Valentine One Review with V1 connection, Part V The King of Kings of Driving Experience How the Valentine One compares and contrasts to other manufacturers’ models If you’ve ever read reviews of the Valentine One, their marketing literature, or get into discussions about it, things tend to center around the V1’s unique use of arrows. …
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Jul 19
Deep Dive Review: Valentine One V1connection for iPhone or Android with Custom Sweeps, PART IV
Deep Dive Review: Valentine One V1 connection, Part IV Valentine 1 v3.894, V1 Connection LE, Custom Sweeps Detection Performance The Value of Band Segmentation to Improve Alerting Performance A little more than six years ago when was road-testing the first M3-based Beltronics STi-R remote radar detector, I first discovered and published what may turn out …
Jul 12
Deep Dive Review: Valentine One V1 connection for iPhone or Android with Custom Sweeps, PART III
Deep Dive Valentine One Review V1connection, Part III Valentine One Front View I would like to profile some of the extant capabilities and incipient ones, beginning with the V1’s multiple antennae, use of directional arrows, and their interrelated capabilities. Arrows What can I say about the V1’s arrows that have not already been said for …
Jul 08
Deep Dive Review: Valentine One v3.893 with V1connection for iPhone or Android with Custom Sweeps, PART II
Deep Dive Review: Valentine One V1 connection, Part II Introduction Let’s start with a very brief introduction of yours truly. I’m a passionate Oenophile, which in lay terms means I’m lover of fine wine (as is Robert Rosania). While I have found past iterations of the V1 to be quaffable, they haven’t quite been transcendent. …
Jul 06
Deep Dive Review: Valentine One v3.893 with V1connection for iPhone or Android with Custom Sweeps, PART I
Deep Dive Valentine One Review (Summary Conclusion), Part I Updated: 4-27-15* Part I of this series represents my review summation in just three short words, the conclusion of the full deep-dive review to follow. But, I have received some pushback online, from those who have misinterpreted my brief summation (as an ad) which, up until …
Jun 23
Cobra SPX 7800BT Review: Cobra’s best windshield mount detector yet.
Cobra SPX 7800BT Review Cobra SPX 7800BT Budget priced Cobras have often been the butt of jokes by the online radar detector enthusiast community as far back as I can remember. Those feelings were not entirely without merit as Cobra has had a history of producing radar detectors with marginal detection abilities which would cause …
Apr 19
Evolution of police laser (lidar) and its active and passive countermeasures
Updated: 1846Z-5, 23 Apr 14, By Veil GuyWhen the engineers of Veil set out to counter the new speed enforcement targeting threat, called police laser or police lidar, during the early 90s, active countermeasures (ie; laser jammers) were not available. In fact, radar detector companies had yet to devise a way to even detect it. …
Apr 12
Has Beltronics gone Sine Die?
Updated: 1134Z-5, 17 Apr 14, By Veil Guy Beltronics going dark: A case to be made for the reversals of fortune A brief history of the pinnacle years of Beltronics and Escort (ie; the Belscort years) from the perspective of an outsider. While I have been driving with radar detectors since my youth (owning the …
Apr 10
Valentine Research: Does the next decade belong to Mike Valentine?
Updated: 1721Z-5, 12 Apr 14, By Veil Guy Not so long ago, I proclaimed that the last decade belonged to Escort and for good reason. In that span of time the combined organizations of Beltronics and Escort gave us the first (fully realized) GPS-enabled game-changing radar detector (Passport 9500i), the first RDD undetectable radar detector …
Jan 25
Whistler CR90/CR85 Review: The best values going in radar detectors today.
Whistler CR90 Updated: 1136Z-5, 19 Apr 14, By Veil Guy Whistler CR90 & Whistler CR85: The best values going today. Whistler continues to impress me with their continued offerings of budget-valued radar detectors that offer subtly powerful capabilities beyond what their price points would otherwise suggest and without over-the-top marketing promotions. The Whistler CR90 along …
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