Re: Don't wait! Order NOW!

[Khan Klatt <khan@mediaaccess.com>]

At 10:13 AM -0400 10/4/2000, Ng, Kevin (Bank of America Commercial 
Finance wrote:
>http://www.radiantlabs.com/products/sgradx.cfm


In reality, this product is practically worthless as a "stealth" wax.

While it does appear to work to reduce the range at which you can be 
picked up by radar, this doesn't mean you'll avoid a ticket.

1. The most commonly used Police radar is K band, and the Ka band is 
the most advanced radar used in some locales.

2. For K band, the product reduces the range of acquisition by 420 
feet. In other words, the maximum distance that the K band radar can 
pick you up is 3824 feet, while the maximum distance the K band radar 
can pick you up using this product is 3404 feet. So, if you detect 
the radar at 3800 feet, you have 400 feet to slow down. Sounds good 
so far.

3. For Ka band, the difference is even greater-- 633 feet, but the 
distances we're talking about are 4870 feet and 4237. Still sounds 
good so far.

4. The traditional targeting range for speed enforcement is typically 
less than 1/4 mile, or 1320 feet. In other words, in most typical 
applications of a radar gun (at or under 1320 feet), the product only 
limits X band radar which have a range of 1100 feet, giving you 120 
feet to brake after hearing the alarm. Not sounding quite so good 
anymore. X band radar is rarely used, and K and Ka radar is used at 
distances under a 1/4 mile!

5. This is made even worse by the fact that often cops will keep a 
radar turned off, and just turn it on for the sake of taking a 
reading, and that is right after you turned a corner and just a 
couple hundred yards (600 feet or so) away from a cop.

In other words, since most radar speeds are taken in under a 1/4 
mile, the only thing you can hope for is that your local donut biters 
use X band radar, and then, only use it at the greatest range the 
older guns can support, and then that they leave it on so that you 
can detect it prior to its range.

So unless you live in a really flat area where cops turn on, and 
leave on the radar, or where they attempt to pick up your speed from 
greater than a 1/4 mile away, this product is a waste of your money-- 
OTHER than the use -- purely as a car wax.

These facts are from their own page.
<http://www.radiantlabs.com/products/results.cfm>


-Khan
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Khan Klatt                                         khan@mediaaccess.com

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