Laser Mimic LM3: This is one of the few images we find. Laser Mimic was tested at SML and responded with 14% jamming efficiency against 3 of the most dominant laser guns used. Another company tested it and claims 100% jamming performance of the Laser Mimic. We go with SML results, as I watched the test and seen the data and calculated the results. Laser Tec Pro 20: Bob Thompson, Whistler International offers this product and the Laser Tec Pro 30. During the SML 2005 test, the Laser Tec Pro 20 did not test well, achieving 25% Laser jamming efficiency against 3 of the most dominant laser guns used. Kustom Pro Laser III is the most used laser gun used to detect vehicle speed. It is also one of the easiet laser guns to jam. A Digital Laser Cam used in Spain. The Blinder M20 Laser Jammer will shut it down. This is a Suburu STI installed with a Bel Pro RX75 remote radar detector.

There were a number of products tested at Speed Measurement Labs, 2005 including Cobra XRS 9700, Bel RX65, Escort 8500 X50, PNI, Attowave, GSG Technologies with the VF2 Photo Radar and Veil with their Veil Laser Stealth paint. Also tested was a number of laser jammer copies manufactured in Korea. We will review a variety of product performances below as tested by Speed Measurement Labs. We saw a variety of active laser jammers, copies made in South Korea. It is hard to remember them all. Leon Gruner of Blinder Extreme is using a Riegl Laser gun to the left to test the Mimic. We have a video camera behind him to video the test results of these laser jammers from Korea. Several of the laser jammer product names were Laser Mimic, Laser TEC and MegaJammer. Laser Mimic and Laser TEC appear identical. Bob Thompson of Florida, an International Whistler Radar Detector distributor, is offering the Laser TEC Pro 20 and Pro 30 laser jammers. While his web site offers the Laser Tec, at one point he refers to the Laser Mimic. This is a quote from Bob Thompson's WEB site: ["The Laser TEC PRO is the first jammer to be independently tested on video. Other products claim to jam laser, whereas the Laser Mimic actually has proven to on tape."] Thus Bob Thompson makes the connection between the Laser Mimic and the Laser Tec. That and the products are nearly identical is design. The Laser Mimic, is being offered by Scorpion Radar Jammers, Lance McQuistion of Thorton, CO. MegaJammer appears identical to the First Alert, a laser jammer sold in Europe by Snooper UK. MegaJammer is being offered by United Marketing, owned by Mike Moore of Astoria, New York. Both MegaJammer and First Alert are manufactured by E Sensor, South Korea. One may wonder if E Sensor is also producing the Laser Tec and Laser Mimic. Tiger Lily Products, Blinder USA and Blinder Denmark tested these products against the European Riegl Laser gun, LTI UltraLyte LR100 and LR200 (USA) laser guns, Stalker LZ1 (USA) laser gun, Laser Atlanta (USA) laser gun. Of these laser guns, the Laser Atlanta, Stalker LZ1 and LTI UltraLyte LR200 are considered the most difficult to jam; while Kustom Pro III and Riegl laser guns are the easiest laser guns to jam. Kustom Pro III has a greater number of laser guns used in the USA. Riegl and Laveg are used most frequently in Europe. Kustom Pro III and Stalker LZ1 are used most frequently in Asia. The Lidatek LE30 was tested. Using brute force, when the laser gun is aimed at the license plate or headlights from 1000 feet, the LE30 can jam any laser gun aiming at the front of the vehicle. But it has a 5-7 second jamming cycle, at which time it must shut off and cool down, or it would burn up the laser diode. In most cases the 5-7 seconds is sufficient to slow down, but sometimes that may not be the case. This could be a drawback. As the distance decreases below 500 feet, when a laser gun is aimed at the license plate, the LE30 installed on the plate will jam the laser gun; however, when the laser beam is moved to the headlights at about 500-450 feet, the LE30 on the license plate begins to encounter punch through problems. This can be resolved by adding a 2nd LE30 jammer module, but the LE30 costs about $499.95 and a 2nd unit raises the cost considerably. If you have two LE30s on the front of your vehicle, it is a superb system, and will jam to gun on the headlights and license plate, but it is expensive to do so and still has the limited 5 second jamming period before it shuts off to cool down. The LE30 is rated #2 in performance, tied with the Escort ZR3 Laser Jammer. We carry the ZR3, but not the LE30. Perhaps we will take a stronger look at the LE30. Test results show Lidatek and Escort ZR3 are #2, LP905 as #3 in performance. K40 may be tested later this year. Past SML test results did not show K40 Laser Defuser in the top two performers for laser jamming. RMR-C450 and RMR-C430 claim to jam laser, but SML test results show both units would not jam highway laser. The RMR Laser-Stik also failed jamming any laser, thus the RMR products hold last place in performance. The Mimic jammed the Kustom Pro III and Riegl laser guns on several occasions at 500 feet and 1000 feet, but nothing consistent. We videoed the tests with a digital recorder behind the Riegl Laser gun, and will get the video on our WEB site

