Former Cop Offers $50,000 For Radar Jammer That Works

“Radar Roy” leads crusade to stop misleading claims
From Yahoo News!
Wickenburg, AZ — The ads say the radar jammer keeps police radar from detecting your automobile.  For the price of the jammer, you can drive as fast as you want and never get a speeding ticket.
That’s what the ad claims, but Radar Roy disagrees.  And the nationally known radar authority is offering $50,000 to anyone who can produce a passive jammer that really works. “Radar jammers are not effective against traffic radar.  They’re also illegal, ” Roy says.  It is a federal felony to jam, or attempt to jam, police radar guns.
Repeated tests conducted by police departments nationwide have shown radar jammers are ineffective.  Yet jamming devices continue to proliferate.  “We even saw the Radio Shack chain start selling the RMR jammer recently and some states are investigating other sellers,” Roy said.
Radar Roy is Arizona’s Roy Reyer, a retired cop and sheriff who has almost 30 years experience in the traffic industry.  His site, http://www.RadarJammer.com is a top information source for traffic radar jammers.
For years Roy offered a $5,000 reward to anyone who could show a radar jammer that worked. After getting no takers, Roy recently increased the reward to $50,000.  “I’m confident I’ll never get a taker. And that’s the point.  These jammers are a fraud committed on the public and people continue to buy them,” Roy said.
Roy recently challenged the owner of the leading manufacture of jamming devices, Michael Churchman of Rocky Mountain Radar. Roy says he was turned down and told Churchman had nothing to prove, his products work.  That was when Roy increased the reward.
Fraudulent radar jammers have been prominently reported by major TV news shows like 20/20, Extra, American Journal, and a host of major market TV news programs.  Radar Roy has appeared as the featured expert on several of these news reports.
Radar Roy also has a site that reviews and sells effective and legal radar detectors.  “These days radar detectors not only warn drivers of radar ahead, they tell the driver how fast they should be driving and how much they need to slow down.  Unlike jammers, radar detectors are an effective way to promote safe driving,” Roy said.
Contact: Radar Roy
928-684-3974
Contact online at http://www.radarjammer.com/contact-us

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Cities Use Radar To Line Their Pockets With YOUR Money

Increasingly, cities in the US and Canada are using photo radar and red light cameras to catch speeders.  While you might think this is a good thing, cities often put the cameras in tricky locations where the speed limit suddenly drops unexpectedly.
You may get a ticket and pay a big fine when you had no intention of speeding and didn’t know you were over the limit at the time.
For example, there is a heavily traveled location in my area where the speed limit suddenly drops from 65 miles per hour to 35 mph.  The city has cameras stationed there and nabs speeders one after another all day long.
This is no isolated occurrence.  Municipalities all over North America have discovered this kind of “speed trap” is a HUGE money-maker.  Normally a camera company is hired to set up a detection location, analyze the photos, and sends out threatening citations for the city.  The city pulls in big revenue with very little expense.
What can you do about it?  Plenty.  New photo radar detection units are staying well ahead of the situation.  One just-released speed camera and red light camera alert system uses GPS to locate cameras far ahead of you.  The tiny unit features a LED display and a voice warning telling you a camera is coming up.  It also tells you what speed you’re SUPPOSED to be driving, and what speed you ARE driving.
With traffic tickets and time lost fighting them often amounting to hundreds of dollars, the affordable detection unit quickly pays for itself.
But isn’t this helping people to get away with driving dangerously high speeds?  Research shows these types of advanced detectors do two things:
1.  These units encourage people to drive the speed limit.  Often people speed because they don’t know what the speed limit is or aren’t consciously aware of how fast they are driving.  The unit corrects that.
2.  Radar and camera detection units allow people to drive faster when conditions safely allow.
This last point is one most consumers aren’t aware of.  Experts have long agreed you can safely drive somewhat faster than the speed limit without creating a danger to yourself and others.
Some states and communities take this into consideration, only handing out tickets when your speed is well over the posted limit.  But many other municipalities use a low speed limit as a license to make mounds of money, liberally handing out tickets to as many as possible.
What can you do if you wind up in court after being nabbed by a speed camera?  Since these cameras aren’t being monitored by a police officer, you can point out the various ways the system could be dishing up faulty information.  If you can shed doubt on the validity of the camera’s report, your ticket could be dismissed.  See my site for a full tutorial on how this works.
Safe driving is important, but it’s also important for you to avoid getting tickets.  If this makes sense for your driving, check out the wide range of photo radar detectors available.

