Here in VA it's also 10 degs and everything is snowed in and frozen up. Radar detectors are highly illegal here and the state troopers have the latest technology to "lock on" to the detectors signal and nail you. You'll loose your detector plus get a ticket for the detector, another for speeding and no telling what else he'll find like dirt on your tags to site you for. It generally makes for a bad day. The best way to wire them for use in VA I've seen is through an old fashioned, floor mounted dimmer switch. The key is to click it on and scan the road ahead but not long enough for him to get a "lock" on you. Works pretty well I'm told.

joey