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      08-07-2022, 10:09 AM   #99
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Originally Posted by BugKiller View Post
Instant on radar its the same. Used to be California Highway Patrol (CHP) bought cheap radar units that required a long warm up period ...

[An auto loving late night comedian was famous for jokes about CHP'ers getting testicular cancer due to leaving the radar guns in their laps between uses ... but I digress.]

... NHP was not cheap. I was doing 140 north of Tonopah and got pulled over by a NHP'er in a jeep. I realized it was a "police" car at the same time my radar detector went into angry bird mode.
Yeah radar detectors def aren't 100% solution. I run mine with waze simultaneously, I think that's about as good as it gets.

Btw did you not get handcuffed being pulled over at 140?
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