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OK, now that I have gotten a little rest, I can continue with my real-world radar detector driving experiences of yesterday. I continued on my easterly route on I-78 through north-central New Jersey to I-287 North towards the I-87 portion of the New York Throughway. I had seen two other vehicles—a Red Jeep Grand Cherokee …

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I SWORE, to myself on Friday, that I wasn’t going to conduct any testing of radar detectors this weekend only to find myself getting the itch to do so this morning—today was just too perfect a day—weather-wise—too not go driving. As it turned out, I am glad I broke that promise to myself, because today …

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During my 400-mile plus driving circuit this weekend to test out the new Whistler Pro 78 and XTR-690 radar detectors, my Blinder M-20 which is installed on my silver 540i developed a fault and its diagnostic circuitry kicked-in alerting me to the fault. I was able to get Blinder Extreme on the phone on Saturday …

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I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to the brave men and women who are fighting/defending our freedoms and to those comrades that have “fallen.” The same goes to all of our allies who serve to help ensure peace for the benefit of all mankind. May GOD bless all of you and your families …

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And that includes some of the highest gas prices I have seen [in the U.S.] — $3.29 for regular and $3.49 for mid-grade, ouch! Am I glad, I don’t drive a gas guzzling SUV. Ohio also has the distinction of being the home to the three leading high-end radar detector manufacturers — Beltronics, Escort, and …

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Beltronics has indicated to us that the daily production level output of the their hand-assembled STI driver radar detector is slated to double by mid June 2006. For those of you who are waiting for an STI driver, this is promising news as back-order levels have been fairly signficant and new units have been slow …

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With our annual appearance at SpeedZones rapidly approaching (last week of June) we have procured an arrest-me-red 2006 C6 corvette convertible for this year’s western route of our radar detector review. This year we are expecting to compare: The latest versions of the best radar detectors currently being produced: Beltronics RX-65 Pro, Beltronics STI Driver, …

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2006 is turning out to be a very strong year for police laser. According to a source close to the acquisition process of traffic monitoring departments around the country and abroad, sales of police laser is growing at an ever-increasing rate. This is likely due to the following key factors: 1) Older police radar guns …

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Hard to believe that Easter is already upon us…time is flying. I had an interesting conversation with Craig Peterson today of Peterson Publishing. For those of you who don’t already know it, I am a huge fan of Craig’s literary work…He has a natural talent for writing stories that are not only fun to read …

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New Police Laser/LIDAR is Coming to a Road New You It’s nice that mild weather is finally upon us…although I have no complaints about the “warm” winter we just had. Now that we are approaching the “drop-top” season, it’s good to know what new forms of threats we will all be facing this driving season: …

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