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This a great radar detector but...... It picks up every alarm signal from a residence to a business. I find myself muting through out my drive. A positive: It will warn you of radars it was designed to pickup, though. For the price?> You can't go wrong. I feel more comfortable with it warning of every single alarm than without it. I'd buy it again. Hope this helps.

This unit was recommended as a no buy on technophile sites, but I bought it anyway, I don't speed excessivly, and despite knowing Cobra has been an industry follower rather than a leader for decades. Of course, I had to wait till I got out of Virginia to light it up; my wife plugged it in and it went through the startup sequence. Some people complain about this - I prefer to know it's working - lasts about one second, so get over it. Thirty seconds after power on it signaled a K/KA intercept and sure enough a cop was sitting perpendicular in the cross-over behind the trees not four hundred feet from signal. Later in the trip in South Carolina, 78 in a 70, got a short K/KA burst going into a long stretch of tree shrouded curve. A mile or so further along I drove up on a State Trooper getting out to write up a F-150 - I caught the reflection. In Florida it lit up every X-band speed reader in the construction zones around Tarpon Springs. It often Lit off on Emergency/Safety Vehicles around construction sites on I-95, indicating emergency vehicle emitters. One time on I-95 I drove right by a Trooper in the opposite South Bound lane outside his vehicle, Laser gun in hand, scanning approaching traffic and it didn't give a peep, I got lots of K/KA band alerts maybe they were false maybe not. You can't always be sure. So use the unit with a little common sense stick to 8 or 9 over and use it as a source of information. Over all, I was pretty pleased despite being ready for disappointment. This device is not immune to Spectre 2,3,and 4 RDD's. But what are the odds states where RD's are legal are going to go to the expense of purchasing $2000 dollar RDD's. What's the point. Even the pointy headed crowd in Virginia, the only state to outlaw RD's doesn't equip every trooper with the latest RDD or any RDD. They rely on catching you speeding and then catching you with the RD. But Virginia, as in so many other ways, has not yet entered the 20th century.

I've read lots of comments on the web about radar/laser detectors, and many people tell you anything under $300-$400 is a waste of time, I have to disagree! I didn't have $300-$400 kicking around at the time, so I went down to Target and bought this one. I've now taken it on several trips around the US through many states, seen 100's of Cops and every time they're doing a radar trap, this lets me know straight away, and has never once let me down.
It does pick up automatic doors pretty easily, I switch it off going through cities or put it in silent mode, not a safe place I would chose for high speed driving anyway.
The only one thing I dont like, interstate bridges often have emergency service's equipment attached that triggers the radar detector, which you soon get used to as a false warning when approaching bridges. But even still for $50, this has been a great purchase and I've never got a ticket on my long drives using it. :D

It's basic, which is what i wanted. Some ppl want one that goes off if they discover life on mars, with a little arrow pointing there, but i don't care. It's all black, no funky chrome so it blends well. it's pretty sensitive, which is not bad, but be ready to hear it go off around some stores.

The radar works as well as I had imagined. The alerts are somewhat annoying but they do keep you awake.