Valentine One V1 Gen2, Owner'S Manual

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Welcome to Full Coverage
Dear V1 Owner:
When an interest lasts for a year or two, that’s a hobby. When it goes on
more than half a lifetime, that’s an obsession.
I can’t help it. Designing black boxes to sniff out ever fainter radar and laser
signals is, to me, the most interesting game on the planet. This is a civilian
version of what the military calls Electronic Warfare Support Measures (ESM).
Think of it as cat-and-mouse out to ten decimal places.
The goal is always the same—Range Superiority.
At the beginning of the Valentine One Generation 2
™
project, I told my
engineers, “We want the best radar-finding engine this side of the military.”
In fact, we adapted a component from military CHIRP radars—used to find
fainter targets farther away with higher precision—a SAW Dispersive Delay
Line (SAW-D2L). For civilian users, V1 Gen2 is a breakthrough on range.
Since starting my own company back in the 1980s, we’ve always walked our
own path. We invented the Radar Locator and the Bogey Counter, two essen-
tial must-knows when sizing up radar threats.
We’re unique in another way, too. We don’t do annual model changes, and
we don’t offer an array of models to pick off every price point. Instead, we
offer only one model—the best detector we know how to build. And to keep
V1 Gen2 the best, we practice continuous improvement; that means every
performance enhancement the engineering department works up will be
available to you as a smartphone download.
Thanks for choosing us to be your radar-and-laser-detector company.
Sincerely,
Michael D. Valentine
President
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Mike Valentine: Electronics engineer,
inventor of the radar-locating detector,
over four decades making and selling
high-performance detectors.