Just got my 9500I

[Shippuu]

Hey everyone i just got my 9500I for the past week and i can't tell you how much i love it. I've been coming to these forums for about the past 5 months reading but i just registered today to post . The reason i got the 9500I was cause my V1 got stolen and i thought i'd get something different this time. I really love the TRUE LOCK it is really quite now so when it even gives off one beep i slow down cause sure enough its a cop a few miles ahead ^^. Just the other day i locked did a lock out near the mall where alot of there are alot of K band falses and when i had came back to that area i got a weak k band alert at first i thought the tru lock was broke but surely enough there was a cop coming towards me with c/o full blast XD. Anyways its good to be here.

[RadarKid]

Hey everyone i just got my 9500I for the past week and i can't tell you how much i love it. I've been coming to these forums for about the past 5 months reading but i just registered today to post . The reason i got the 9500I was cause my V1 got stolen and i thought i'd get something different this time. I really love the TRUE LOCK it is really quite now so when it even gives off one beep i slow down cause sure enough its a cop a few miles ahead ^^. Just the other day i locked did a lock out near the mall where alot of there are alot of K band falses and when i had came back to that area i got a weak k band alert at first i thought the tru lock was broke but surely enough there was a cop coming towards me with c/o full blast XD. Anyways its good to be here.

Be careful with the TrueLock, that's all I'm going to say. I'd live by the

"Don't lock ANYTHING out unless you normally would drive UNDER the speedlimit in that area for at least a 1/2 radius." (i.e. - there's no chance of you getting a ticket in this area for .5 miles)

Then you'll be safe. I've had two different LEO's locked out, in two different locations between .3/.4 and .5 miles away from the original lockout point...you can read about it in my prior posts....and although I'm open to, and respect the guys opinions/knowledge/research on TRUELOCK that say perhaps its my own fault for locking out signals that may have been too strong etc. - I know that if I can't be 100% sure that NO LEO is going to be locked out, it's not worth the risk for me. It only takes 1 LEGIT lockout resulting in a ticket to make you regret using it.

[djrams80]

Be careful with the TrueLock, that's all I'm going to say. I'd live by the

"Don't lock ANYTHING out unless you normally would drive UNDER the speedlimit in that area for at least a 1/2 radius." (i.e. - there's no chance of you getting a ticket in this area for .5 miles)

Then you'll be safe. I've had two different LEO's locked out, in two different locations between .3/.4 and .5 miles away from the original lockout point...you can read about it in my prior posts....and although I'm open to, and respect the guys opinions/knowledge/research on TRUELOCK that say perhaps its my own fault for locking out signals that may have been too strong etc. - I know that if I can't be 100% sure that NO LEO is going to be locked out, it's not worth the risk for me. It only takes 1 LEGIT lockout resulting in a ticket to make you regret using it.

This poster has been spooked, so please take this into account when reading any of his posts. This statement here is somewhat misleading. In at least one of this posters encounters, he got a brief alert from a LEO's radar and the LEO was not actively looking for speeders. The LEO was sitting in a parking lot, talking to another LEO. In this type of scenario, the range at which a LEO's radar can be detected will likely be significantly reduced.

I on the other hand Truelock out every false willy-nilly. You should probably be somewhere between these two of us, not skeered like him, but also not foolishly brave like me. If you've been lurking here long, you've probably read this:
http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...fo-tricks.html

[RadarKid]

This poster has been spooked, so please take this into account when reading any of his posts. This statement here is somewhat misleading. In at least one of this posters encounters, he got a brief alert from a LEO's radar and the LEO was not actively looking for speeders. The LEO was sitting in a parking lot, talking to another LEO. In this type of scenario, the range at which a LEO's radar can be detected will likely be significantly reduced.

I on the other hand Truelock out every false willy-nilly. You should probably be somewhere between these two of us, not skeered like him, but also not foolishly brave like me. If you've been lurking here long, you've probably read this:
http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...fo-tricks.html

I think you're off here DJ. The officer WAS actively looking for speeders.
He had C/O K band, which gave me one short blip as I approached and then went on to fully block it out. When I turned off the GPS filter it blarred FULL on K band as I passed and again on a return pass to verify what I was seeing. I'm not going to get into a pissing match over it, because I know you'll fight me till the death that it was MY fault and not the detectors that it locked out an LEO not once but twice in different locations. You can call it whatever you want, but I think its important that a new user realizes its not as RARE a possibility as some would like to make it sound REGARDLESS of reading the TRUELOCK explanation.

