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 direction a target is moving. Older, less versatile same

direction radars cannot detect the 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