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Radar detector mount options?

I've got a tall sitting height. I am very happy with my Blendmount for my V1G2. (Regardless of which mounting option you go with, I -highly- recommend the free JBV1 app. It's free, but I donate to Johnny Boy, the developer, every year.)
 
RHO said:
The police radar is most likely tested for that location it is sending out the signal, they normally have one front and back the radar unit is a receiver, the higher up the better radar bounces all over , lasers do not once you are locked on by a laser it is over, the radar you can pick it up and start slowing down from the signal bounced back, But I had the best unit made at one time and got caught by a air plane, 😂
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There are smartphone apps nowadays that will connect to your radar detector and also use the GPS in your phone and monitor flight data and will actually tell you if there is a police plane/copter in the air near you...
 
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c3k said:
I've got a tall sitting height. I am very happy with my Blendmount for my V1G2. (Regardless of which mounting option you go with, I -highly- recommend the free JBV1 app. It's free, but I donate to Johnny Boy, the developer, every year.)
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I wish I could run JBV1. But, I had an Android phone for years - until Google seriously screwed me over. I switched to an iPhone and I won't go back to running Android. Apple is bad, but Google is far worse.

And I have no interest in having two phones and having to monitor them both for different things while I'm driving.

SpectreNav, for iPhone, is in Beta right now, but it is already REALLY good. Not as feature-rich as JBV1, but seems to be way more than good enough for what I really want.
 
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I think I've settled on my (more-or-less) final answer.

Up high, with a Gen5DIY wiring harness for power.

www.gen5diy.com

19-26 Ram Radar Detector Harness

This harness is for installing your radar detector into your 2019-2026 Ram. This harness saves you from splicing and/or entering pins into your trucks wiring harness. This plug and play harness connects inline at the rear view mirror and allows you to connect your radar detector to either your...
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StuartV said:
I think I've settled on my (more-or-less) final answer.

Up high, with a Gen5DIY wiring harness for power.

www.gen5diy.com

19-26 Ram Radar Detector Harness

This harness is for installing your radar detector into your 2019-2026 Ram. This harness saves you from splicing and/or entering pins into your trucks wiring harness. This plug and play harness connects inline at the rear view mirror and allows you to connect your radar detector to either your...
www.gen5diy.com www.gen5diy.com

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I like it!

One thought: pull that mirror cover off and dremel a small hole for the V1 wire. Make it a half-circle, right where it is against the glass. FWIW.
 
back in the 80's they had a unit called fox and the REC ant went in the grill and then you ran the connection into your car and the unit could be mounted under the dash , back when they only had the K AND X band worked pretty good , you can see some old units on ebay pretty funny ,
 
RHO said:
back in the 80's they had a unit called fox and the REC ant went in the grill and then you ran the connection into your car and the unit could be mounted under the dash , back when they only had the K AND X band worked pretty good , you can see some old units on ebay pretty funny ,
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Now, I could just put the whole Valentine 1 in a weatherproof enclosure with a clear front and put it in the grill, and then use my phone as the remote display. :)

Which is pretty much what I am doing with it on my motorcycle. Stick it inside my tankbag where nobody, including me, can see it. Phone up on my handlebars to show me what's going on.
 
vincentw56 said:
That'd wouldn't work for me, I need to be able to use my visor. I use it almost every morning when going into work. But that does look nice.
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My visor still works just fine. It's in front of the visor and up high...

I can't see the detector when the visor is flipped down, but I can hear it and my phone (running SpectreNav) shows me the same info that the detector displays.
 
securityguy said:
Blendmount
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See that light pole in the second pic? The one you can only see a bit of between the rear view mirror and the dash?

Yeah, I don't want half my view of that blocked by a radar detector hanging there.

Where it is does not block my view of anything I need to see. I can still use my sun visor just fine.

And the mount cost $10 instead of $120.
 
Anyone use the concealed display for the V1? Having a hard time finding the perfect spot for it.
 
Phone on Course Motorsports MagSafe Qi2 wireless charging mount.

Running SpectreNav (for iPhone).

RD is mounted up high and would be hidden by flipping my sun visor forward. The app on my phone tells me everything that I would get from seeing the RD display.

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StuartV said:
Phone on Course Motorsports MagSafe Qi2 wireless charging mount.

Running SpectreNav (for iPhone).

RD is mounted up high and would be hidden by flipping my sun visor forward. The app on my phone tells me everything that I would get from seeing the RD display.

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How did you install this mount with the 14" head unit? I removed two top screws, but the head unit won't move. I had no issues with the 12" head unit.
 
abbthe1 said:
How did you install this mount with the 14" head unit? I removed two top screws, but the head unit won't move. I had no issues with the 12" head unit.
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Same way their video shows for the 12" unit. Remove the 2 screws and give it a sharp tug at the top of the unit.
 
Here's my V1 mount. It sits on a base made from wood and covered in black leather. Uses the plug for power.
 

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I've had radar detectors in my vehicles for about 20 years now. In my experience, suction cups will fail at some point. I've used the Blend Mount in a previous vehicle, but with my height and the geometry of the windshield and placement of the rearview mirror it seemed like under the mirror mounting would just kind of be floating out in space and obstruct my view below the mirror unnecessarily. On other vehicles where the rearview mirror is closer to the windshield, the Blend Mount is a great option.

When I got my Ram, I mounted a Uniden R3 similarly to how you mounted your V1.
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I don't use my visor much, but I can lower it past vertical before it touches the R3. I also got one of those adhesive mounts for it and it has sat there perfectly out of the way but still in reach for over six years now. Easy for me for reach up and mute but never obstructed the view.

I'm an electrical engineer, but I don't work in RF so this general advice is worth what you paid for it. Not targeted at you specifically OP, but just my contribution to the body of knowledge in this thread. I run my detector with only K and Ka bands active. I disabled Laser due to the fundamental difference of how LIDAR differs from radar. If you receive a Laser alert, the vast majority of times it is either a false positive or you have been specifically targeted by a speed enforcement officer. By the time you are alerted, your speed has been measured, and the cop has already decided if they're going to stop you or not. To me, this makes laser alerting generally useless.

In regards to the debate on high vs. low positioning, it doesn't matter in any practical sense. The way radio waves propagate through space on the scale of hundreds or thousands of feet is impacted much more by terrain than having a detector placed inches higher or lower. The fact of the matter is high quality RDs can detect the radio signal broadcast by a cop's radar system well beyond the range of what the cop would use to specifically target your vehicle.

If you have line of sight to the cop, you will detect the radar signal well in advance of when the cop would try to capture your speed. If you don't have LOS, you will almost certainly detect the radar signal before the cop is in sight and can target you. They're not measuring your speed from around an obstructed corner or over a hill, but you will still pick up their radar before they see you. Placing the detector to optimize detection is pointless. You may get some theoretical gain in detection, but a bump from 2 miles to 2.1 miles doesn't mean anything if the cop isn't going to try to get your speed until you're within a half mile (these are made up numbers).

Short story long, if a cop has their radar on, it is broadcasting radio waves that your RD will pick up well in advance of when the cop would actually capture your speed regardless of visibility or terrain or any other circumstance. If the cop didn't have their radar on until you give them a reason to...well you get to learn why they're called radar detectors and not cop detectors :)
 
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