V1 Moments

Today I was having a conversation with my 15-year-old son on the best products I ever bought. Right at the top of my list was my Valentine One. Please keep in mind that my son was born nine years after I bought the V1. Now, twenty-two years after purchase—seven vehicle and 22 Chicago winters parked … continued

I am a retired police officer, very experienced with radar, and let me tell all you folks, there is only one radar detector I would recommend–Valentine One. Back in my duty days we would position two unmarked vehicles a ways apart, both shooting radar. A detector user would go by the first car and, thinking … continued

I’ve had my V1 for 12 years and it’s all the more important to me now that I drive a rolling cop-magnet—a 2014 Mustang GT. But the story I want to tell centers on my wife. She was coming home from a trip to Augusta when she encountered a speed trap outside the tiny little … continued

I was driving in Thompson Ridge, NY, late on a winter night, testing a gifted Passport Max, when it lit up a warning that continued for miles and miles; I didn’t know where it was coming from or if it was real. All I knew was that Max was, uh, alarmed. Luckily, the Passport Max … continued

I’ve made hundreds of trips from Miami to Key West over the past 21 years and, like anywhere else, you’ll get X and K alerts from shopping centers and grocery stores, but Vaca Key has a special presentation. Most people call it Marathon Key, by the way, but Marathon is actually the name of the … continued

V1 went with me on my last trip to Europe. Just before midnight I was driving on one of the main streets in Vienna, capital of Austria, with V1 re-programmed for the European frequencies and mounted onto my BMW’s rearview mirror. Traffic was mild, and there was a sign indicating a reduced speed limit of … continued

My V-1 Moment goes on and on. I have a friend who is a highway patrol officer. While hanging out one day we were talking about radar and detectors. He informed me that he could catch anyone, radar detector or not. I took the challenge. We live in the same town, he knows where I … continued

I traded in my Passport 9500ix for the new Passport Max, so when the new Max malfunctioned and I had to send it back, I had nothing to fall back on. Escort said two weeks for replacement. So I decided to get a second detector, as a back-up and also to test against Max to … continued

I was driving from Chicago to Minneapolis–remember the moment like it was yesterday. I got a late start and was in the middle of nowhere around three in the morning. I was heading up a slight hill on the interstate into a bend to the right. About half way up the grade I came to … continued

I was in my supercharged Trailblazer SS, followed by my daughter and son-in-law in their Jeep SRT8, heading east on I80. We’d just crossed into Ohio from Indiana. Each of us has a detector attached to the bottom of our rearview mirror, an Escort 9500 for him, V1 for me. The women were talking between … continued