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  1. #41
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    Default Re: Idiot runs two radar detectors in his car! Escort X50 and BEL GX65!

    Quote Originally Posted by Clay_in_Nashville View Post
    I went ahead and posted a comment! It's on the video.
    I did one too, haha

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    Default Re: Idiot runs two radar detectors in his car! Escort X50 and BEL GX65!

    If that his house in the background I have two questions.

    #1) Why drive a PS.
    #2) Why don't you have a CI & V1 combo.

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    Default Re: Idiot runs two radar detectors in his car! Escort X50 and BEL GX65!

    Quote Originally Posted by Offshore View Post
    If that his house in the background I have two questions.

    #1) Why drive a PS.
    #2) Why don't you have a CI & V1 combo.
    He is just renting a room. Judging by his accent he is a laborer there and has a room. That is just my guess. Looking at his other videos I wonder why he would just have all his stuff in one smallish room unless his wife is a whip wielding sugar momma

    When I was looking at a sailing instructor job out in the Hampton's, all the clubs staff would of stayed in a huge house would either share a room with another staffer or those in higher positions had their own room.

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    Default Re: Idiot runs two radar detectors in his car! Escort X50 and BEL GX65!

    Quote Originally Posted by TSi+WRX View Post

    Quote Originally Posted by WRX STiMULi View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by supercowpowers View Post
    Some of your Belscorts have the threat display that can show you a grand total of, I think, 2 K, 2 Ka and 4 X sources at a time - pretty ghetto and worthless, but I guess it counts for something.
    How many do you need to pay attention to your speed?

    How many (typically) of the bogeys are falses?

    I don't want to continue your V1 Escort/Bel war but ghetto and worthless?

    PUHLEASE...
    As a user of Escort's "ExpertMeter" for the past 5+ years, I do believe that, compared against the V1's "Bogey Counter," that the Escorts do have a weakness in not being able to display past the preset 2x Ka, 2x K, and 4x X-band threat resolution.

    Although far from perfect itself (since it offers a band/number combo, but no true discrimination between "how many of which"), the V1 at least has the capability to display "more." And while that may not necessarily be a tactical advantage (particularly in highly reflective surroundings), to an extent, it can potentially offer more user protection.

    For example, I've seen more than my share of distanced speed traps, with multiple enforcement vehicles individually running RADAR, that can easily defeat the 2x Ka and 2x K-band resolution. Similarly, with the potential of signal splitting and merging, such restricted display capability also presents some worry.

    Additionally, given the use of K-band door-openers and such, in many metro areas, the segmentation of the K-band threat display to only 2 alert signals also carries distinct risk, to those of us who live in an area where K-band enforcement, in combination with the above, is a typical and daily presentation (as with the above, I also count myself in this population - Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights, Warrensville Heights, and Highland Hills serve as perfect demonstration of this concern, for those who live in my area and would care to confirm, for themselves).

    Certainly, there are advantages to the Escort system (i.e. the "Multiple Signals Detected" voice alerts of the higher-end units, as well as the unique-signal delineation and visual alert strength ramping), but I find that defending any one setup, versus the other, is a moot point, particularly as neither is even remotely close to perfection.
    I didn't want this to be a ninja-revision, so I decided to quote my previous response to WRX STiMULi.

    I think that Escort could have gone one step above-and-beyond, and have squashed many of our current complaints of its ExpertMeter display parameters by allowing the unique end-user to fully customize the segmentation.

    For me, for example, locally, I'd dedicate all but two segments to K-band - and on the highway, all but one to X-band. Yet others who live in Ka-band only areas may decide to run all but two bands Ka, thus allowing maximal resolution of that priority concern, in their area.

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    Default Re: Idiot runs two radar detectors in his car! Escort X50 and BEL GX65!

    Quote Originally Posted by TSi+WRX View Post
    I didn't want this to be a ninja-revision, so I decided to quote my previous response to WRX STiMULi.

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    Default Re: Idiot runs two radar detectors in his car! Escort X50 and BEL GX65!

    ^ I hate people who ninja-edit....and then I wind up missing a whole chunk of pertinent discussion.

    I wanted to be sure that you understood exactly how and why I feel the way that I do, so that if I was missing something, my fellow Subaru brother, you could help me reason through it!

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    Default Re: Idiot runs two radar detectors in his car! Escort X50 and BEL GX65!

    Quote Originally Posted by TSi+WRX View Post
    ^ I hate people who ninja-edit....and then I wind up missing a whole chunk of pertinent discussion.

    I wanted to be sure that you understood exactly how and why I feel the way that I do, so that if I was missing something, my fellow Subaru brother, you could help me reason through it!
    I was not in a position at the time to elaborate my feeling on your post. I had my reasons that I will give other information on that later,

    Based on your observations of the way Escort displays bogeys I agree there could be a better way but there a issues that many of us don't think about, patents.

    Before long there will be patents on one corner smiles,

    Anyway I would be very happy if Escort made the effort to give us as much information as possible.
    It would be nice if they allowed an auxillary display that would tell us what freqs have been locked out, at what coordinates and what other signals are being heard at that location,

    Escort could do better. Many time they do just good enough for us to buy the next products and we do.

    For the bucks we spend there could be better logic and more info. But there will be and we will buy it.

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    Default Re: Idiot runs two radar detectors in his car! Escort X50 and BEL GX65!

    ^ Agreed on all counts.

    If we could only get open-source support on these products, like what we're used to with our Subarus.

 

 

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