[djrams80]

I think you're off here DJ. The officer WAS actively looking for speeders.
He had C/O K band, which gave me one short blip as I approached and then went on to fully block it out. When I turned off the GPS filter it blarred FULL on K band as I passed and again on a return pass to verify what I was seeing. I'm not going to get into a pissing match over it, because I know you'll fight me till the death that it was MY fault and not the detectors that it locked out an LEO not once but twice in different locations. You can call it whatever you want, but I think its important that a new user realizes its not as RARE a possibility as some would like to make it sound REGARDLESS of reading the TRUELOCK explanation.

I thought I had read in one of your stories that the LEO was talking to another LEO. My bad! But, you did get an alert, that part is true.

[upstatedoc]

The big question here is what is Shippuu going to do differently to ensure no one steals his $450 radar detector. You didn't leave your car door open before did you?

[RadarKid]

I thought I had read in one of your stories that the LEO was talking to another LEO. My bad! But, you did get an alert, that part is true.

True that they were sitting opposite eachother talking.....

This should have NO BEARING on the situation considering the fact that he had C/O K band facing me, in a school parking lot where its a KNOWN speedtrap, and yes I got one short blip when he was already in eye view......then completely locked out the rest of the way by them...and on the way back same issue.

[djrams80]

True that they were sitting opposite eachother talking.....

This should have NO BEARING on the situation considering the fact that he had C/O K band facing me, in a school parking lot where its a KNOWN speedtrap, and yes I got one short blip when he was already in eye view......then completely locked out the rest of the way by them...and on the way back same issue.

So, you got a short alert both times?

[RadarKid]

So, you got a short alert both times?

Are you really going to ask that question again?
It's irrelevant. The discussion is whether or not it blocks out LEO's in situations where it shouldnt. And it does.

1. A short half blip of an alert is not sufficient
2. The LEO was already in sight when I heard the half blip
3. It then blocked it out for a 1/2 mile down the road and on the return trip never alerted at all. What's your answer for that time?

I'm not going to argue it anymore...you remind me of a kid plugging his ears singing so that they don't have to listen.....if anyone wants to PM me for questions about it, thats fine.
I have my opinion of TrueLock, and its that its not 100% reliable, and anything less than that's not reliable enough for me.
You have your opinion of TrueLock, and its that its EXTREMELY unlikely that it can block out a LEO and if it did it has to be the users fault, not the detector itself. My two experiences two days in a row prove to me its not all that "rare".
We agree to disagree.

[djrams80]

Are you really going to ask that question again?

I was under the impression that one of the encounters gave no alert.

It's irrelevant. The discussion is whether or not it blocks out LEO's in situations where it shouldnt. And it does.

I totally disagree. The 9500i has no way of telling what is police radar and what is false alert radar, if the two signals are very close together. That's just physics. If you got an alert, I feel the 9500i did its' job. The RD does not have eyes.

1. A short half blip of an alert is not sufficient

Totally disagree again. If you are operating in an area with all of your known false alerts locked out, short blips are alerts, that's just the deal.

2. The LEO was already in sight when I heard the half blip

If I understand your scenario correctly, this is about detection range and has nothing to do with Truelock.

3. It then blocked it out for a 1/2 mile down the road and on the return trip never alerted at all. What's your answer for that time?

Forward facing radar has short detection range. Again, that's just the deal. If you speed past a LEO using forward facing K band radar in an area that you have K band locked out in the same frequency block, then your 9500i and your eyes are both beat.

I'm not going to argue it anymore...you remind me of a kid plugging his ears singing so that they don't have to listen.....if anyone wants to PM me for questions about it, thats fine.
I have my opinion of TrueLock, and its that its not 100% reliable, and anything less than that's not reliable enough for me.
You have your opinion of TrueLock, and its that its EXTREMELY unlikely that it can block out a LEO and if it did it has to be the users fault, not the detector itself. My two experiences two days in a row prove to me its not all that "rare".
We agree to disagree.

My 9500i as able to detect vehicle mounted police K band radar targetting traffic, in a straight line distance, for well over 1/2 mile. So, the scenario you describe, as I understand it, is not possible using my 9500i. So, either your 9500i is less sensitive than mine, or your inexperience has led you to misunderstanding as to what is really going on. But hey, that's just my opinion.