getting a reading. Provided they get a reading you are within the perameters of the law.

I'm a bit confused. Surely the only way it triggers is getting hit with the laser beam. How can you slow down once you've been pinged unless you mean let them ping you a second time? Sorry to be dense.

[sAsLEX]

I'm a bit confused. Surely the only way it triggers is getting hit with the laser beam. How can you slow down once you've been pinged unless you mean let them ping you a second time? Sorry to be dense.

They are both a detector and a emitter, so once you see you are being painted by laser, it beeps or something, and you then slow down to legal speeds whilst the emitter is covering your arse, then turn it off while doing 99 so the cop then gets a reading of that



they may wonder why you did that near stoppie though..........

[Blackbird]

Ah - see what you mean now. Duhhhhh it's been a long day. Thanks

I don't know whether it applies to the blinder, but one of them only jams for 5 secs anyway and takes a minute to reset.

[Skyryder]

Rocky Mountain products have a terrible reputation in independent tests if you do a decent net search, but have no direct experience. Best to be avoided methinks.

I ran into a guy who had a Rocky Mountain jammer. He swore by it. They do have a bad rep. Thing is where does the bad rep originaly come from?

I've been interested in this for some time just can not make my mind up which way to go; jammer or detector.

Skyryder

[Blackbird]

I ran into a guy who had a Rocky Mountain jammer. He swore by it. They do have a bad rep. Thing is where does the bad rep originaly come from?

I've been interested in this for some time just can not make my mind up which way to go; jammer or detector.

Skyryder

The tests I've read say they don't work. I'm pretty sure they are what is called a passive jammer as opposed to the active Blinder. (passive don't work by the physics explanation given on one website)

If it's to be one or the other, I'd say a detector simply because lasers aren't so prevalent as Ka band microwave used by the Highway Patrol in marked and unmarked cars. I've only been lasered once and I was at legal speeds!

[Skyryder]

They are both a detector and a emitter, so once you see you are being painted by laser, it beeps or something, and you then slow down to legal speeds whilst the emitter is covering your arse, then turn it off while doing 99 so the cop then gets a reading of that



they may wonder why you did that near stoppie though..........

So ok you turn it off. Now I know this is a silly question but if you have been pinged by mufti and you turn it back on and mufti is still ahead as you are not sure if you have passed him/her seems youcould still get nailed

Skyryder

[dangerous]

So ok you turn it off. Now I know this is a silly question but if you have been pinged by mufti and you turn it back on and mufti is still ahead as you are not sure if you have passed him/her seems youcould still get nailed

Skyryder

They are usually standing in the bushs aiming the laser gun at you (with chase car around the corner), jammer goes off sorts out the signal, turn jammer off... you slow down by then you should spot the wee bugger... flick the jammer back on and bugger off into the sunset.

[TonyB]

The tests I've read say they don't work.

I found (and posted on here ages ago) an article that claimed that not only did the Rocky Mountian jammer not work at all, it also had no capability of emitting any sort of signal at all.

[Ixion]

The cops are not stupid though. Well, not all of them. Well, some of them have a sort of rat cunning. Oh hell, some of them have the sense to ride bikes anyway. So they are surely gonna be pretty suspicious if a bike steams in sight, obviously fanging it, and then the laser shows 90 kph?

Also, how long does it give you. The laser thing gets hit, jams the signal, and goes beep beep. So you throw out the best bower, and start winching back the clock. What next? Does the cop have to pull the trigger again ie when he pulls the trigger does it send out a single pulse, or does it keep sending while his finger is on the trigger. Presumably, he pulls the trigger looks at the display , and sees , what? Not 90kph, cos you're still shedding speed. So what does he see while its being jammed? And then he triggers it again? So how long do you have before you need to switch it of? (BTW, would need a convenient handlebar mounted switch for that. And dont forget to switch it back on!)

[dangerous]

So they are surely gonna be pretty suspicious if a bike steams in sight, obviously fanging it, and then the laser shows 90 kph?

Also, how long does it give you. The laser thing gets hit, jams the signal, and goes beep beep. So you throw out the best bower, and start winching back the clock. What next? Does the cop have to pull the trigger again ie when he pulls the trigger does it send out a single pulse, or does it keep sending while his finger is on the trigger. Presumably, he pulls the trigger looks at the display , and sees , what? Not 90kph, cos you're still shedding speed. So what does he see while its being jammed? And then he triggers it again? So how long do you have before you need to switch it of?

Having used a laser trap I'll tell ya this, it isent easy on bikes... 1st you need to get the tiny red dot on the target... pull the trigger... hold it there for about 4 secs (depending on how good you are at keeping the target) then it will lock on and show the speed in the view finder.
My 1st time took me 8 trys before I locked on, so... the average copper wouldent be to sus of the unit jamming their laser

[Lou Girardin]

FFS. For the umpteenth time, they are NOT illegal.
They transmit light, not RF so you do not need a licence.
The only law on the books referring to interfering with traffic surveillance equipment relates to speed cameras only, not mobile radar or laser.
It is also not perverting or obstructing justice. There is no proof that you were committing an offence, because the jammer did it's job.
Buy and use one in good health Shaun.

[Pixie]

I had a cop try to get a reading off me (in the car ) for a full 800 m. my V1 laser alert was screaming and the jammer was doing it's job.
He gave me a funny look as I drove past

[scumdog]

Having used a laser trap I'll tell ya this, it isent easy on bikes... 1st you need to get the tiny red dot on the target... pull the trigger... hold it there for about 4 secs (depending on how good you are at keeping the target) then it will lock on and show the speed in the view finder.
My 1st time took me 8 trys before I locked on, so... the average copper wouldent be to sus of the unit jamming their laser

It's a LOT quicker when you use a tripod and have it pre-aimed for a specific point on the road where you know the bike/car is going to go straight into the beam...

[scumdog]

They are usually standing in the bushs aiming the laser gun at you (with chase car around the corner), jammer goes off sorts out the signal, turn jammer off... you slow down by then you should spot the wee bugger... flick the jammer back on and bugger off into the sunset.

Pfff! I've seen YOUR attempts at ticket avoidance matey!!