Aerial speeding patrols in OK

[corneileous]

I agree totally, when I bought/used one it was 30 years ago, that was shortly before the jammers became popular. The one I bought was used, and cost me $50 and a case of beer. So was it a reliable one? Very doubtful. I’m thoroughly convinced I could buy one now that works good. Thankfully I feel I have grown out on the hot rodding stage on my life. As I said before, I’ve been very lucky and I’m no saint. I do go over the speed limit from time to time, but it’s always staying with the flow of traffic, I never go over 2 mph above the posted.

Not me, man… LOL. I have a Hemi, and I have a very good sounding exhaust system so even at almost 45 years old, I still find it very difficult to be nice to the gas pedal… LOL. I like to drive fast and I like to get where I’m going. But on a more serious note, I still think Oklahoma is just way too strict on their speed limits.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[cdschoonie]

But on a more serious note, I still think Oklahoma is just way too strict on their speed limits.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

TOTALLY agree, I don’t understand why all state highways are not at least 70, and all Interstates/Turnpikes should be 75-80, like Texas and other states. When I was trucking over the road, Utah was 80 everywhere, and the construction zones, at least the ones I went through, were 70!

 

[HFS]

TOTALLY agree, I don’t understand why all state highways are not at least 70, and all Interstates/Turnpikes should be 75-80, like Texas and other states. When I was trucking over the road, Utah was 80 everywhere, and the construction zones, at least the ones I went through, were 70!

Higher speed limits in OK would be a real boon to tire stores, shock absorber manufacturers, etc.

 

[Snattlerake]

I was riding with a trooper one night and we stopped a speeder just north of Dover on US 81. As the trooper approached the car I saw him stop and crouch down reaching for his weapon. The trooper then proceeded cautiously toward the driver and then turned around and walked back to me standing in the ditch. The trooper was laughing and said upon his approach he saw the guy flailing around inside the cars screaming. He went further and said when he got closer he saw the guy had snatched his fuzzbuster off the dash and was beating the mess out of it screaming about how it had cost him three tickets this week.

Make that four.

 

[corneileous]

Higher speed limits in OK would be a real boon to tire stores, shock absorber manufacturers, etc.

That ain’t no joke.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[corneileous]

I was riding with a trooper one night and we stopped a speeder just north of Dover on US 81. As the trooper approached the car I saw him stop and crouch down reaching for his weapon. The trooper then proceeded cautiously toward the driver and then turned around and walked back to me standing in the ditch. The trooper was laughing and said upon his approach he saw the guy flailing around inside the cars screaming. He went further and said when he got closer he saw the guy had snatched his fuzzbuster off the dash and was beating the mess out of it screaming about how it had cost him three tickets this week.

Make that four.

Yeeeup but pretty much like the saying goes for when you see a nice sports car piled up in the ditch; you can’t blame the high-performance car for the low performance driver behind the wheel. I’m not sure if you ever heard about it or not, it made national news but just like with the guy up in Colorado that bought one of the very first dodge challenger hellcats…. not even an hour after he bought it, he piled it up in the ditch and totaled it.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[murphranch]

Anyone remember the myth of wrapping the ends of a fluorescent light bulb with aluminum foil and putting aluminum foil balls in your hub caps to make a radar jammer? I had a classmate back in the 80’s that was the most gullible person I knew. He had a huge shop fluorescent bulb with big aluminum balls on each end across the dash of his truck and proceeded to lose his license from too many tickets. After looking at his homemade device one highway patrolman even told him that he had the foil wrapped the wrong direction on the ends. He redid the ends and got another ticket the following week.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

[dennishoddy]

Except for when they use LIDAR, or laser. They can pinpoint very accurately the speed of every car that is traveling in that group.

But yeah, the law has developed a lot of tricks to thwart radar detectors but Radar detector companies have come up with a lot of tricks of their own as well. My Escort Max 360 and my Escort Redline EX can both pick up up to four alerts at one time and not only that but they also give you the frequency of what the alert is as well so if you really pay attention to whenever your radar detector goes off, even before you see the actual cop car, you can tell what it is before you even see it if it’s an OHP, or county sheriff or city police. It also makes the Ka band the priority to where if you’re picking up that god-awful crash warning system on these newer cars and all the sudden an OHP pops up shooting 33.4 MHz Ka band, it’ll immediately ignore the K band and go straight to that. And not only that, I have the app that I use with both of these radar detectors which tells me what other escort customers have picked up when I get close to that location which is really helpful if it’s up in the city and if someone has picked up a laser or even a Ka band alert.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

LIDAR is specific in pointing out the exact vehicle vs a scan of the area which is pretty much what K band does.
I’ve watched officers using the hand held device pointing and following an individual vehicle, not waving it around to see the mass of traffic.
Link to what LIDAR is capable of.

https://www.ratedradardetector.org/blog/police-lidar/
We run this and it’s getting outdated with new technology. It will still detect LIDAR just like the newer models because of the phenomenon of “scatter”.

Signals in this spectrum when hitting an object that reflects the signal back to the sending unit will also send signals all over the place to be picked up by detectors.
We need to upgrade.
I read once that the same companies that build speeding units for LEO also build the detectors.
What a money maker!

 

[Oklahomabassin]

Never used a detector. Been stopped a couple handfull of times. Very rare to get a ticket. They usually don't even pull someone over unless more than 10 over on the highway and interstate. I drive about 50,000 miles a year. More often than not I see the vehicle in back of a string of speeders getting pulled over. Probably because they are first that a LEO gets to.

Some of you must be real azzholes when getting pulled over to think Oklahoma is too strict on enforcement.

 

[TerryMiller]

Never used a detector. Been stopped a couple handfull of times. Very rare to get a ticket. They usually don't even pull someone over unless more than 10 over on the highway and interstate. I drive about 50,000 miles a year. More often than not I see the vehicle in back of a string of speeders getting pulled over. Probably because they are first that a LEO gets to.

Some of you must be real azzholes when getting pulled over to think Oklahoma is too strict on enforcement.

Same here...

...about 61 years of licensed driving and I think I have only gotten 2 speeding tickets in all that time. And, I regularly drive at 5 mph over the speed limit. Only once in my life have I ever been pulled over at 5 over, and that was in Nebraska last Fall. Even then, the highway patrolman only gave me a verbal warning. Plus, we had a good visit with him and a county sheriff's deputy that stopped to back him up.