Re: Thanks. EURO DRIVING TIPS

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

Chris Maresca <ckm@eainet.com> wrote:

>At 8:55 AM -0500 1/14/98, Michael Murphy wrote:
>>And as I mentioned to one lister, I'm taking my Made in USA
>>red-haired radar detector (actually, speed warning device) along.

>Two things about this.

>1. European police often use different frequencies for radar
>2. In some European countries, even owning one of these can land you in jail
>   notably France, Austria and the Netherlands.  Dunno about Germany...

Radar _detectors_ are legal in Holland, but they're mostly useless. The
frequency thing, as Chris said. I seem to recall reading a test recently
where only one detector actually worked, and that one was made in Holland...
No radar _jammers_ are illegal here...

Tom

PS Yes, I know the original posting didn't concern _electronic_ radar
detectors.