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Bounty Raised to $50,000.00!

Sometimes you just couldn’t ask for a better encounter, that was the case at this years SEMA show…..
Last year when I issued my $5000.00 challenge to Rual, the head engineer at RMR, while tv cameras were rolling, the RMR staff were a little gun shy at the CES show, held just a few months later. When I was spotted near their booth at CES in January, CEO and President Mike Churchman would quickly duck under the display leaving his staff to handle any questions.
So at this years SEMA, Mr. Churchman manned a booth for a new company that he just formed, KAT radar detectors and he never went close to the RMR booth.
On November 2nd I just finished off a great dinner at the top of the Stratosphere restaurant and was meeting with a few associates at a lounge on the casino floor. Don, who is the business rep for Cheetah USA nudged me and pointed to the bar. Standing there was my nemesis in the speed counter measure industry, Michael Churchman.
Mr. Churchman is the founder and CEO of Rocky Mountain Radar, the main retailer of those radar scrambler devices you hear blabbed all over the radio and e-mailed to you in junk e-mails. I get countless phone calls and e-mails each day regarding these devices from customers that found out the hard way, that these devices just don’t work.
In 1998, when I started in this industry, I offered my first $5,000 challenge to anyone that could show me one of these products that worked.
Now I had my chance to personally offer my challenge to the huckster himself!
After getting a glass of wine at the bar, Mr. Churchman walked directly toward me and my table. As he passed I said “Hi Mike”. At first he seemed surprised that someone would call out his name at a bar, but as he made eye contact the surprise seemly turned to shock.
I invited Mike to sit down and introduced him to other attendees at the table and made small talk. After a few minutes I then dropped the question that I have been waiting to ask Mike for over 8 years, why he wouldn’t take me up on my $5000.00 challenge.
He responded that my test was rigged and that it had to be performed by Carl Fors at Speed Measurement Laboratories. I responded that was not the case, that Carl Fors had no involvement in his challenge and that I would even let him hold the radar and laser guns, that all I asked that there would be an impartial party involved to judge the test.
At first Mike seemed taken aback and replied “Let me think about this” but then quickly responded, I don’t have anything to prove to you, just to my customers and they already know my product works, so no, your $5000.00 means nothing to me.
I then offered to raise the challenge to $50,000.00 and Mr. Churchman stated “I don’t care if you make it five million dollars” I have nothing to gain. I then responded by saying that potential customers would have something to gain, knowing that a product actually worked as advertised and that I would get off his back in seeing for the first time, an actual product that worked.
Mr. Churchman related that my challenge had no effect on his operation, other then perhaps losing a sale here and there. Even letters that I had written to DBL and Cabellas about him selling illegal jammers had no effect.
I then asked if I had no effect, why would he dispute my video right on the home page of his website. Mr. Churchman related that my video was all rigged and that you could tell that by looking at the lights on the detector, they were not on. Mike related that he had since removed my name from his homepage, and that I was just a footnote now, buried on the site.
Mr. Churchman was also asked why his products were removed from the Radio Shack stores and he related my actions had no effect what so ever, that his detectors were outselling the Radio Shack brand and only had a 2% return rate.
Since I personally raised the challenge to $50,000.00 to Michael Churchman, I have decided to let that offer stand. Here are the details if ANYONE can show me a passive radar jammer that works in scrambling the speed of a vehicle so equipped with such a device.

