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    Default bad x detection in city mode

    ive been having a problem with my x50 not detecting x to good in city mode(i know it cuts down sensitivity, but keep reading) there have been 3 close calls withing the last week. i have it in city, which noticeably cuts down on falses but the problem is all the towns and city's around me use X band. so in 2 cases i have come around a small curve and a cop is sitting there, it will go off full X when i am about 5 feet away from their car. its not instant on because it wtill alerts after i drive by. in the other situation im driving straight and a cop was driving toward me from a side street. he gets to the intersection and when i drive by our cars are perpendicular, thats when i get the full alers, but keeps alerting as i drive by. again not instant on. what is wrong its starting to scare me

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    what about in highway mode?

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    idk about that, on my wa yhome last night i put it in highway, but there was no cops around. so hopefully ill get a chance to try it today

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    Your second example (LEO on side street) isn't that unusual, even for X band.

    Do you have it in City standard ("City STD") mode? City LoX mode will delay X alerts even further.

    That sucks that you have real X band radar in your area!

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    Quote Originally Posted by time2fly
    Your second example (LEO on side street) isn't that unusual, even for X band.

    Do you have it in City standard ("City STD") mode? City LoX mode will delay X alerts even further.

    That sucks that you have real X band radar in your area!
    na its in regular city. the only alerts i get around here are X and the occasional K, never Ka. the only time i got KA was on my rtip down to DC through maryland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xxbillay
    Quote Originally Posted by time2fly
    Your second example (LEO on side street) isn't that unusual, even for X band.

    Do you have it in City standard ("City STD") mode? City LoX mode will delay X alerts even further.

    That sucks that you have real X band radar in your area!
    na its in regular city. the only alerts i get around here are X and the occasional K, never Ka. the only time i got KA was on my rtip down to DC through maryland.
    You might want to try reseting the unit, it might help out

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    xx,
    Try running it in auto mode. City mode suppresses the alert until it is 4 or 5 segments on the strength meter. Auto works great for me in NJ where they run lots of x band.

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    we have no x band here that i ever saw so i cant comment wish i could..

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    Quote Originally Posted by KaPro
    xx,
    Try running it in auto mode. City mode suppresses the alert until it is 4 or 5 segments on the strength meter.
    that is exactly what it does, it just suddenly goes off full or almost full. the onlything i dont like about auto is that on known K falses, it alerts noticably shorter then highway and city so i am sort of reluctant to use it in real life. i guess ill just stick to highway

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    X band sucks, probably as deadly in the city as instant on is to the highways. If I had X band on, I would have an alert every 10 seconds. It just drove me crazy, thank god it all constant Ka where I am, and lidar of course.

 

 

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