Hey DJ, do you know if there are regular equipment check or calibration requirements that have to be logged? In Missouri I think there used to have to be such logs maintained on the equipment but seem to remember a few years ago about the log / service /calibration requirement either being done away or just no longer being publicly accessible.
Don, I can't speak for every state... In Illinois, we are pretty much on our honor with respect to calibration checks. We keep tuning forks, 2 - one "35mph", and one "55mph", in the vehicles,
and some devices can test themselves. You hit that tuning fork on the spotlight, hold it in front of the device and if it reads what the fork says you're legal. There's no real mandated documentation, although I'm certain some more progressive departments keep some. As long as you can testify that you have "recently" checked the device for accuracy, you're good. I have seen the radar read "53" or "54" when a "55" fork is presented to it. Again, they error in your favor. That's what astounds me about the CA mentality. It's not going to read "80" if you're doing "65". Plus, the equipment has come so far that errors are very few and far between. I
can imagine that the MO. logs may have been done away with (again, we never had any) once the public found that radar wasn't some form of voodoo or witchcraft. Once it was generally accepted, the need for the documentation may have gone away... and maybe they just aren't publicly accessable in MO... In IL we are not required to show you the radar. That one, even I disagree with... but I don't make the law... [smiley=policeman.gif]