Radar Roy's Badge Ratings: Part 2

	Pages
1	How We Test
2	Product Introduction
3	X-Band Testing
4	K-Band Testing
5	KA-Band Testing
6	Filtering
7	Laser Detector Testing
8	RDD Testing
9	POP Testing
10	Buyer Beware: passive radar jamming doesn't work!
11	Buyer Beware: active radar jamming can send you to jail!
12	Active Laser Jamming
13	Radar Roy's Badge Ratings
14	Radar Roy's Badge Ratings: Part 2
15	Radar Roy's Recommendations

Radar Roy's

Badge Ratings

Legend

5 B A D G E S
The best!

4 B A D G E S
Very good.

3 B A D G E S
Good value.

Radar Roy doesn't publish ratings for products receiving less than three badges, except for this passive radar system.

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You get what you pay for, and this is specially true with radar detectors.

Radar Roy compiled all the results of his testings, and offers the following "Badge Ratings".

Detector

Rating

Overview

Cobra XRS-9950

Cobra advertises that their new Cobra detectors as having 12 bands! This is somewhat misleading as there are only 3 radar bands and one laser band.

Both Cobra models tested have had difficulty detecting POP radar.

Cobra XRS-R9G

Great idea but poor follow through!

In off axis testing the XRS R9G would not alert until the unit was within line of sight.

RMR 450C

A passive radar/laser jammer manufactured by Rocky Mountain Radar. You would have better luck jamming radar by placing a cinder block on your dashboard than using this unit! As for radar detection, very low range.

RMR D-550

One of the 1st detectors manufactured by Attowave for this company. Defeated the Spectre II, however too many false alerts.

RMR Mini D

A poor performing radar detector! During testing by Speed Lab's at the 2003 Radar Detector Shoot-Out, this unit would not alert on Ka band!

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