POP Radar Test

POP Radar Test

MPH Industries first introduced POP radar technology (also known as the Super Bee) in its radar guns in 1999 as a way to defeat radar detectors. Today MPH's radar guns while operating in POP mode, can defeat over 85% of the radar detectors in use today.

POP mode works by sending out a quick burst of pulse radar at approximately 67 milliseconds. MPH Industries admits that while in this mode, that the displayed speed of a vehicle may not be accurate. They recommend that the officer only use this mode to obtain an estimate of speed from the target vehicle. And then switch to normal mode to obtain the exact speed.

However, Radar Roy has spoken to some law enforcement officers that have had the opportunity to use this technology, and there was never any specific training from the officer's agency and/or the manufacture on the proper use of the POP mode.

When a department obtains new equipment, they often send it to the field officers and expect them to spend the time reading the operating manual. When you get a new TV or DVD, how often do you read the manual to learn its operation before you use it? Without this proper training, can you expect that the officer will properly operate the equipment?

Radar Roy obtained a MPH hand held K band radar gun to perform the following tests on April 18 and May 8, 2004 for the Radar Detector Rumble

ﾠTest Results

ﾠPOP MODE Ka - 1/4 mile test
Detector	Detected POP
Bel RX55	Yes
Bel RX65	Yes
Bel RX75	No
Escort 8500 X50	Yes
Escort Solo 2 *	No
Escort SR7	No
Super Stealth 9000	Unknown **
PNI 7600 *	No
RMR450C	No
Whistler Pro 58	Yes
Whistler Pro 73	Yes
Whistler Pro 3450	Yes
Valentine 1	No

* As cordless radar detectors switch themselves off and on in milliseconds as a way to conserve battery life, it is doubtful that any cordless radar detector could ever defeat POP3. Even plugging in a cordless radar detector would not help, as a cordless is designed to be operated cordless as a matter of design.

** As the Super Stealth 9000 consistently false alerted during power up, we were unable to complete this test

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