9500i 1st day review

[bizarjuggalo]

Since I only received my 9500i yesterday I have had limited time to play around with all it has to offer. But here are a few things so far:
1. The GPS speedometer is very accurate to what my car was reading.
2. Driving on the highways thru downtown Nashville my old RD (Passport 7500) would give me quite a few false alarms from businesses close to the highway. The 9500i didn't pickup hardly any when I had it in AutoSensitivity mode. Traffic slows down to almost 30 so it must have switched to City mode.
3. When it picked up a false alarm that I know of, locking it out was a breeze.
4. After you lock out a false alarm, when you drive by that location again the little satellite icon will rotate, letting you know that location is locked. I didn't read anything about that here on the forum.
5. Acquiring the GPS signal was phenomenal. I park my car straight forward in the garage at night and when I started it this morning it showed that it acquired a signal. I have never seen a GPS get signal inside a building. Also when out in the open it is very fast acquiring a signal. I start my car (RD directly wired to turn on with car), put my seat belt on, put the car on drive and signal is already acquired. I would say within 4-5 seconds.

To me this is a great RD, but as you see I was still using the old 7500 so pretty much anything was an improvement.

Additional:
Almost forgot. When I was driving by a Walgreens I got a false signal. But it showed I was picking up two signals (one at 24.110 and another at 24.172). I don't know if Walgreens doors uses two signal or if I was picking up another false close by. When I locked that location out it locked out both signals. Could this be an issue that if you want to lock out a false alarm and you are picking up and LEO's radar at the same time that you could be locking out both signals and not know it?

[carboncopy]

Great review thanks!

[f_399]

grrrr.... I want one!!!

[Deputy]

Excellent review!!! Is there anything in the instructions about what the USB port is for? Oops...never mind. Found it on their website

Dep

[radarpeeps]

You must be one of the first on the block to have a 9500i!

How the "lock out" differentiates a false vs. a LEO in virtually the same location is not clear to me. How accurate is the GPS....can it differentiate a few feet?

Thanks for the review.

[bizarjuggalo]

Besides what the manual says for the USB port, I have no idea. It doesn't come with a cable so I will have to purchase one and see what I can see.

Locking out multiple signals worries me. The only thing I can think to do is wait to lock out until I pass the location next time and hope the LEO in not there. As far as I can tell in Nashville is that LEO's use Ka band so most of the K's I can assume are false.

I am not sure how to tell the accuracy of the GPS. I don't know how I can test it.

[ELVATO]

Since I only received my 9500i yesterday I have had limited time to play around with all it has to offer. But here are a few things so far:
1. The GPS speedometer is very accurate to what my car was reading.
2. Driving on the highways thru downtown Nashville my old RD (Passport 7500) would give me quite a few false alarms from businesses close to the highway. The 9500i didn't pickup hardly any when I had it in AutoSensitivity mode. Traffic slows down to almost 30 so it must have switched to City mode.
3. When it picked up a false alarm that I know of, locking it out was a breeze.
4. After you lock out a false alarm, when you drive by that location again the little satellite icon will rotate, letting you know that location is locked. I didn't read anything about that here on the forum.
5. Acquiring the GPS signal was phenomenal. I park my car straight forward in the garage at night and when I started it this morning it showed that it acquired a signal. I have never seen a GPS get signal inside a building. Also when out in the open it is very fast acquiring a signal. I start my car (RD directly wired to turn on with car), put my seat belt on, put the car on drive and signal is already acquired. I would say within 4-5 seconds.

To me this is a great RD, but as you see I was still using the old 7500 so pretty much anything was an improvement.

Additional:
Almost forgot. When I was driving by a Walgreens I got a false signal. But it showed I was picking up two signals (one at 24.110 and another at 24.172). I don't know if Walgreens doors uses two signal or if I was picking up another false close by. When I locked that location out it locked out both signals. Could this be an issue that if you want to lock out a false alarm and you are picking up and LEO's radar at the same time that you could be locking out both signals and not know it?

So I'm assuming you had this in Spec mode, right? Does it tell you there were two signals on the spec mode? Because that would be awesome

Great review

[bizarjuggalo]

Yes, I did have it in spec mode. And when it received two multiple signals it would display one signal then flash to the next signal then switch again. Example:

with one signal it only shows:
24.110

with two signals, the first screen shows:
< 24.110 then
< 24.170 then
< 24.110 and so on.

So the < indicates more then one signal

[ES13Raven]

What is your software/firmware version?

[erickonphoenix]

Yes, I did have it in spec mode. And when it received two multiple signals it would display one signal then flash to the next signal then switch again. Example:

with one signal it only shows:
24.110

with two signals, the first screen shows:
< 24.110 then
< 24.170 then
< 24.110 and so on.

So the < indicates more then one signal

The SR7 does that. Doesn't it?? It sure looks like it's doing it. 2049@Southshor blvd has a CVS, Walgreens and a Randalls all within 500 ft of eachother. My SR7 always cycles through k 24.150/175/140