[1rudeboy]

Your Escort is still effective? No offense intended, do you travel in an area where the cops use old equipment? Just curious . . . I have an Escort sitting in a box in my garage. It’s been there for years.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It works well for me. Granted it picks up a lot of false positives from door openers and those stupid friggin' Audi and BMW obstruction detectors...but when it picks up a slowly increasing X or K signal and the meter shows a smooth move from zero to 8 or 9...there is always a cruiser at the point of origination.

So I'd have to say, yeah...it's effective. But I'm not near many big cities and the locals tend to use older stuff I guess.

Now pulse or instant-on radar...you don't have a chance. I've been nailed once by that. You can usually tell when it's coming...if there is a car ahead of you that gets "sprayed". The beeper or buzzer goes off and the meter pegs.