Why not disable X and K band?

[charlesml3]

Gang,

I've had my 9500i for several years now and I can't seem to think of a good reason NOT to just disable X and K band on it. In 4 years, I've never had a hit on X or K that wasn't a false.

Ka of course I want to keep because that's what the HP uses.

Anyone else gone in this direction?

Thanks!

Charles
Raleigh, NC

[djrams80]

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...0-10-08-a.html

There are three encounters in this video showing North Carolina Staties using X band and a city PD running K band on the freeway in North Carolina.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FESpl8IaJW8&fmt=18"]YouTube - Xmas 2008 travel highlights part 1[/ame]

[partsfreak]

Nice vid. Nothing new to me but Im glad that it shows others how X band is still used in NC. We just learn where our falses are and then we know when an x band is legit LEO.

[CJR238]

Gang,

I've had my 9500i for several years now and I can't seem to think of a good reason NOT to just disable X and K band on it. In 4 years, I've never had a hit on X or K that wasn't a false.

Ka of course I want to keep because that's what the HP uses.

Anyone else gone in this direction?

Thanks!

Charles
Raleigh, NC

X band is still out there, just lock out all the falses you want, that's what TrueLock is for. When your in areas X or K is used you wont be surprised with a ticket because you turned off a band.

Just got a X band LEO hit for the first time in many years the other day.

I guess you got the 9500i just when it came out.

[AirMoore]

X band is still out there, just lock out all the falses you want, that's what TrueLock is for. When your in areas X or K is used you wont be surprised with a ticket because you turned off a band.

Just got a X band LEO hit for the first time in many years the other day.

I guess you got the 9500i just when it came out.

x2.

I wonder what detector he is talking about having no X/K hits on for the past 4 years, sure not the 9500i. I am assuming he had another RD then switched to the 9500i when it first came out.


At any rate, to the OP: DO NOT turn off K band, and as you can see, it would be well advised to not turn off Xband, just truelock them out (as explained above).

[Jon_Doh]

I'm in NC and I had two K band encounters yesterday and one today. Last week I drove through Raleigh on a trip and coming and going I had several radar encounters on K band.

Municipalities run a lot of K band in NC and some of the smaller towns still hang on to X band units. The state has a few MPH 55 X band radar that they bring out from time to time, I think just to catch drivers with detectors who think they are false alarms.

[Obsidian]

Gang,

I've had my 9500i for several years now and I can't seem to think of a good reason NOT to just disable X and K band on it. In 4 years, I've never had a hit on X or K that wasn't a false.

Ka of course I want to keep because that's what the HP uses.

Anyone else gone in this direction?

Thanks!

Charles
Raleigh, NC

Upgrade to the 9500ix and let AutoLearn do its job. 9500ix is sex.

[category4]

NC definately uses K and X band. I was shocked tthat there was still X band there and glad I had not turned it off.

[partsfreak]

I didnt realize you guys were so worried about K band . There is more K band in NC than X band, but there are also more K falses than x falses too.
Im not concerened enough about the falses to buy a trulock RD yet tho. Theres just not enough of them to warrant the extra expense.

[poolmon]

X and K bands are still widely in use.

In NJ virtually all major roads are still patrolled using the X band. And damn do they like to "light you up" in that state!

In MD automated speedtraps use K band. While the GPS can alert to the fixed traps, you need K band to alert you the ever growing number of mobile ones they use.

Guess it just depends where you travel as to how to set your band preferences.