So the fam and I took the SUV up to Water World in Denver today. I talked the wife into using the Pro-78 on the way. We mounted it low on the center of the windshield and plugged it into the lighter.
Only one radar encounter on the way up and that was with a State Trooper headed the opposite direction running C/O. Don't know how far out we got the signal since I didn't see him, but we had about 5 seconds warning around a bend.
Oh, and there was the unmarked state patrol black Charger R/T that paced us the whole way.
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On the way home -- HOLY CRAP the smokies were out in FORCE! In the first twenty minutes of our southbound leg, we ran across two LEOs running MOVING C/O going the opposite direction, one of them a cycle cop. Pro-78 alerted with several seconds to respond each time, and warning would have been longer had there not been a 4-foot concrete barrier between the lanes.
THen the big encounter.
We got a 4-bar Ka hit that lasted for two bleep cycles, then died. I told the wife it was probably another RD. But as we rounded a bend about five seconds later, she said, "Cop!" and the Pro-78 went to full alert on Ka.
Sure enough, sitting on the right-hand side was an unmarked cruiser. The kicker -- it was shooting AWAY from us.
So we had a .3 mile, around-a-bend, FORWARD FACING alert. Plenty of time to slow down before he shot us in the fanny.
We ran into three more LEOs on the way home, too. One Statie shooting laser up an off-ramp (no alert -- too far away), one further down with a customer, and another on the OTHER side at the same point as that guy, also with a customer.