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SEMA 2006 Observations…

The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) is the premier automotive trade event in the world. Held each year in Las Vegas, the event provides seminars, product demonstrations, special events and more. As I am involved in the speed counter measurement industry, it is a great opportunity for me, to network with others in the same industry.
This year we met with manufactures and reps from Escort, Beltronics, Cheetah, Blinder, RAM, Whistler, GSG Technologies, KAT (Kick Ass Technologies) and even Rocky Mountain Radar.
Our first stop was at Blinder, where we met with the CEO of Blinder International Torbin Anderson and Leon Gruner of Blinder USA. One pressing question we had involved the recent laser jammers that have been selling overseas that Blinder a ledges infringe on their US patent. Torbin explained that they are actively enforcing their patent here in the USA and if they become aware of any retailer within the US that sells and/or promotes these jammers, that they will take the proper legal steps in not only shutting the merchant down, but also seizing the merchandise and filing for restitution. Blinder International was just successful in obtaining the patent for their product design in South Africa and are also active in obtaining other patents in other countries.
Torbin also explained that Blinder is also in the final stages of development of a new parking sensor product, that is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2007.
Blinder also hinted to watch for information on new product releases within the next few weeks regarding their line of laser jammers.
Next stop was with the Whistler Group, where we got to see some new detectors that will be coming to the market soon. Two new cordless models that have spun off their popular 1788 model are the XTR 185 and the XTR 190. The XTR185 has a new feature in that it is the first “solar enhanced” radar detector. The top of the XTR185 has a solar panel,  that will extend the lifetime of a set of batteries several hours, if the detector is left mounted in the windshield.
Although Escort did not have an “official” presence at this years show, company representatives were present at the Beltronics booth. They were all very tight lipped about any new devices coming to market, and would not confirm rumors that we had heard of a new Escort model that would debut at the January CES show. However we did learn that their SR7 would be paired with an improved laser jamming device, but that the RX75 would not be sold with any active laser countermeasure device.
I then had lunch with Speed Cheetah and was blown away by the interface devices that they plan on offering the first quarter of 2007. The first was a helmet display module that had six different LED lights and an audio output. There was one LED light for each radar band and laser band, with the other two LED lights that would interface with either laser jammers and/or GPS devices.
They then had a clip on rear view mirror that had a built in GPS based safety camera alert system with the interface for remote mounted radar detectors and laser jammers.
Each of these interface devices will interconnect with any high end detector from Bel, Escort, Valentine or any laser jammer from Blinder, Lidatek or Drive Smart.
GSG Technologies was next on our list, and we learned that they had completely redesigned their VF Photo Jammers. Their product successfully passed the testing at the 2005 Speed Measurement Laboratories test of successfully blocking the photo of safety camera devices. However many of the cameras in the Scottsdale Arizona now use the Redflex Traffic Systems camera. Because this system uses a double flash the VF Photo Jammer could not recycle in time and block their photos. They explained that their new design allows them to block these cameras and we will be arranging a retest with the Scottsdale cameras in the near future.
Perhaps our biggest surprise was seeing CEO and founder of Rocky Mountain Radar Michael Churchman, sitting in front of another display, KAT Inc.
We learned (and later confirmed) that Michael Churchman founded his new company, Kick Ass Technologies, because of all the pressure Rocky Mountain Radar has been under involving the sales of radar scramblers. Mr. Churchman related that by removing the radar scrambler function from the KAT line of detectors he could then get his products into the Auto Zone type of stores more easily.
Although he may had removed the scrambler from his KAT line, he still used outrageous marketing claims to unsuspecting customers. These are just a sample of some of his claims to attendees at his booth:
1:  That his KAT detector can detect and jam any laser gun up to two miles away.
2:  That he purposely reduced the overall range of his radar detectors to only 2 miles ahead, because if you picked up any further away (like a Bel or Escort will) you may feel that it was a false alert.
3:  He was kicked out of Radio Shack because his products were outselling the Radio Shack detectors, and Radio Shack was not making any money on their product line.
4:  That his radar detectors were immune to the new Spectre IV and that they were now designing a new Spectre in Australia just so they could detect his detectors
On Thursday night during the SEMA show, I spotted Mike at a Las Vegas lounge at the Stratosphere casino and invite him to sit down with me. Our (video taped) conversation about his products and my $5000.00 challenge will follow in a new post..

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