Review for Bushnell Speedster II Radar Speed Gun for Sports & Cars, Compact Design 101900-EE

Author: C20 from Stockholm, Sweden on Nov 26, 2007
Pros:  The price, really nice and accurate
Cons:  No "target separation" (if hitting several targets at once)
Would recommend:  yes

C20 wrote:

This one worked better than I've expected - just as well as many other more expensive models. I tested the accurancy in a car at speeds 16-125 km/h (10-78 mph), by pointing out thru the windshield and compare the speed to my GPS-receiver (Magellan Explorist 100), wich can measure speed to +/- 0,2 km/h accurancy (in good signal conditions), the gun showed exactly the same speed RMS (if measuring in the direction of travel). The instantanous accurancy is better than +/- 1 km/h (0,6 mph) if you have a clear visibility of the target (if there are bushes, trees, poles, fences etc. between the target and the gun the accurancy is degraded a little). I havn't tested it on balls, but most cars can be measured at a 250-300 m (800-1000 ft) distance and trains or big trucks up to 400-500 m (1300-1600 ft) with a good reception of the reflected signal. The only bad thing is that it has no "target separation" - for example on a road with much traffic, it's hard to hit only one vehicle, because of the "spread out" of the radar beam(resulting in a flickering reading if they're going at diffent speeds). Some other more expensive can track only the fastest target for example. This is a really nice thing to use along with my GPS measurements - really nice to have the possibility to measure vehicles you're not in and this one works good in tunnels, narrow roads with dense tree cover or narrow city streets with tall buildings. I did a funny test 2 days ago on a road close to where I live, which has a rediculous (compared to the road) 30 km/h (19 mph) speedlimit. I measured 33 vehicles, 32 was speeding 40 km/h (25 mph) or more, 9 where doing 60 km/h (37 mph) or more, one car did 82 km/h (51 mph) - LOL.