Thanks for all the links to the various sites. Everyone seems to love the Valentine but the test report that Skalie posted seemed to favor the Bel980 and the Escort 8500. Both are just out of my price range (so that definitely disqualifies the Valentine) so does anyone here have any experience with cheaper more basic models? If Escort makes the best higher end model, does that mean that a lot of the features that matter are in their cheaper ones? Thanks

Alex

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