I am on a road trip with my newly installed RD setup, and have a few observations I thought would interest a few here. I have a 9500ci with the antenna centered in the front grill, combined with a hardwired, high mounted V1. The ci has everything on except sws, and the V1 has everything on as well. Initially with the ci running on autoscan mode, it would alert first before the V1. In highway mode I had basically the same alert status, i.e., the ci would alert before the V1. When I got into California where x is not an issue, I set the 9500ci to AutoNox. I started to notice at this point the V1 would alert first to k, and Ka, at times long before the 9500 would. I then reprogrammed the 9500ci to run with x off, and then switched to highway mode. After I did this the 9500ci started alerting to Ka, and k, at times long before the V1 would. The only time the V1 alerted first after reprogramming the 9500ci was when I was directly behind a semi truck, and I think the truck was obstructing the view of the ci antenna to some extent, regardless, the V1 alerted to Ka first. I also experienced a few times when one or the other would not alert at all, and the other would. It didn’t seem to matter to what band it was receiving either, and it was random as to which would alert and which would not. I guess the real issue I am trying to point out is that when the 9500ci is in AtuoNox, its sensitivity seems to diminish quite a bit.
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