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There is a detector that uses GPS to allow you to tell it when you are picking up a false signal. It will then not alarm in that location when it picks up the false signal again. To me that would be great. I got rid of my detector years ago becuase of the endless false alarms from automatic door openers. Does anyone know what brand that is?
There is a detector that uses GPS to allow you to tell it when you are picking up a false signal. It will then not alarm in that location when it picks up the false signal again. To me that would be great. I got rid of my detector years ago becuase of the endless false alarms from automatic door openers. Does anyone know what brand that is?
Escort 9500. I think there's another exactly like it (same circuitry and everything) but with a different brand name on it. I forget which.
Not saying this can substitute for a radar... but I started to use trapster (add a .com to the end of that for the site) and it works great. Its basically software that you load onto your GPS enabled phone, or your garmin/tom tom. And it basically pinpoints where speedtraps are based on member inputs.
The downside is that it obviously only tells you where they normally are... but that doesn't mean their there at that very moment. But you can set the threshold so it'll only alert you based on how credible the reports are.
The upside is that it'll also tell you where redlight cameras and speed cameras are. Not that you should ever run red lights... but the speed cameras can be a pain (not to mention 100% a revenue generator).
This site Radar Detector Reviews and Tests - Comparisons and Ratings
Discusses the various detectors and seems to indicate that the V-1 is the best option. They gave it a 9 for false alarm rejection while the 9500 got a 10, but almost everything else is rated better with the V-1.
Do you V-1 owners get a lot of false alarms? I used to get so many that the detector was useless.
The V-1 also does not have voice notification. Is that somehting that i should care about?
Do all of these run on batteries? I do nto have any more room for lighter plugs and I already have a splitter. (Cell phone charger, GPS charger, sometimes a computer power source as well).
V1 does not run on batteries, as this substantially reduces range. As Mike Valentine says in V1's marketing sctik, "My detector only comes with a cord because I don't know how to protect you without one. Neither does anyone else."
If you have any electrical know-how, you could always hard-wire it to the car's electrical system.
Do you V-1 owners get a lot of false alarms? I used to get so many that the detector was useless.
It picks up a lot of false alarms on default A mode.
When you switch it to little-L mode it silences most X band hits, and very weak K band noise. However, it has always sounded off on police K band, a mile or two down the road.
It also has a big-L mode which completely filters out what little-L silences.
I never use big-L as I'm not sure I trust its logic. However there are guys I work with who say that's all they use and they never have a problem. I use little-L and it works well for both city and open road. You can almost always tell when false alarms go off by reading the behavior of the arrows and the signal strength.
There's also a way you can program your V1 to completely block out X band (or K, Ka, L if you really want to). The info is not in the manual, but buried in their website somewhere. You could do that + little-L mode and filter out the vast majority of false alarms. Though knowing my luck, I'd probably get nailed by the po-po using an old X band radar for kicks.
What some people don't realize is that the detector detects *any* radar signal in the band it's monitoring, you get the door opener at the grocery store, etc. These are not "false", but they are not cops either. Actually I generally use the "small L" logic setting, the buildup coming up on door openers etc. is generally different than a cop.
*if* a cop is using instant-on on a deserted road, the detector does not help, but such encounters are rare. They generally are set up in higher-traffic areas so as to generate revenue.
This morning I saw the usual Ford Expedition "unmarked" car coming down my favorite backroad, I'll swear this guy is there every Wednesday, non-instant on radar blaring, my V-1 picked him up about a mile away.
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