[trackbird]

Have any of you played with the Bushnell Velocity radar guns yet? There was a guy at Mid Ohio with one and it was rather neat to see the straightaway speeds for some of the race classes, so I thought I should own one someday. That day is today. I ran across a deal on them through my friend the FFL (where I purchase all of my firearms). One of his catalogs had the radar guns in with the Bushnell scopes, so I ordered one. It reads from 6-200 mph and will clock a car from 1,500 feet away (per the manual). It will also clock a baseball from 6-110 mph and 90 feet.

I need to get outside to test this thing, it looks neat. All I can say so far is that it drives my radar detector insane when I squeze the trigger, I guess that's a good sign.

http://www.bushnell.com/products/digital/s...ecs/10-1911.cfm

(IMG:http://www.bushnell.com/products/digital/specs/images/10-1911.jpg)

[severous01]

on base here, one of the cops was calibrating the thing with a tuning fork. he had a set of forks that were labeled 35, 50, and 76 mph. hit the fork, stick it in front of the radar and it's supposed to read whatever the fork is rated at. simple and you get cool sounds.

you wont be able to trick the cops unit unless you are using the same exact model. they have encripted guns that send out a signal like morse code for high powered transmissions. if the incorrect morse code is returned it's disregarded. also, they have higher power units. in order to jam a radar (this is my job in the military, so believe me when i say this) you have to have more power being put into the system than what's going out. so, if you have say...50 watts going out of the radar gun, you would have to have at least 51 going into it. here's the kicker...for ever 1 mile that RF travels, it loses about 50% of it's wattage (or power). for starters, your gun would have to have about 3 times the power of the cop's unit, and it would have to be the same brand or be encrypted as the same brand,