[Val Walkinshaw]

+1 on Vortex
He is the gold standard for RD reviews.

Valentine has clear weak points when it comes to range.
Fantastic K band but without a lot of tweaking it falses really bad.

I've had the r7 with the international firmware
V1G2
R8

Sold the valentine and stuck with the R8.

Or course both of those are heavily complimented by their apps. Neither is as effective without. Learn to use the lockouts for BSMs.

Valentine uses JBV1
Uniden uses Highway Radar.

Both of those apps use the same plug in for crowd sourced alerts (wzsabre) as Waze so you get all the same alerts. No need to use Waze.