[CamasM3e93]

Why do so many highway patrolman drive around (or sit on the shoulder with) their radar guns running? Seems like it gives their presence away to speeders using a detector but then I wonder if it's a safety thing to slow down the traffic around them? My apologies if you've answered this before.

[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by CamasM3e93

Why do so many highway patrolman drive around (or sit on the shoulder with) their radar guns running? Seems like it gives their presence away to speeders using a detector but then I wonder if it's a safety thing to slow down the traffic around them? My apologies if you've answered this before.

Well radar is a different technology than LIDAR. If you are observing an officer/deputy with a LIDAR gun in hand, it doesn't emit a signal until the trigger is depressed (…e.g….like turning a light switch on and off). Even if your detector is able to pick up the transmitted signal, it's already too late. The LIDAR beam is sent directly at a moving vehicle and the signal received is specific to the target vehicle, unlike radar. Radar - which is technology we rarely use these days - does emit a constant signal and is easier to detect.

[CamasM3e93]

Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

Well radar is a different technology than LIDAR. If you are observing an officer/deputy with a LIDAR gun in hand, it doesn't emit a signal until the trigger is depressed (…e.g….like turning a light switch on and off). Even if your detector was able to pick up the transmitted signal, it's already too late. Radar - which is technology we rarely use these days - does emit a constant signal and is easier to detect.

I recall you mentioning lidar in an earlier post though not sure if it's in use up here. At least in Washington and Oregon, Ka radar seems to be the standard for the highway patrol. I thought i saw some Ka used by CA highway patrol on my last trip down in the spring.

[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by CamasM3e93

I recall you mentioning lidar in an earlier post though not sure if it's in use up here. At least in Washington and Oregon, Ka radar seems to be the standard for the highway patrol. I thought i saw some Ka used by CA highway patrol on my last trip down in the spring.

The CHP patrol vehicles are equipped with radar, but it's not a handheld device. The radar devices are positioned at the base of the front/rear windshields. The handheld devices are the LIDAR guns. Our Sheriff Department Ford Explorer patrol vehicles don't have radar; some of the older Crown Victoria's do. I run LIDAR exclusively.

[jamesinaz]

I live out in the sticks on a 2 lane road with zero side traffic for 8 miles. Speed limit is 45. People regularly creep up to mid 60s. And every once in a while the sheriffs dept runs out here and hands out some tickets in a vain attempt to stop it.

So I play the game and usually set my cruise control to about 52-53. If someone climbs up my ass I ignore them. There are some passing areas and if they want to go faster more power to them.

Yesterday going into town I got a large pickup pulling a horse trailer capable of holding about 8 horses right up my ass. I ignore it. Come over a rise in the road and there is the sheriff. Other side of the road and I think just finished giving out a ticket. I instantly slow to 45 from 52. I KNOW if he was using radar or whatever he got me. Stay at 45 with cruise control and watch the read view. Damn. He does a u-turn.

Follows me and giant pickup for 4 miles into town. Never pulls me over. I think my strategy of 52 is working well.

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by jamesinaz

I live out in the sticks on a 2 lane road with zero side traffic for 8 miles. Speed limit is 45. People regularly creep up to mid 60s. And every once in a while the sheriffs dept runs out here and hands out some tickets in a vain attempt to stop it.

So I play the game and usually set my cruise control to about 52-53. If someone climbs up my ass I ignore them. There are some passing areas and if they want to go faster more power to them.

Yesterday going into town I got a large pickup pulling a horse trailer capable of holding about 8 horses right up my ass. I ignore it. Come over a rise in the road and there is the sheriff. Other side of the road and I think just finished giving out a ticket. I instantly slow to 45 from 52. I KNOW if he was using radar or whatever he got me. Stay at 45 with cruise control and watch the read view. Damn. He does a u-turn.

Follows me and giant pickup for 4 miles into town. Never pulls me over. I think my strategy of 52 is working well.

Radar can't differentiate and will reflect off the larger target; he probably got the truck. AFAIK, the officer is supposed to correlate the radar reading with what he sees. There's the classic tree clocked at something like 60mph.

Unless the radar technology police use is better than what I used in the FAA...

[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by ezaircon4jc

Radar can't differentiate and will reflect off the larger target; he probably got the truck. AFAIK, the officer is supposed to correlate the radar reading with what he sees. There's the classic tree clocked at something like 60mph.

Unless the radar technology police use is better than what I used in the FAA...

You're exactly right! With radar you have three readings, which include [u]your[/i] speed and the speed of the largest target. You have to interpret the readings.

[Sedan_Clan]

leopard print and The Clan descending on the local shooting range for some AR training. Anybody in the SoCal area is welcome to join.

[leopard print]

Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

leopard print and The Clan descending on the local shooting range for some AR training. Anybody in the SoCal area is welcome to join.

Good times with Sedan_Clan. Camera slipped on the second picture…

[leopard print]

I like your idea of a getting a canyon cruise together Sedan_Clan. Maybe follow it up with some more rounds at one of the ranges? I got the itch back after having not shot in forever.

[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by leopard print

I like your idea of a getting a canyon cruise together Sedan_Clan. Maybe follow it up with some more rounds at one of the ranges? I got the itch back after having not shot in forever.

We could cruise ACH early and then hit up the range near there. I would love to get a private bay and work rifle-to-pistol transition drills with a shot timer.

[leopard print]

Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

We could cruise ACH early and then hit up the range near there. I would love to get a private bay and work rifle-to-pistol transition drills with a shot timer.

Let’s go! Anyone else in? The more the merrier.

[UncleWede]

Can you confirm that putting on my flashers allows me carte Blanche in terms of parking anywhere that is normally illegal? Fire hydrants, handicap, red zones, peoples' driveway, random spots in the middle of a street

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

Can you confirm that putting on my flashers allows me carte Blanche in terms of parking anywhere that is normally illegal? Fire hydrants, handicap, red zones, peoples' driveway, random spots in the middle of a street

As long as you're making some kind of delivery. At least that seems to be the case. Apparently landscapers can also park on sidewalks.

[iminhell1]

I feel like if you have a rotating light on the roof or on the dash (amber, red or red/blue) it would be acceptable.

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by iminhell1

I feel like if you have a rotating light on the roof or on the dash (amber, red or red/blue) it would be acceptable.

On my landscape truck?

[///d]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

Can you confirm that putting on my flashers allows me carte Blanche in terms of parking anywhere that is normally illegal? Fire hydrants, handicap, red zones, peoples' driveway, random spots in the middle of a street

All you need is at minimum one of the following three;

A) gov't or state plates
B) bumper full of hippie stickers
C) GMC or Chevy SUV with a stick figure family sticker on the back

Those allow you to do whatever you want

[UncleWede]

@Sedan_Clan was that you fell asleep when I had my medical issue at Weiss and Robertson????

[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

@Sedan_Clan was that you fell asleep when I had my medical issue at Weiss and Robertson????

Lol! I only sleep in secret.

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

Lol! I only sleep in secret.

So no snoring on the recordings

[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

So no snoring on the recordings

….Nope! Nor sex with a prostitute on an open mic being broadcast countywide.

[cmyx6go]

I must admit, I laughed out loud when I read this about the armed robber that was shot by the elderly store owner in CA. Running out of the store saying "He shot my arm off". Good for him, too bad the owner had a heart attack afterwards.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/californi...y-suspect-shot