While traveling up to South Dakota through New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming we encountered a total of eleven verified K and Ka hits, eight of which the Redline alerted to prior to the V1 and during one encounter they alerted simultaneously. Later that same afternoon a similar situation occurred when the V1 alerted a second prior to the Redline on short distance instant on Ka. The V1 alerted a second prior to the Redline alerting to this threat. There was an Az DPS officer parked in the medium using instant on K band. Outside of Williams Arizona the V1 scored one against the Redline. In each encounter the Redline alerted first of up to a distance of 100 feet prior to the Valentine One. Making my way north through Arizona and onto New Mexico, I encountered seven of the Redflex photo radar vans.
However, it appears since that they have fine tuned their system using lower powered emissions while also changing the polarity. When these Redflex vans first made their appearance last year in Arizona, you stood a fair chance of detecting them with a good radar detector. Perhaps the greatest threat to “lead footed” motorists like myself in Arizona are the Redflex photo radar vans that the state has contracted with for automated traffic enforcement. I loaded up my forty five foot Freightliner with my “Stealth Hog” and mounted the V1 on the right hand corner of the passenger windshield and the Redline on the left hand corner of the driver’s windshield to allow for maximum separation as to reduce the chances of any crossover interference. My next journey, Sturgis South Dakota for the 69th annual motorcycle rally.
If he would let me borrow his new V1 for the next few weeks I’d allow him to test out a new radar detector after its official release announcement, he agreed. I then headed back to the Garden State Parkway north, and then headed into New York and onto Connecticut.ĭuring my east coast trip the Redline gave me ample warning against K and Ka threats, but how would had these compared to the Valentine, I had to find out.Īfter returning home I called a “V1 Zombie” that lives in the Phoenix area and made him a deal.
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In each of these encounters the Redline began alerting several miles away and as I approached the signal gradually ramped up to full alert. While on the Turnpike I encountered two more New Jersey State Troopers that were operating X band. I continued north to Route 3 then onto the New Jersey Turnpike south.
I pulled into their parking lot and at the far end, at the full pumps sat an unoccupied trooper’s car. As I approached the state police barracks the Redline was at full alert. When the Redline first alerted two bars and three miles later increased to five bars, I felt confident that I had scored my first NJ State Trooper. My first encounter with X band was while I was northbound on the Parkway in Bloomfield NJ. He related that they would overnight me one of their first units as soon as one became available.Ī couple days prior to my trip to the east coast the UPS truck showed up with a spanking new Redline and I packed it up for my trip, thinking that this would be a great opportunity to review the Redline’s performance against the New Jersey State Troopers X band guns. I told him about a planned business trip that I had scheduled in a few weeks to the east coast and of my vacation to Sturgis SD. He related that Escort took used their knowledge and know how utilized in developing the M4 platform and integrated this into the Escort Redline radar detector to develop a dash mounted unit that would be unmatched by any other radar detector currently in production in both range and sensitivity while also being completely stealth to all radar detector detectors (RDDs). He confirmed that they were starting production of a new radar detector unit called the Redline which he compared to a high performance race car stripped of all the bells and whistles found on the Escort 9500ix.
Review of the Escort Redline Radar Detectorīut then in June of this year rumors began leaking out in the radar detector community about some new extreme long range radar detector that Escort was working on.Ī few days later I spoke with one of my contacts at Escort and pressed for more information. However many radar detector enthusiasts or “V1 Zombies” that they are sometimes referred to on the popular forum discounted Escort and Beltronics achievements as this technology had not been followed through with their M3 platform dash mounted radar detectors. Escort and Beltronics had taken over the long range arena several years ago, first with the introduction of the Bel STi-R and then with the Escort 9500ci both of which are remote mounted units and immune to all RDDs.