(www.1stRadarDetectors.com) in the near future. The Mimic did not jam the Stalker LZ1, LTI nor Laser Atlanta; although it was detecting the laser beams from each of these guns and sending out a jamming signal. The retail price is around $349.95 from what I understand, but considering the jamming performance, one should consider what they are buying. The Laser TEC Pro 20 jammed the Kustom Pro III on several occasions at 500 feet and 1000 feet, but again, nothing consistent. It did not jam the Stalker LZ1, LTI nor Laser Atlanta; although it was evident the Mimic was detecting the laser beams from each of these guns and trying to jam. The jamming performance is poor, so again, you should consider what you are buying. The MegaJammer jammed nothing, but it did detect the laser guns. Nothing else needs to be said. The Veil Anti-Laser Paint was tested on the Viper and provided excellent passive protection against all laser guns. It has a punch through point at about 450-500 feet for dark colored cars and about 600-700 feet punch through for light colored cars. Veil Laser Paint requires a laser detection capability on the bumper. The standard windshield mounted radar detector does not detect laser in the grille with the exception of the Valentine One; which is best at detecting laser on the front bumper. The combined cost of the V1 and Veil would be about $480. Veil is the only passive product company that offers its product to SML for testing by Speed Measurement Labs. Unless you have good laser detection on the front grille and back bumper, then the driver would not know that laser was targeting their vehicle. Without superb laser detection, the driver would not know when to slow down. Veil would stop protecting a driver's speed at the punch through distance of 450 to 700 foot range, opening the driver up for a ticket. Cobra Radar Detectors are produced by BG Tech of Korea. The Cobra Radar Detectors, with the exception of the XRS 9700, did not appear to perform very well. The Bel RX65, Escort 8500 X50 products did quite well, as expected on all the tests. The Bel RX65 and the Escort 8500 X50 radar detectors are still the best in performance, but we still want to see RDD alerts to the drivers. The invisibility to RDD is wonderful, but the RX65 and Escort 8500 X50 need to alert to RDD, so the driver knows a Radar Detector Detector is searching the area. Given POP3 detection and RDD alerts, the RDD alert is far more valuable. A Q4000 radar detector from Australian Radar Detection Services, (ARDS) partially owned by Roy Zegar, was tested by Tiger Lily Products. The Q4000 offers a very minimal user interface display: Power on/off, one filter button and several LEDs for alerts. It did not prove useful for radar detection. Although alerting to K and Ka, it also alerted to nearly anything else during our test and along a 2800 mile trip. Way too many false noise alerts. ARDS also offers a modified Valentine One, which did prove to be 100% invisible to Spectre III radar detector detectors. Impressive! On the other hand maximum distance was not tested at the same time to see if the Spectre III invisibility improvements decreased the Ka detection distance, which is normally at 10 to 11 miles. If the antenna was tuned/modified to provide less Spectre noise, then it would also effect the detection sensitivity of Ka, and possibly K frequencies. But since distance was not tested on the modified Valentine One by Speed Measurement Labs, we were unable to give the ARDS product a full performance review. I give ARDS good credit for testing for Spectre III and passing, but would you also test the distance sensitivity of the modified V1 and get back to us? The distance is a measure of how sensitive a radar detector is at detecting a very weak radar signal coming from a “hidden radar trap over the other side of a hill or around a blind curve. If the modified V1 distance sensitivity has been sacrificed for Spectre III invisibility, you better be in bad need of the modified V1 with a cost of $1800 AUS.