Sep 17, 2005 3:13:40 PM
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Carlos from Spain
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Re: Radar detectors
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However three states have enacted laws banning the ownership, sale and use of laser jammers they are Minnesota (Minnesota Statutes 2002, 169.14) California (Sec. 1, Ch 493.28150, effective January 1999) and Utah (C. 41-6-52.7, 1998)
do a lot of road trips through California and Utah .... does this mean you must turn off the laser jammers in these states .. wonder if they can really detect you using one .
The SR7+ Escort system uses laser shifters, not laser jammers. I'm not sure how to explain this correctly, but the "laser beam" is governed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), not by law enforcement agencies. Therefore, it isn't illegal to shift the lasers, but don't know for sure about jamming them. I know it's illegal to jam radar though.
JP, they are exactly the same thing. The Shifters are just the name Escort has given them but they are jammers, and work exactly like any pother jammer on the market, Like the Blinders for example, both use infrared LEDs to produce the 904nm wavelenth infrared pulse back to the laser gun and jam it. The Lidatek for example instead, uses a Gallium Arsenide laser diode as its source for emiting the pulse, thats why its transponders are so small, because it only needs one diode while the Escort o Blinders need a row of LEDs with are weaker. But they all work in the same manner. In fact, the Escort Laser Shifter is exactly the same product as the Bel Laser Pro system, Bel and Escort are the same company know, the difference is that the Escort Shifters are made to plug to a Escort SR-7 and the Bel Laser Pro can plug to a Bel RX-75 for example.
It is perfectly legal to emit this infrared light, like I mentioned above, your TV remote works the same way but much weaker (point your TV remote to your car and the jammer should go off thinking its a lidar gun). But what its not legal in some states and countries is to use it to intefere with polise LIDAR, and this outlaws laser jammer devices, the fine should be the same as using a radar detector.
So if laser jammers are ilegal were you live, the Escort Shifter jammers are ilegal too. In fact some newer police LIDAR guns will throw a "jamming" message on the gun's display when they detect that a car is sending a laser pulse from a jammer back to the gun. And the LEO will know he is being jammed and that you have a jammer. But this depends on the gun and the jammers, some guns just throw an error code that is comon with other causes of malfunction, some will show the specific jamming message, some jammers throw few or no codes or jamming messages at all, some throw more. So its a combination of the jammer and the gun for this to happen. If your jammer goes off, I suggest you turn it off inmediately as soon as you have lowered yous speed to legal limits (which should be in less tha 5 seconds) so a not to create suspition by the LOA that he is being jam, that way he is able to get after a couple of seconds (after you have slowed down) and less likely to not supect jamming and blame it on anyother factor or erros that guns have.
. Carlos, how are the Lidateks treating you? If I recall correctly you bought the dual setup, right? Also, which detector are you using?
Actually we have our own forum here in Spain of which I'm one of the three main moderators and creators 
but Radar Roy's is good too, though more american radar focused. I have done a master's degree in traffic speed enforcement over these years in order for my 911 not make me loose my license! 
. If you need a laser jammer for those camera partnerships, the Target LT-400 or the Lidatek LE-30 would both be a great choice.
