Thursday, August 30, 2007

I was recently asked about whether or not a radar detector would pick up a sports radar gun. The customer stated that their Hot Wheels brand radargun would not set off their radar detector, and they wanted to know if the Bushnell Velocity would set it off or not.

All radar guns, including sports radar guns, can be picked up by a radar detector. It just depends on the model of radar detector vs. the model of radargun. Some radarguns, like the Sports Radar SR3600 uses the X band microwave frequencies. Other radar guns, like the Decatur Prospeed CR-1K use the K band frequencies. X band is very rarely used in Police radar guns now, and so many of the radar detectors may be phasing out the detection of X band frequencies. Radar detectors that detect X, K, and Ka band frequencies will be able to pick up all sports radar and police radar guns.

Ryan