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    Default Great Ka Range

    I was traveling on my favorite stretch of highway for moving Ka when I got a 2-3 second 2 bar alert. I zeroed my trip-odometer. About a 1.7 miles later the LEO passed me going the other direction. I was close to the PSL, and with him likely doing the same, he was likely equally distant from our meeting point as I was from when I set the trip-odometer. That would make the range about 3.4 miles.

    The RD was lying on the dash about 2 inches above the hood line, so I feel pretty good about this unit's ability to detect Ka.

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    That is extremely good on Ka (heck on any band), I am assuming for range like that (on a highway), it was a relatively straight&level shot?


    It is good to hear your unit is working nothing short of spectacular.

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    I wish i could get a three mile detection on any band lol........... there are not any stretch of road wherei live that could be that straight lol

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    x50 do pretty well in ka, but that's incredible range

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    That is some fantastic range. Good to hear that you are getting those kind of results. It is always good to hear that the investment that someone has made is paying off

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    Yeah thats awsome...Ka is very good on the x50

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    My best ka range is 1.8 miles.

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    Yea thats really good range. I get real good range out here on I-20 in West Texas but not 3.4 miles, thats insane range! I would say the best I got along I-20 is probably a little less than 2 miles or so. Next trip I make I will test the range also and see what I got. I will let everyone know.

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    just a thought, and not by any means a criticism because i LOVE the x50-
    are you sure you didn't just get a false and coincidently pass a cop 1.7 miles later?

    There is the possibility that you caught a brief blip of instant on, but don't you think the cop would be sampling more than just one car?

    To me, based on your description, it does sound like this could very well be the case.

    But, I will agree that whether it was a false or not, the x50 is great on Ka.

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    Ive had about 1mile from detection to meeting point on my x50 with Ka, that was with hills albeit a straight stretch but I still picked up and F150 cop running a stalker dual at just inside a mile from first beep to passing him by going the other way with a pretty good sized hill between us. So I guess two miles going by what you said. Thats being generous too because most of the cops using mobile Ka speed about 5-10 over so as to sneak up from behind on people going the same way.

 

 

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