Rocky Mountain Radar

When it comes to radar detectors, some brands rise above the rest—we’ve already covered some of them previously, like Stinger and Beltronics. But if you’re the kind who tends to bet on the underdog, then in this field, then the mention of Rocky Mountain Radar may urge you to learn more.

Even if you have long depended on radar detectors to keep you safe from speeding tickets, it is likely that you have never even heard of the brand before. Information on the Internet is scant on its background, and the few pages including our review on Rocky Mountain Radar do little for the company’s reputation.

You might also notice that it has been disparaged because its claims in the past have been proven unfounded. Does it deserve the bad attention often given to it? Well, we’ll tell you what we know and then you can judge.

For starters, the company is based in El Paso, Texas. It is young compared to its competitors, having only been established in 1989, which is one year short of three decades.

What it lacks in years it makes up for more than four decades of working on radar technology, but on the side of the authorities, or so it claims. Its founder, Michael Churchman, is said to have previously worked for the government.

The company is really small, with only a few employees on its roster. But that is inversely proportional to its big claim: of those who availed a radar detector from them, only 64 received tickets out of millions issued in the past 3 years.

It also makes the promise that if you happen to be apprehended within the first year of your purchase, Rocky Mountain Radar will shoulder the first fine you’ll receive: that’s ticket rebate.

Unlike most radar detectors on the market, Rocky Mountain Radar says that it is using ‘radar scrambling.’ It is considered by the team as an alternative to radar jamming, which might be easier in concept but is illegal in the United States.

How it functions is that it confuses the police radar speed detectors by giving back incorrect data. The detection of signals is also claimed to be topnotch.

Its flagship model, the Judge 2.0, is advertised to work the same way that the best radar detectors in the market would: the detection range can go as far as 5 miles, it can identify most signals, can filter false alarms because of its Traffic Rejection Sensor (TSR), and can detect threats early through its Early Warning Discriminator (EWD).

It also is undetectable against police radar and lasers and is cheaper than other top-of-the-line radar detectors.

The company’s history, however, is tainted. In the past, Rocky Mountain Radar’s first products, radar jammers, were tested publicly and were found not to work.

They were legal with a license from the Federal Communications Commission to boot, but that might be because what it emits is very insignificant. These were later banned.

Television networks also picked up the story, further tarnishing the brand’s reputation. A known figure in the radar detector community, the late Radar Roy, challenged Churchman publicly to prove that the latter’s line of products does not work.

Churchman declined, however, dismissing the challenge as unnecessary because he knows that his detectors work.

These may be important to you if you’re considering purchasing a Rocky Mountain Range item. And they might be enough reason for the brand’s unpopularity.

Still, it’s worth inspecting its range of products like the RMR MotoRaptor to see if they could deliver as promised, so you can make a sound decision coming from a well-rounded decision process.