RX65 has it down... X50 does not

[ES13Raven]

I can't believe how many POP falses I have been getting with my brand-new X50 rev. 5... I get at least 1 a day, sometimes 2 and I am not driving around that much. I have verified that a few of them have come from other drivers having Cobra's or other crap detectors, but sometimes I get a POP false right before I am about to drive through a known false area.

My RX65 has never had a POP false, and the RX65 does very well in POP tests!

I wonder why Belscort can get it right with the RX65, but not the X50...

Maybe time for another firmware update :?:

[sethy]

Um, ive had the opposite results, my x50 has had 2 pop falses in 2 or 3 months, and the rx65 when i plugged it in, and turned POP on- went nuts.

[ES13Raven]

Um, ive had the opposite results, my x50 has had 2 pop falses in 2 or 3 months, and the rx65 when i plugged it in, and turned POP on- went nuts.

What firmware revision was your RX65?

EDIT: And were you running Ka INTL or USA?

[aust3333]

I can't believe how many POP falses I have been getting with my brand-new X50 rev. 5... I get at least 1 a day, sometimes 2 and I am not driving around that much. I have verified that a few of them have come from other drivers having Cobra's or other crap detectors, but sometimes I get a POP false right before I am about to drive through a known false area.

My RX65 has never had a POP false, and the RX65 does very well in POP tests!

I wonder why Belscort can get it right with the RX65, but not the X50...

Maybe time for another firmware update :?:

My RX65 does false on POP. I think it is just a matter of time ES13Raven before yours does the same. I think all manufactures are having problems with the POP falses but I seem to hear about them mostly on the X50. I turned POP off on my 65 because it use to scare the crap out of me and I just hate fasle alarms of any kind. What mode are you using your RX65 in ES13Raven? INTL or USA? I predominitely use INTL but have been experimenting with USA mode and I can tell you while using USA mode and POP together, the falses are non stop. While using INTL mode and POP, the falses are significantly reduced. Compu44 and myself have found that USA mode (no pop) does create more falses on Ka but seems to be more sensitive. I get 1 to 3 falses a day using USA mode on Ka, but INTL mode I can count on 1 hand how many falses I have recieved since owning the RX65 since July of this year. I am trying to bare with using USA mode, but while using INTL mode I am assured that it is a real threat. I can not say the same for USA mode. Sorry to get off topic a little here at the end but I hope this helps.

[ES13Raven]

What mode are you using your RX65 in ES13Raven? INTL or USA?

I run: Ka INTL, K, X, POP, Voice and Laser in City STD.

This is just something I have noticed with the X50... I used my RX65 for over a month before I got the X50. I have only had the X50 for about a week and I have received all these POP falses with it. I generally drive the same roads all the time. I never had a POP false with the RX65 driving these same roads, where with the X50 I have had at least one a day...

[aust3333]

What mode are you using your RX65 in ES13Raven? INTL or USA?

I run: Ka INTL, K, X, POP, Voice and Laser in City STD.

This is just something I have noticed with the X50... I used my RX65 for over a month before I got the X50. I have only had the X50 for about a week and I have received all these POP falses with it. I generally drive the same roads all the time. I never had a POP false with the RX65 driving these same roads, where with the X50 I have had at least one a day...

So which detector are you going to keep?

[M.Valdez]

So when you are saying pop falses you are saying when the radar detector goes full alert and displays pop on the display? This has happend to me twice with my x50, first was a real threat bike cop hitting people. then the next time, i was driving down a back road and a car comming the oposite direction caused it to go off, and when we passed oneanother I saw he had a detector in his window. I am not sure what kind but I would assume a cheap one that leaks alot?

Matt

[ES13Raven]

So which detector are you going to keep?

I'm gonna give the X50 a good month or so, then spend a week with the RX65 again and decide.

[mark1]

I was recently testing my rx65 also, hear is what I learned. When set to USA with pop on-- I got alot of falses from tractors in the fields plowing and combines, best I could figure was the radio equipment in those types of equipment.

Anyway, turned unit back to INT and reduced falses. but still falsed. I never had a verifiable pop/cop. so I now have pop turned off and run in INT mode. Peace and quiet...except for one annoying carwash door sensor that wil give me a K1 alert every day approximately 1/2 mile form the source, and it never registers more than K1.

[RadarHell]

I was recently testing my rx65 also, hear is what I learned. When set to USA with pop on-- I got alot of falses from tractors in the fields plowing and combines, best I could figure was the radio equipment in those types of equipment.

Anyway, turned unit back to INT and reduced falses. but still falsed. I never had a verifiable pop/cop. so I now have pop turned off and run in INT mode. Peace and quiet...except for one annoying carwash door sensor that wil give me a K1 alert every day approximately 1/2 mile form the source, and it never registers more than K1.

Most Farm equipment run K-band antennas. When I do my trips from Va to Central ILL. I get hit with a lot of K band. Though my last trip I had only 3 J-pops on the 3.818 firmware on my V1