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POP Radar Testing


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 Recommendations

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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, establish a vehicle tracking history, and then switch to normal mode to obtain the exact speed.

Therefore POP mode is seldom, if ever used by law enforcement and should not be a major concern as an "important feature" in considering your radar detector.

In fact, most radar detectors that have the POP mode have it disabled by default, as activating POP on detectors, opens it up to receive a false alerts.

Radar Roy obtained a MPH hand held K band radar gun to perform the following tests.

Test Results
POP MODE K - 1/4 mile test
Detector Detected POP
Bel RX55 Yes
Bel RX65 Yes
Bel RX75 No
Bel 995 Yes
Bel 955 Yes
Bel STi Driver Yes
Bel STi-R Yes
Cobra 9730 No
Cobra 9930 No
Cobra XRSR9G Yes
Escort 9500i Yes
Escort 9500 ci Yes
Escort 8500 X50 Yes
Escort Solo 2 No
Escort SR7 No
Whistler Pro 58 Yes
Whistler Pro 78 Yes
Whistler 1788 Yes
Whistler Pro 3500 Yes
Whistler Cruisader Yes
Whistler Fuzion Yes
Whistler XTR-520 Yes
Whistler XTR-560 Yes
Valentine 1 (v1.8) Yes


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