Re: Do jammers work?

["Eric Renneisen" <renneie@hlthsrc.com>]

Chris Kagan wrote:
> The only time I've gotten caught speeding is when I was 
> cresting a huge hill on the highway and a cop was sitting 
> just past it.  
[snip]
> It cost me $175 and the company (Rocky Mtn. Radar or 
> something) will even refund the price of your first ticket 
> if you get caught speeding while using the jammer (if it 
> didn't work, that is).  I wasn't able to claim my ticket 
> since no jammer or detector will go thru a hill.

That's true, but the cop's radar gun can't go through the 
hill either! So, you weren't shot until you were in his 
line of sight. Possibly not enough time to react to your 
detector signal (effectiveness of a detector requires driver 
to slow down), but the jammer should still have worked, 
since it's effectiveness only relies on receiving and 
retransmitting a signal.

Methinks you'd be hard pressed to ever get any money back 
from Rocky Mtn Radar--probably lots of fine print in there. 
I'll save my cash for the V1, and continue to use CB (by far 
the most effective anti-smokey device).

Eric Renneisen
'90 CQ 20V  -  my 'racing-iron'  ;^)
Chattanooga, TN