leaking crapra

**xihua** · 07-15-2006, 07:54 PM

While driving down the highway, i noticed a mustang next to me had a cobra no doubt. 3 mins later my v1 alerted weak Ka. then 2mins later..my v1 went full strength Ka and nearly pissed my pants. I didint see and LEO's around me..but i was wondering if cobras leak of Ka can cause a full strength of Ka on the v1? im pretty sure it was an LEO using instant on..but im just making sure.

**sethy** · 07-15-2006, 08:12 PM

I have never seen a detector make another go full alert

**jimbonzzz** · 07-15-2006, 08:13 PM

I've had it happen with V1+Cobra in the lab at very close range. But who knows how far away it would happen...

**xihua** · 07-15-2006, 08:28 PM

By the time the V1 went full on Ka, seconds later the white mustang flew by me in the right lane.

**Daz** · 07-16-2006, 09:13 AM

While driving down the highway, i noticed a mustang next to me had a cobra no doubt. 3 mins later my v1 alerted weak Ka. then 2mins later..my v1 went full strength Ka and nearly pissed my pants. I didint see and LEO's around me..but i was wondering if cobras leak of Ka can cause a full strength of Ka on the v1? im pretty sure it was an LEO using instant on..but im just making sure.

I tend to find that other cobra's make my STi false on X-band and never on KA band. I was recently in Michigan and you guys aren't kidding about the leaky detector problem. I would get tons of weak X-Band signals on hwy 94.

**compu44** · 07-16-2006, 01:22 PM

Cobras commonly trigger 33.728 on my RX65.

**DogGod** · 07-16-2006, 04:25 PM

A while back I had a RD in a mitsu suv give a full ka signal as i passed him, it detected the other RD from about 1/8th mile away and slowly ramped up to full as I was next to him.

**Switchback** · 07-16-2006, 06:22 PM

Just last week I had a Cobra set my V-1 into full alert at nearly 25 yards distance. it started the KA alert at about 500 yards. It did not "J" it out either. I thought I missed a sneaky leo because of the way the KA alert ramped up. (rarely used band up by me, mostly K-band here) I pulled a u-turn to see where the leo was sitting and got a rear alert as soon as I passed this parked car with a guy reading a map. When I pulled my second u-turn to get back to where I was first going, the KA alert ramped up again steadily as I approached this same car, so I pulled up to it and asked what type of RD he was using, It was a cobra), and he asked how I knew, then I showed him mine alerting to him.

So from my experience the cobra's do not put out a signal to the rear part of the unit, just the front, and strong too!

The way these cobra's broadcast a strong KA signal, I doubt leo's would even need a spectre to find them, they just need another radar detector.

These things broadcast KA so strong, it makes you wonder if they can even detect a signal over their own leakage!!