User Manual

Advanced features of the BEE III

These modes are useful tools, but many officers have not been exposed to them so they require

more explanation. Please don’t tackle these until you have a few hours of practice using the BEE

III in the conventional modes. A detailed explanation of these more information on modes is

contained in the Operational concerns of the fastest and same direction mode section.

Fastest mode

When the BEE III is in any transmitting mode, fastest mode is available by pressing the fastest

key, which is located in the upper right hand corner of the remote control. This will cause the

middle display window to be labeled as FAST. The unit will remain in fastest mode until the

fastest button is pressed again or until a target speed is locked in.

The middle speed window will display the speed of the fastest target, while the normal target

window continues to display the strongest target. If the strongest target is the fastest target

within the range of the BEE III, the fastest window will be filled with underscores. The

Doppler audio and the mode window will continue to track the strongest target when the radar

is in fastest mode.

Locking a target while the BEE III is in fastest mode will lock the strongest target. The BEE

III will not allow the locking of the speed that is displayed in the fastest window.

In stationary mode, the radar only looks for faster targets in the selected direction, either Same

or Opposite. If the radar is being operated in both-direction stationary mode, the radar only

looks for faster targets moving the same direction as the strongest target is moving. It

therefore may not show the speed of the absolute fastest target in this case. If you observe a

faster target that you want to observe, it is recommended that you place the radar in directional

stationary mode and select the direction in which the particular vehicle is moving.

Same direction mode

The BEE III is unlike other same direction radars. It has Automatic Same Direction™

(ASD™), which allows it to sense the relative direction a target is moving in relation to the

patrol vehicle. Older, less versatile same direction radars cannot detect the relative direction

that the target vehicle is moving, so they require the officer to press a button to tell the radar if

the target vehicle is moving faster or slower than the patrol vehicle.

The BEE III incorporates an advanced, patented technology called Automatic Same Direction

™

(ASD

™

) processing. This allows the BEE III to know the absolute speed of a same direction

target without needing any input from the officer. In other words, same direction operation is

AUTOMATIC. This makes same direction operation simple, and will remove any questions in

court about the officer making the right decision on whether the target vehicle was moving

faster or slower than the patrol vehicle.

First, vehicles traveling the same or very near the same speed as patrol are not sensed by the

BEE III as targets. Since the speed differential is small, so is the Doppler shift. The radar

could not easily separate such targets from the reflections of stationary objects like the