New rx65

[frog]

I am new to detectors, 1 month ago wife bought me a radio shack. I thought it worked good till I picked up a bel 925. Today my just recieved rx65 pro showed me 2 city cops perpindicular to the road gunning a school zone(I just used it as a test, I dont blast school zones) The unit seemed to p/u 2 sec quicker than the 925, both picking up at approx. 1000 ft. My city uses weak k/a, I have only gotten full blast indications as I pass them on the road if they are facing me. I will continue to review, and post my findings as I acclimate to the unit. So far I am pleased, although I will need more time, and experienc to evaluate ranging, and falsing, and pop modes. Preliminary findings are as follows.

Pro's
great fit. and finish
window bracket better than 925
smart plug is great

Con's
volume is not loud enough!

the diff between radio shack, and 925 was enormous.
I dont expect the diff. between 925, and rx65 to be that great, but I may be wrong.

[cavili]

Honestly speaking, this is good detector and it does falses oaccassionally but depend on settings. Other then this I am very happy with it.

[compu44]

congrats on the RX65. It's a fine detector. I've been using one myself for about 7 months and have been impressed again and again. I, similar to yourself, started out with a Radio Shack unit, think I kept it for less than a week before I figured out that it was a piece of junk. Wish i'd just started off with the Bel. I know you'll just love the RX.

A couple things worth mentioning to you, i've had a little complaint about the volume with my RX as well. I guess "loud" is a relative term to people. I want a detector that I can hear with my tunes up and all four windows down cruzing along at 70-75Mph. The Bel just doesn't cut it for that in my car. *but* if you know anyone that dabbles with electronics, an efficient cone tweeter makes an excelent external speaker with no amplifier needed, and it's cheap. I found an old Bose 3" cone driver that's extremely effieient and just wired it up to an 1/8" mono plug straight out of the detector. Gives a respectable increase in volume for little/no expense. Also, don't forget that Roy has the amplified speakers for the Escort 8500, those will work with the RX too. Still thinking about getting one of those myself. much nicer looking than my speaker sitting in the cupholder :-)

Also, play with the placement of the detector. In some cars it makes an noticable difference in volume with regard to where the detector is placed, for example, my detector is louder when placed at the bottom, middle of the window than in any other location.

[frog]

first of all let me say that my city uses only low power ka. Todays contact was as I was app. an int., a cop w/ka left on was app. from a 90 deg. angle. as we were both a approx 1200 feet, I showed a 1ka, then to 3, as he turned right and was head on, I didnt go to 9 untill he was about 50 feet. I have had this same exp. w/all my detectors. I know think that this picking up from 1 or 2 miles is complete bull****(unless x band, but its not used) Maybee they are just turning their power way down? Is that possible? So far I am not thin king this unit is one bit better than my bel 925 express

[happya$$]

first of all let me say that my city uses only low power ka. Todays contact was as I was app. an int., a cop w/ka left on was app. from a 90 deg. angle. as we were both a approx 1200 feet, I showed a 1ka, then to 3, as he turned right and was head on, I didnt go to 9 untill he was about 50 feet. I have had this same exp. w/all my detectors. I know think that this picking up from 1 or 2 miles is complete bull****(unless x band, but its not used) Maybee they are just turning their power way down? Is that possible? So far I am not thin king this unit is one bit better than my bel 925 express

What the hell are you talking about? Are you speaking English?

[observin]

Frog - Anytime the active radar is at a 90 degree angle to the traffic flow detection range will be dramatically reduced. The good news is they currently cannot measure your speed when facing perpendicular to the traffic flow.

As to not going full strength until 50 feet away that sounds like there could've been something between you and the radar source blocking the signal (a truck?)

Maybe Roy has some better insight.

[compu44]

as observin pointed out, warning will be short with any detector if the beam is at a 90 degree angle from you. Also, consider that the officer may have his rear radar antenna on and not the front. This will cause the signal strength to remain relatively low until you are right on him. This is done sometimes here. The officer will clock people coming up behind him traveling the same direction. Just one more variable to consider.

Just as a bit of friendly advice, please use fewer abbriviations in your posts. I had to read it several times before I figured out "app" as being "approaching" and "int" as being intersection. I'm not sure if English is not your native language, but here in the states, I can say that i've never seen either word abbriviated. :-)

[frog]

sorry for the poor short hand, my right hand is injured. I am having to hunt and peck with my off hand. In a nutshell I was trying to say that I am happy with my detector, but at least in my city I am not impressed with the ka range of any detector I have owned, or been around. That includes escort, valentine(friends), or bel,radio shack (mine). I would imagine that my citys PD turns the power of their units down so low that they are very easily in eyeball range by the time you get a reading of 3-5.
If the detector alarming at 1 is when you should react, well, I guess I had better work on my reaction time.

