Zippity: Fake or not. I'm happy if it keeps the morons driving at a sensible speed when I am on the road.

And yes, I too have a radar detector in my car :)

Jadefuzy: if its k ban you should just turn k ban off. if its ka ban see what frequncy of ka ban it is.

Dionin: Off main subject here but I'm also noting more laser alerts on my Beltronic 550 especially on SH1 north shore... coincides with a well positioned traffic car 300-500m later so not likely a coincidence or rogue laser signal. Seems a progression from Ka band technology... similar to UK 7-8 years ago.

mentalinc:

Jadefuzy: if its k ban you should just turn k ban off. if its ka ban see what frequncy of ka ban it is.

Bad move. The speed camera vans now use K band.
If you have a "NZ Tuned" anything you should read the manual of your detector and turn K band back on.

Dionin: Off main subject here but I'm also noting more laser alerts on my Beltronic 550 especially on SH1 north shore... coincides with a well positioned traffic car 300-500m later so not likely a coincidence or rogue laser signal. Seems a progression from Ka band technology... similar to UK 7-8 years ago.

The road signs that go across the road and alert  of traffic situations ahead e,.g. lane 4 closed on bridge use laser. My V1 goes off near them everytime.

Jadefuzy:
Yes you are right there are the low powed K ban speed radars in the speed camera vans but because of there low power you can hardly get a good alert  distance out of it as showen on some of the videos on youtube. The real Question that you have you ask.  your self is it worth turning on k ban to get all the false alerts. or do i turn k ban on to get a small alert witch is hardly worth it when im coming up to a speed camera van ill leave it up to the radar detector users.

now back to the topic and any one tell me what Frequncy these device transmit on?

kiwitrc: Good work Bob now we know whats going on.

Interesting statement in that article, "It was revealed in July that police had begun removing radars from their fleet throughout the country."

Anyone know why they are removing radars?

timestyles: I'm sure that you could whip up a transmitting circuit for less than $20 under mass production. If ACC or the police want to put these on random cars, I'd happily take one.