What is Ka Band segmentation? well a segment is a part of a thing.
Eg a part of a house is the living room hope this makes sense?.
Say you are looking for a tool at your house where would you look for it? in the garage where the tools are kept right? it just wouldn't make any sense at all looking for it in the living room or the bedroom chances are you wont find it there.
Ka band is a frequency range and much like a house it has parts to it (segments)
the radar detector is always scanning/searching for radar but rather then have it scan the entire house or range. lets program it to only look for radar in the areas where it will likely find them and skip the ares where it isn't going to find them. this speeds up the search and makes detection quicker.
Here's another example and its abit shorter
lets say Ka band is numbers 123456789
If your detector isn't running segmented scan meaning only looking for certain parts it takes longer.
It will have to scan from 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 to 5 to 6 to 7 to 8 to 9.
if it is scanning number 8 and a radar transmits on number 3 with an instant on shot the detector will miss it = no alert.
Ok now we will segment the detectors scanning range to only scan number 2 3 and 4.
Now the detector is only looking or scanning for radar in the range where radar is used.
a refined search.
so a radar transmits on number 3 with an instant on shot , the detector picks it up real quick its only got 3 places to look. 2 3 and 4. when it scans no 3 the detector alerts and you here " beep beep Ka band beep beep "
it doesn't have to scan the other numbers as there wont be anything there.
It also cuts down on false alerts as well, so now the detector picks up quicker and it has longer range well that's my understanding.
Heres a video of Ka segmentation if none of my examples make sense.
The only detectors that I know of that have is the Escort Redline the Valentine 1.
And the Beltronics Rx65 has a similar mode. it has Ka international which scans everything and Ka USA mode which only scans for radar that is used the the USA.
Ka USA Mode would be great to use in New Zealand because the Stalker DSR is made in the USA and it transmits on Ka 34.7.
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the tech meter is the only way to find out what radars are used in your area?
Well its one way of knowing the other way is online research eg the radar detector forums other websites.
As for the radardetector . net forum i don't know many people on here at all just my self ghz1 Veil guy and im getting to know you. I don't know much about the history of it i just come to learn and share knowledge.
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