[compu44]

Having driven with the 925 and the rx65, you should be getting a feel for the different tones now. For me, it's just second nature to slow down on a Ka alert. Never even have to look at the detector or think about it. Not a big deal though, the RX rarely falses on Ka in my experience. 7-8 months of mostly city driving and I can count the number of Ka falses of the RX on one hand.

[frog]

Today while running errands in Tulsa, I had 3 contacts. The first was Tulsa PD, and I picked up his constant on KA in a densly populated area of downtown from over a mile and a half!!!!! Amazing. I also caught a Tulsa county sherriff with constant on K from a long ways off, but I already knew the K range for this unit. I was apprehensive about the ka range at first, but today more, or less proved to me that my town(broken arrow) is running their ka at the lowest possible power setting. In the above mentioned ka attack, after he passed me I could tell when he met oncoming traffic, as it would rebound off that car into my detector for probably 3/4 mile. As with my bel 925 I get laser falses in the same area by the airport, although the rx65 is noticably more sensitive. Someone on this board advised me that this is common around airports. Does anyone know if the pop is ka only? I am now impressed by this detector, and of my approx. 2 dozen encounters so far, I can say that 2 of them would most likely have been pullovers ( I am in a profession that recieves professional courtesy on most minor tickets, NOT INCLUDING those from 2 wheeled warriors). I am going to enable pop tommorow, and I'll see if it falses too much.

[SmaartAasSaabr]

The laser falsing is because the wind shear sensors at airports operate on the same wavelength as LIDAR...

[compu44]

frog-
POP is on Ka and K bands. The Rx65 will detect both.

[outrun]

[/b]I got my RX65 Today.

Well I live in the city and I turned on POP and the kU band. I did 45 miles around my city and not one time did I come across an officer with radar on. I ran into 8 of them. About 4 of them had radar but it never went off.

It falsed 8 times on POP in front of Sack N Save food store. It seems like when you get just far enough away from it, it gets a small short signal and it says POP. Then it did it at walgreens as I was moving away from it.

But overall I would say it seems to cut out most of the automatic doors. I think I will disable pop around here as I don't think anyone is using it but I am sure to find out here soon.

[cavili]

[/b]I got my RX65 Today.

Well I live in the city and I turned on POP and the kU band. I did 45 miles around my city and not one time did I come across an officer with radar on. I ran into 8 of them. About 4 of them had radar but it never went off.

It falsed 8 times on POP in front of Sack N Save food store. It seems like when you get just far enough away from it, it gets a small short signal and it says POP.

But overall I would say it seems to cut out most of the automatic doors. I think I will disable pop around here as I don't think anyone is using it but I am sure to find out here soon.

Yes, with POP enabled it falses more and disabled it's much quieter. I believed factory default setting has it purposes but KA band select to Int'l and it's similarly in activating Accusweep

[outrun]

After having the RX65 now for a few days I am certainly goin got disable that POP mode. It just goes off way to much. Last night I was sitting at a self servce car wash and it went of 18 times. Just sitting there. I am not real concerned about it though. I am glad it can be disabled.

Jason

[stalkervision]

[quote=Outrun]After having the RX65 now for a few days I am certainly goin got disable that POP mode. It just goes off way to much. Last night I was sitting at a self servce car wash and it went of 18 times. Just sitting there. I am not real concerned about it though. I am glad it can be disabled.

Jason

some carwashs use microwave sensors....also some neon displays in them set off lazer as I found with my Bell but it was about 10ft. from the display. My Bell is a champ at picking up true lazer and resisting lazer falsing unlike one 400$ model we all know and love... :wink: :P

[happya$$]

My X50 would do the same darn thing which was one of the main reasons why I became a Veliever. POP on my X50 was usless to me do to the falsing issue. When POP was disabled it was GREAT though.

[cavili]

The other day was commuting along Seremban - Highway - MALAYSIA, my RX65 saved me a ticket and alerted X band over 5 to 6miles giving me suffcient times to react and commuting back to SINGAPORE again alerted X band and it saved me another ticket. It's a good detector with excellent range.

[compu44]

The other day was commuting along Seremban - Highway - MALAYSIA, my RX65 saved me a ticket and alerted X band over 5 to 6miles giving me suffcient times to react and commuting back to SINGAPORE again alerted X band and it saved me another ticket. It's a good detector with excellent range.

Glad to hear that the RX is working well for you. I seem to remember that you had some doubts about it at first.

[RacerX]

frog,
glad to see your hanging in there with it. ka can be a pain sometimes, regardless of detector. i've had encounters recently where i pick it up over a mile away, and others where i'm 1/4 mile away, i'll pass them and it never goes full alert, then goes quiet. and this is on the same stretch of highway. it wasn't instant on either, because he was out of his unit looking at an abandoned vehicle on the side of the road.
As for reaction time, i'm not sure at what point in the warning, you are actually being clocked. when detectors go full alert is there still a bit of time before you are actually in range( constant source, building up with proximity). hopefully all detectors are overcautious when they build up to full alert
RadarRoy may have the answer to that one.

