Rite of Passage: 1st Ticket
04-28-2006, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by 98T/A
WRONG the doppler frequency shift of the RADAR(radio detection and RANGING) is designed to measure velocity so as the "waves" bounce off of your car it measures the diff. between the waves and a computer calibrates your speed. So the only way to be accurate with that is to be headding directly toward or away from the source of the emission and as you move farther toward 90deg away from that you become more ambiguous. Yes a ticket for 5 over is BS, but your comprehension of the situation is obviously skewed.
Just trying to help. I do not want anyone on this board to say wrong information and get called out on it.
Just trying to help. I do not want anyone on this board to say wrong information and get called out on it.
Sorry bout that...I actually left out a few words. I meant that he could not have clocked me down the side or at the rear and gotten a correct reading. The only correct reading that he would have gotten would have to be from the front (which he wasn't). By my recent experience, I would have to disagree with you about getting a correct reading heading away from the source. Thanks for the correction though...I had the right idea, just wrong grammar. I will go back and fix it the way I meant it.
I rode with my brother (another Texas cop) a couple of weeks after I got the ticket. I asked him TONS of questions about his radar gun (I am assuming this is what type it was) and basically this is what was proven with multiple cars. Clocked from front (50-55mph) same cars clocked from side (75-95mph), same cars clocked from back (35-105mph). Range got bigger the more cars we clocked.
Clocking from the back while driving behind a car was even more innacurate. We were driving 60 and we clocked other cars in front of us at anywhere from 15 to 120mph.
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04-28-2006, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Wurmfist
The one in his hands is a laser more than likely. I have never seen a hand-help radar gun. I've sat in cop cars and the electronics are bulky. I can't disclaim that there might be a hand-held radar, but I've never seen it. They are always mounted to the front and/or rear of the vehicle and they look like square boxes with a dome on the business end of it. If he's aiming it a device at you like it's a gun, then it's a laser and not radar.
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04-28-2006, 09:32 PM
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I've had my 8 for almost a year and haven't had a ticket yet, however one night I was driving through a 25 and a cop was on my butt, as soon as I started to go above 30 you could tell he was going RIGHT AT 30 because he started falling back. He obviously wanted to pick me up since no one drives 30 in a 25 (not even the cops I've seen), but I luckily kept it under control. Stupid cops that do that.
04-29-2006, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by aggietiff28
Sorry bout that...I actually left out a few words. I meant that he could not have clocked me down the side or at the rear and gotten a correct reading. The only correct reading that he would have gotten would have to be from the front (which he wasn't). By my recent experience, I would have to disagree with you about getting a correct reading heading away from the source. Thanks for the correction though...I had the right idea, just wrong grammar. I will go back and fix it the way I meant it.
I rode with my brother (another Texas cop) a couple of weeks after I got the ticket. I asked him TONS of questions about his radar gun (I am assuming this is what type it was) and basically this is what was proven with multiple cars. Clocked from front (50-55mph) same cars clocked from side (75-95mph), same cars clocked from back (35-105mph). Range got bigger the more cars we clocked.
Clocking from the back while driving behind a car was even more innacurate. We were driving 60 and we clocked other cars in front of us at anywhere from 15 to 120mph.
I rode with my brother (another Texas cop) a couple of weeks after I got the ticket. I asked him TONS of questions about his radar gun (I am assuming this is what type it was) and basically this is what was proven with multiple cars. Clocked from front (50-55mph) same cars clocked from side (75-95mph), same cars clocked from back (35-105mph). Range got bigger the more cars we clocked.
Clocking from the back while driving behind a car was even more innacurate. We were driving 60 and we clocked other cars in front of us at anywhere from 15 to 120mph.
04-29-2006, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by 98T/A
sounds good. Way to be pro-active and learn about something you felt the need to know and will help you out, but remember the radar needs to be recalibrated everyday. Great Job!
04-29-2006, 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by aggietiff28
Asked about that too. Apparently there is a button that is actually on the radar that immediately recalibrates it. Not sure if that meets the requirements of the law, but it can be recalibrated after every traffic stop if needed.
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