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Now the Mimic is also called the LaserTek!

Friday’s blog about the Mimic being “reborn” as a beamer hit a couple “hot” buttons as several European and Australian dealers flooded me with comments that were laced with profanity and veiled threats.
And another name for the Mimic was also provided along with a link from a US distributor that is not only dumping these on the international market as the “LaserTek Pro 20” but also is using a product image photo that I took of the product and posted on my original review of the mimic without my permission.
I was also had a couple private postings on RadarDetector.net from users to provide the history of the Mimic, so here goes:
Six years ago Bob Gibson was fired from Blinder USA during the time the first M-5 and M-10 units were produced. Bob had the original design of these units and figured that he would go into business himself mass producing his own laser jammer.
Bob took these M-5/M-10 plans and hooked up with a subsidiary of Attowave in Korea. Attowave is the same manufacture of Rocky Mountain Radar’s C-450 and the Stealth Ninja radar jammer that I’ve discussed in previous blogs.
As Bob was having thousands of these jammers produced in the sweatshops of Korea, he started calling US distributors. When Bob called me to ask if I was interested I told him that I would only carry the product after I did my own due diligence. Bob said that he would be pleased to send me a prototype; I told Bob that I wasn’t interested in any “juiced” units that I would make a “blind” purchase from one of his dealers after they came out on the retail market.
Chris Deaderick (JTW) was one of first to test Mimic’s prototypes. Chris was an ex Rocky Mountain Radar retailer who was attempting to change his colors and become an “independent tester” of laser jammer products.
Chris gave high marks for the Mimic on his website(s) and approached the Lance, the developer of the Phantom Laser Jammer, to become partners to sell the Mimic on Lance’s website.
I warned both Lance and Chris to use caution, as I suspected that after the product went into production the quality and performance could be questionable. Lance and Chris’s first order was a 100 Mimics, five of which I purchased for my own testing.
After receiving these units, I took them with me to the annual Radar Detector Shoot out in El Paso for an independent test. We installed a pair of Mimic’s on a white sub compact and the results were dismal. The Mimic had a success rate of only 14% in jamming at distances between 500 and 1000 feet.
We published our review on RadarBusters and within a few weeks several other customers did their own reviews which mirrored ours experiences and they posted their comments on RadarDetector.net.
Needless to say Mimic sales were dead in the water. So Bob Gibson and JTW regrouped and came out with several new names of the product and tried unsuccessfully to sell the product on other websites.
It seems now that Bob Thompson, who manages a  international sales distributorship, decided to buy into their scam and rebrand the Mimic as the LaserTek Pro 20 and to sell them overseas.
I’ve done business with Bob in years past and he seemed like a very honest businessman, so I don’t suspect that he is knowingly taking part in this fiasco and when contacted he took my “HiJacked” image off their website immediatelly.
The saga continues….

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Radar Roy’s First Solo!

After 46 hours of flight time I finally got to Solo in my Cessna 182T at Buckeye Airport!
A special thanks to my instructors at Greg Porter and Dave Evans at Buckeye Flight Experience.
Here is a video my flight today, hope you enjoy it as much as I did…

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Mimic is “Reborn” as a Beamer

The Mimic laser jammer first made headlines on RadarDetector.net, when dealers started touting it as the most powerful and affordable laser jammer.
I was suspicious of these claims and quickly identified the Korean manufacture and contacted his sources in the industry.

Being familiar with other laser jammers that this same Korean company was also manufacturing, such as the First Strike and the Laser Tech I knew from my previous testing that they had little or no effect in jamming police laser guns at all.
I purchased five Laser Mimics directly from a Washington State distributor that has been referred to as the “Goons” for their misleading testing and self promotion.
Two of these Laser Mimics were tested at the Speed Measurement Laboratories 2005 Radar Detector Shoot Out. A certified police officer used an LTI Ultralyte LR 200, a Kustom Pro Laser III and A Stalker LZ-1 laser gun to test this unit. The Laser Mimic performed very poorly and was only 14% effective at jamming all these guns.
As word quickly spread through the US radar detector and jammer marketplace of the Mimic’s poor performance, other dealers and distributors in the USA quickly dropped this product!

This week I was contacted by Stig who has a Norwegian blog that discussed speed countermeasure equipment and asked me if I was familiar with a new laser jammer that was being sold on European websites called the “Beamer”. From the links he provided I quickly identified the new Beamer as the old Mimic.
This morning Stig published a warning to the European marketplace on his bog: www.laservarsler.info/beamer_laserjammer.htm
Hopefully our efforts will help educate the consumer about these unscrupulous  merchants and products and put an end to these cheap and ineffective laser jammer knock offs.

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Motorcycle Radar Detectors – The Hard System

Last week I met up with Aaron Zimmerman of Legal Speeding and we shot a few videos on his motorcycle radar detection system that he calls the HARD (Helmet Assisted Radar Detector) System.
I’ve been using Aaron’s system for a number of years on my Harley

 
 

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Blinder M-25 Rev J15 Test

After Saturday’s “official” testing at SML, Leon the owner of Blinder USA and I met up so I could review Blinder’s new software and system now included in the J15 version of the Blinder M25/M45.
Leon explained that the J15 update included newer LED’s and software that were developed specifically for the newer police laser guns used in Europe.
Leon’s test car was a white Impala with no front license plate and the jammer heads were mounted on the front bumper. Runs 1 and 2 were center of mass, run 3 was the drivers side headlamp.

Run 1
Run 2
Run 3

Laser Atlanta
JTG
JTG
JTG

Laser Atlanta Stealth Mode
JTG
JTG
JTG

LTI 100LR
JTG
JTG
JTG

LTI 20/20 LR
JTG
JTG
JTG

Kustom UltraLite
JTG
JTG
JTG

Stalker
494/294
365/110
281/177

During this test I did see a significant improvement with the J15 revision then with earlier revisions that I’ve tested.
Hats off to Leon and Blinder International for following through with this improvement with their system!!!

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