Originally Posted by
ibleedblue
...What the STI really seemed to like was falsing X on the open road. About 20 minutes after we got started, the STI started showing a X band hit of 10.576. This went on for miles. Nothing could be seen behind us, nothing in front of us. I powered the detector down and tried again. As soon as it started up again it was right back at it. Finally after nearly 15 miles this stops. Then an hour or so later, it started beeping 10.576 eight times about every 45 seconds. This too went on for about 15 miles. I was running in auto mode, but had to put it in City No X on the highway to shut it up. Again, there was nothing visible behind us or in front of us...
I ibleedblue,
Welcome to the forum!
I am curious where you were at when you were getting the X band false alerts. It sounds a lot like what I experienced on I-95 at various points while traveling through Providence RI, Wilmington DE, and around Baltimore MD.
Maritime vessels and ports use X band radar for navigation, and their radar antennas continuously rotate to scan the entire horizon. I too got X band alerts in the areas I mentioned, with each alert lasting only a few seconds. I didn't time the intervals between the alerts, but recall that the alerts seem to be spaced somewhere between 30 to 45 seconds apart. Both my V995 and STi produced these X band alerts in the areas I described.
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