assortment of chirps, tweets, clicks and bird whistles that defy interpretation.
     We found the K40's performance erratic at best; most of its Highway mode scores were first-rate but in City mode our Grand Am target car was clocked by X-band radar for nearly 1000 feet before we were notified of the threat. In the curve test it warned of X band radar at 610 feet and Ka band at 612 feet, well after the radar had locked in our speed. Worse, the rear antenna by design doesn't detect Ka-band radar at all.
     The SS3000SWL won the Chicken Little Award as the most talkative detector we've tested in the past decade. On the urban loop it squawked a total of nine false alarms, triple the number of the second-noisiest model. If we'd counted alerts of less than two seconds' duration--our threshold--that number would have tripled.
     To its credit, the K40 was the only unit other than the Escort that detected a laser