[SETITOFF]

If you get a full alert, all bars, sound is practically a solid tone, the radar unit is DANGER CLOSE and the reaction time may be zero. Unless the radar is pumping at FULL POWER 2 miles away with an amplifier on it and no distorting ground clutter, you can bet you are at DANGER CLOSE range.

[COBEL]

I have an RX65 also and got my first real alert last weekend from a self-sever radar speed sign in a little mountain town. It was a fun way to get to know my detector. I think those things are pretty low power and I only got my alert about 1/4 mile away, but it really started singing as I got closer. So for those newbies that want to get to know their detector better, go find one of these self-serve radars :D

Question: is it typical for city cops to drive around with their radar on all the time? I've passed a couple in town that did not appear to be in a speed trap mode and yet I got alerts. Any advice from our more experienced city members?

[SETITOFF]

COBEL, I have found city cops in Fayetteville and Durham, NC that would have their units on constant. Don't know exactly why. Maybe to catch the one car that doesn't have a RD. At the same time to catch them while moving. Just one of tactics they are known to use.

[SETITOFF]

Ok peops, I received my RX65 today at appr. 12:30pm EST. I've had it out for a bit and so far the only NEG(-) I can say about it is the windshield suction-cup mount.

The metal bracket itself is actually too short for the RD. It doesn't leave much flex for the windshield angle just like jimbonzz stated in a previous thread or in another subject. More to follow after I return to VA.

How the #*^^ do you post pics in here? What's the simplest way?

[brick]

I've been doing it with www.imageshack.us . You just upload the image and they give you the URLs to copy and paste into your message. Really easy.

[SETITOFF]

Thanks for the link. happya$$ also hooked me up with one. Does your link allow the actual image or just the link? I'd rather be a ble to put in the actual pic.

[SETITOFF]

Thanks for the link. happya$$ also hooked me up with one. Does your link allow the actual image or just the link? I'd rather be able to put in the actual pic.

[img=http://img84.exs.cx/img84/3605/mvc002s9rk.th.jpg] (http://img84.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img84&image=mvc002s9rk.jpg)

[marlinspike]

imageshack allows for the actual image to go up.
Richard

[brick]

It will give you three URLs with each image. I've been using the second one, which puts in a small-ish version of the actual picture that you can click on for the full-size version. Not sure what the other two do...tried the second one and just stuck with it.

[marlinspike]

If you do the last one (the one that has nothing attached to it, just http://blah blahblah) most forums make the picture automatically show in full size.
Richard

http://img102.exs.cx/img102/3375/hijack6zb.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[SETITOFF]

From what I can see, only the URL or link is showing. What are you guys seeing and what am I doing wrong?

[marlinspike]

Looks like imageshack has changed since I last use it. What you want is the first link they give (copy it in full).You can see my test image in my previous post in this thread.
Richard

[SmaartAasSaabr]

Alright, you basically need a "real" URL that ends in a filename.

Ex:

http://img126.exs.cx/img126/707/radar00045lr.jpg

Notice the lower case "x"'s which should be removed (otherwise there would be an actual image showing).

Imageshack is great! Use the "first link for forums", copy & paste.

[SETITOFF]

cool, I think I got it now. So anyone wanna buy a detector? :lol: :lol: :?:

[marlinspike]

Which one and how much? I'm interested to compare my ultra expensive V1 to the cheapo units, but it'd have to be a real cheapo unit.
Richard

[SETITOFF]

Which one and how much? I'm interested to compare my ultra expensive V1 to the cheapo units, but it'd have to be a real cheapo unit.
Richard

Which one are you looking at Richard? Sorry for the late reply. You can always PM me.

[marlinspike]

I dunno, whichever one you were talking about when you said "cool, I think I got it now. So anyone wanna buy a detector?"
Richard

[SETITOFF]

Oh, so you weren't able to see the pic in the link I put up? DAmn, guess I didn't get it. Well there is a link back a few posts to the pic;

1. BEL RX65 (NOT 4 SALE) :)
2. 2EA-ESCORTS
3. UNIDEN RD-55
4. WHISTLER 1430

[marlinspike]

Which one of those is cheap as heck? Anyways, I had put the im highjacking your thread punk image up earlier, and you said you don't know how we got from radar to ramen, so i said i told you and followed that with the pic.
Richard

[SETITOFF]

Yeah, I got that. My bad for the confusion. I realized what you were saying about the thread being 'jacked' later.

As far as the RD's, the Uniden RD55, I'll give it away. The 2 ESCORTS, I'm going to send one to jimbonzzz to let him tinker with to maybe repair. The Cobra went in my wife's Maxima and the Whistler 1430 went to my kid's car. The other ESCORT, I'll open again (one day) and see if I see anything that stands out as to why it's not working (no power).

