Any one using a Road Angel GPS unit ?  Was thinking of investing in one as radar detectors are illegal here and the new Stalcar radar detector detetcors used by the police pick them up so easily.

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Ian

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Nice one.  Getting worse here too. I don't have a radar detector but apparently the first guy has just been done for having a jammer.

Missus been done twice in a month for 35mph!! It has ceased to be about road safety now its just about money and reaching targets for performance related pay.

Agreed....they are revenue raising....our local newspapers have been suggesting the govt should change the tag on our number plates to Victoria: The place to be fined.

I might look into into mounting it in the centre console area near the lighter and run a separate DC line to it rather than dash mounting it.  I don't want the rozzers peering in to the car to see it. 

Ian

Guess its just as bad in Aus.

My missus is a criminal defence solicitor and sometimes gets in involved with road traffic work. The 'rozzers' told her that they have introduced a new system in the UK (under trial in certain areas - Blackburn being one) that reads every number plates passing by and instantly gives a head-up display stating whether the car is taxed or stolen amongst a number of other useful info relating to the owner. Its led to a massive number of convictions for having no tax, licence, insurance, MOT, driving whilst banned etc.. which has the courts completely bogged down. If they introduce it UK wide it will have a big impact. Personally I think its great because last thing I need is some twat running into my car without insurance!!! I would need to take a civil action which its never worth the time and money for.

I though about putting in some decent jamming equipment, some of the lads from work offered to help (one is ex UK Army, unit that jammed IRA bomb detinator frequencies and the other worked on the millimetric attack radar for the Longbow Apache). They told me I need to install an additional power source into the boot and layer some areas of the car with Mu metal (a weird type of meshed copper that lets radio energy in but not out to avoid detection).

...It would be a nice little 'project' to install - but I'd probably be breaking every clause in the radio communications act 7 times over.

Ian

Very interesting.... wonder if anyone has ever done this before?