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    Default instant on x-band... ?

    Well, i posted a couple weeks ago asking if i should leave xband on where i live (near cleveland), and its a good thing i did, because just after i asked, i got hit 2 times on rt. 90 w/ x band radar.

    anyways, on to my question...

    So i was driving back from school again today (toledo) to cleveland, and stopped to visit my girlfriend at baldwin wallace along the way, which is in Berea. So when i left Baldwin Wallace, i was on 71 N. towards cleveland, and got a very week xband signal on my x50 (expert mode). Then, another x band kept popping up to full strength, then go away, and it did this maybe ten times (lots of traffic), however i never saw a cop. I suppose he could have been on the other side of the freeway which i couldnt see due to a concrete barrier, but i was just curios if this was maybe a problem with my detector or if it may indeed have been instant on x. Like i said, i had one very week x signal the whole time, and another pulsing signal that would go all the way up then off, then go back on again.

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    If you were on the interstate, it could have been drones. We have them all over the place in NC. They are designed to emit X or K and to make having a detector useless. You'll see them either on a poll such as this one or mounted along bridges on over passes pointing down at the interstate. Here is what a drone looks like.

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    yeah those things def suck b@ll$

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    it seems like door opners isn't enough torture on us rd users :x

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    Yeah, I can't stand them. The ones I've encountered blast every few seconds. If you hit one just right it alerts like an " Instant On " hit and we all know how scary that can be.

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    i bet thats what it was, I've seen those before but my old cough cobra cough never really picked em up i guess. Whats the point of those?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Orbital75
    If you were on the interstate, it could have been drones. We have them all over the place in NC. They are designed to emit X or K and to make having a detector useless. You'll see them either on a poll such as this one or mounted along bridges on over passes pointing down at the interstate. Here is what a drone looks like.

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    But what's the real purpose of installing these devices??? Do they do something else for the traffic, maybe working with the local DOT in helping them understand some problems with the traffic flow or whatever... I cannot believe that they are up there just to work against radar detectors in people's cars :roll:

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    I have heard from a few sources that there are 2 flavors of these drones.
    Yes the DOT uses them for some type of traffic analyzes but some are designed
    to set off radar detectors and deployed for that very reason.

 

 

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