[outrun]

It was a little warm down here in Texas today and I got in the car after being in Home Depot for about 30 min and the radar was flashing something to do with service. Maybe service soon or something. I just unplugged and plugged it back in. Anybody have this happen? Does heat sometimes cause this?

Jason

[happya$$]

The Escort 8500 used to have heating problems and since Escort owns Bel well you can put two and two together

[outrun]

This is going to be a problem for me. I own a lawn company and here in Texas it gets to 140 in that truck. That RD sits on the dash all day while we are driving around to about 30 lawns.

Jason

[happya$$]

The original Escort 8500 used to have this problem. I am not sure if this problem still exist with the X50 or the RX65

[SmaartAasSaabr]

Might be best to take detector off the dash... at least put it under the seat or shaded...

[happya$$]

At those temps I do not think ANY detector can handle it

[BiGeAsYgUy]

Purchase sun shades from Walmart and install them as soon as you leave your vehicle....PROBLEM SOLVED!

[marlinspike]

Yeah, I find that the aluminum sunshades work best (I got mine from a Benz dealer since the same one without the Benz symbol actually cost MORE???!!!)
Richard

[SmaartAasSaabr]

I bought one at Dollarama for $1.15 canadian, taxes included :lol:

It's a nice piece... actually it's too large to fit my Saab, needs trimming...

That's the aluminum and mylar and foam backing one too...

[SETITOFF]

It was a little warm down here in Texas today and I got in the car after being in Home Depot for about 30 min and the radar was flashing something to do with service. Maybe service soon or something. I just unplugged and plugged it back in. Anybody have this happen? Does heat sometimes cause this?

Jason

Jason, just yesterday I took my RX65 off the windshield mount and put it on the console near the gear shift while driving. I kept hearing a beep and looked down to see the display flashing "service" something. I turned the power off then back on and it cleared. I have no idea what that was. Maybe vibrations from the trans? I've only had it 6 days so I know it shouldn't be due for any kind of tune-up or lube/oil change.... :lol: :lol:

[stalker]

I just ordered my RX65, you guys will cry if i ever give the price I paid for it away ;)

Id say it will be a dam sight better than my Bel 880...what ya reckon?? ;)

[crazyVOLVOrob]

I just ordered my RX65, you guys will cry if i ever give the price I paid for it away ;)

Id say it will be a dam sight better than my Bel 880...what ya reckon?? ;)
ebay? i got a brand new smartcord off ebay for 5.01 including shipping

[stalker]

holy crap..good bargin there m8...

my RX65 was less than $230 with smartcord and alloy case..

[happya$$]

Whatever. What auction number?

[sethy]

Guys, please don't advertise other detectors then those from radarbusters.com I know this is specifically in the rules

[happya$$]

Sethy when someone claims that they got one for $5 it raises doubts. I HIGHLY doubt it.

[stalker]

im not advertising it, thats why i didnt say where i got it from...but i can show anyone the receipt if they dont beleive me..it was less than 230 i promise u that.

[sethy]

Not you stalker :) Happy, I PM'ed ya so you know what I'm talking about

[crazyVOLVOrob]

sorry didn't know that was a rule just mentioning what i saw not trying to advertise, but when buying from place i stated you don't have that warrantee and you can not return it, plus the service may not be great

[BiGeAsYgUy]

Yes, you can buy every radar detector cheaper on Ebay not including the V1 but with that cheaper price comes no warranty, no return, and no support so you make the decision.

[happya$$]

With people like Roy around offering awesome service why would you risk it just to save $75? Roy will back up his products 100%

[stalker]

actually I got a 3 year warranty so it is all good. I aint got a PM????

[SETITOFF]

actually I got a 3 year warranty so it is all good. I aint got a PM????

Stalker, was it you making a quick trip to the states? Also asking about getting packages delivered to where you would be staying? May have been someone else...brain cells popping :)

[stalker]

yeah it was me, they are sending to where i am stying and should b therte when i arrive.

[SETITOFF]

yeah it was me, they are sending to where i am stying and should b therte when i arrive.

Then I'm sure you did get a "GOOD DEAL" :D :P

[stalker]

yeah..if i got it sent here it still would have been cheaper than if i bought one here... so I assume i would set the Ka to International??

[crazyVOLVOrob]

yeah..if i got it sent here it still would have been cheaper than if i bought one here... so I assume i would set the Ka to International??international is the set up to go with

[SETITOFF]

yeah..if i got it sent here it still would have been cheaper than if i bought one here... so I assume i would set the Ka to International??international is the set up to go with

Rob, is your RX65 set with POP on or off? Any idea what settings you Dad is using on it? Also, what setting changes can you make on the 995?