Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site masscomp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!masscomp!trb From: trb@masscomp.UUCP (Andy Tannenbaum) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Radar detector query Message-ID: <159@masscomp.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 14:38:35 EST Article-I.D.: masscomp.159 Posted: Sat Dec 1 14:38:35 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 05:06:19 EST References: <108@ihtpa.UUCP> Reply-To: trb@masscomp.UUCP (Andy Tannenbaum) Organization: Masscomp - Westford, MA Lines: 30 Summary: I'm a long time Whistler owner, first a Q-1000 and now a Spectrum (the Q-1000 was ripped off). I figure that there's no real difference between Spectrum and Escort, and I figure that there are other boxes with similar specs. Right now, I drive with my box velcro'd to the dash (use contact cement if you do this, the normal stickum on the back of velcro won't life thru the summer), if I had it to do again, I'd get a remote unit, with the antenna behind the grille (my GTI has a plastic grill) and the switches and indicators installed inconspicuously down by the base of my stick shift, where it's invisible to cops or theives. I think you might as well go for that convenience, given that you're spending ~$250 already. Note that I love my Whistler, it's saved me a mess of money, but it won't save you from a strobe radar gun on an empty highway: [This happened to me, driving in Maine at night in September. Converstation below is quite close to accurate.] [Fleep!] Me: I'm in trouble. [Cop pulls me over.] Cop: Do you know how fast you were driving? Me: Nope. Cop: 87 mph. Me: Oh, I didn't know I was going that fast. Cop: Oh, I think you did. [What it's a good thing I didn't say: Me: No officer, I didn't know. My speedometer pins at 85.] Andy Tannenbaum Masscomp Inc Westford MA (617) 692-6200 x274