To answer my own question:
http://www.valentine1.com/lab/MikesLabRpt3.asp

I never knew how customizable my v1 was before...

 

Get a Laser Interceptor laser jammer and a Cheetah wireless fitting kit.

http://www.laser-interceptorusa.com/

http://www.cheetahusa.com/scshop/Sec26.htm

 

For whatever reason I thought that LI product was not compatible with the cheetah wireless setup.

 

Actually, I thought that it was but I just talked to them and they said that it wasn't compatible. I guess you would have to get the Laser Pro Park laser jammer instead that is almost as good as the Laser Interceptor at jamming all lidar guns in the U.S.

 

Honestly, I wasn't all that impressed with the cheetah hardware. Yes, it makes wiring up the jammer much easier, but if that unit fails you've got problems. I'll take the wired one for the win. It's permanent and probably won't fail (knock on wood).

 

Check out my group buy!

https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...s-feb-7-a.html

 

What's the chance that Valentine will come out with a new model that incorporates a GPS feature like the new Escort "Passport 9500ix" model?...I'd hate to spend $500 on a V1 and have it be obsolete in the future...

 

First, Valentine always offers upgrades on their units for a nominal fee so your V1 will never be obsolete.

To answer the other questions about GPS compatibility, I have no idea... I would have to assume that Escort has some sort of the patent on the GPS feature just as Valentine has a patent on the arrows. It would certainly be nice to have both features combined into one unit but I'm not sure we'll ever see that happen.

However, having to choose between the two, I'll take the arrows every day of the week. I have four or five spots on my commute that are falses. I know where they are and I know how long the signals last. The arrows, IMO, are way more important than weeding out minimal false alarms. A beeping radar detector really doesn't offer enough info about what is happening. The arrows are the key!

 

As many have said before: the Valentine-1.

 

asian image why so rude? not only that but taste in radar detectors sucks

 

OK I know laser jammers are illegal in some states lik here, here is my question. The Passport SRX is called alaser shifter. It is not a jammer as it does not send a return signal to the Lidar unit, it redirects the laser signal to the ground so there is no return signal, or WTF? Is this still illegal? I think this is in a gray area maybe, laser jamming is not against any Federal law as it is not regulated by the FCC but by Department of Agriculture. It is against the State law here in Va.
By the way the Valentine is the best windshield mount at detecting laser and x band, there are several that are just as good at detecting K and Ka. I have a convertible and just got tired of putting the winshield mount away so it wouldn't get stolen. I am running a reconditioned by Escort Passport SR-1 it works great and it was just $150. It is not the best but it is hard to steal and will do until I can upgrade to a Passport SRX or SR-7. If Valentine made a remote unit I would buy it.

 

Escort calls it a laser shifter but it is a laser jammer. They just like to come up with different marketing names for different functions. A laser jammer, or shifter as Escort calls it, receives the pulses from a laser gun and it then produces a jamming code which pulses infrared light and attempts to confuse the laser gun so that it doesn't know which light pulsing is its own. If the laser gun doesn't know which light pulse it is seeing, it can't figure out your distance or the speed you are travelling over that period of time.

 

Passport claims that is not what the shifter does at all as I mentioned, they claim the shifter actually receives the signal and acts like a prism and redirects it to the ground, this is why the have two pick ups on the front of the car so as to pick up all signals and redirect them. Is this actually what it does. That I can't prove either way, does it work, I only have the word of a friend that says it does. They have taken this approach supposedly to beat the laser jammer laws. If it emits any signal back at the laser other than reflected it is a jammer and therefore illegal in VA. I appreciate your response and I know what a jammer is, my question was if this works like Passport says is it a jammer and still illegal, as they claim it is not a jammer but a redirector. By the way I am pretty sure if this works it is a jammer and illegal because I can't figure out how the laser signal would not have enough signal reflected to get your speed.

 

Don't waste your money. The only thing that consistently works to defeat laser is a jammer that uses laser diodes. Not LED's, not prisms... Those are gimmicks.

Radar detectors are illegal in VA but you're running one of those. Might as well go all the way and just buy a true laser diode device.

Here's a video I shot and edited last Saturday. The Blinder is a LED device. It actually fires LED's back at the police laser. You can see how well it works.... The LI unit uses true laser diodes. There are couple of other brands that use laser diodes as well. They're not cheap but they work.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjLrqCPXilI[/media]

 

It is a laser jammer period. Regardless of what name Escort likes to place on it, it works the exact same way as every other laser jammer and there is no "prism" effect that redirects it towards the ground...that is a load of BS. It receives the laser gun's pps (pulses per second) and it has a look up table of jam codes for that particular laser gun. It then starts to pulse at the exact same pps so that the laser gun doesn't know which return signal it is seeing. If the laser gun can't determine which signal is its own, it can't figure out the distance so it can't figure out your speed over a certain distance.

Go to this site and you can see that different laser guns used by the police have a certain number of pps or pulses per second. Laser jammers such as the Escort ZR3, Escort ZR4, Blinder, Laser Interceptor, Laser Pro Park, etc. basically all operate the exact same way but the jammers with the laser diodes work better than the jammers with the (leds) or light emitting diodes. Laser Diodes are many times more powerful than leds so the diode jammers like the Laser Interceptor and the Laser Pro Park will jam laser more effectively.

REPEAT THIS WITH ME...LASER SHIFTER EQUALS LASER JAMMER


http://guysoflidar.com/

http://guysoflidar.com/laser-guns.html

http://guysoflidar.com/tech.html


Laser jammer test:

http://guysoflidar.com/july-2008/laser-jammer-test.html


Good reading about the difference between a laser jammer and laser shifter:

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...r-shifter.html






I just got an email from Escort and this is what they said about the difference between a laser shifter and a a laser jammer.

"It is good to hear from you. There is no difference, it is just semantics. Thank you for your interest in Escort!



Radar Laser Experts
5440 West Chester Road
West Chester Ohio 45069

Customer Service Department
1-800-543-1608
8 AM - 6 PM M-F EST

Sales 1-800-433-3487"