false pop, or real pop?

[SETITOFF]

With my x50, i get quit a number of pops. Usually what happens is the x50 just bursts out with a POP warning, then goes back to normal

However, last night, I was at a traffic light and i got popped twice...but each time it happend, instead of going back to normal mode after the pop alarm sounded, it just displayed "K"...without signal strength. It lasted for about 1-2 seconds, and went back to normal.

Was this a real pop, or a false pop, or what?? I never have seen a band displayed after a pop alert like this.

As much as I hate to admit it, I believe that the escort has problems identifying instant on from POP on occation. I have had the same experiance you are having.

Sethy POP is a form of INSTANT ON. It's a sudden burst of RF and it is sensed by the RD INSTANTLY. I'm not saying this to be funny, it's fact.

[sethy]

With my x50, i get quit a number of pops. Usually what happens is the x50 just bursts out with a POP warning, then goes back to normal

However, last night, I was at a traffic light and i got popped twice...but each time it happend, instead of going back to normal mode after the pop alarm sounded, it just displayed "K"...without signal strength. It lasted for about 1-2 seconds, and went back to normal.

Was this a real pop, or a false pop, or what?? I never have seen a band displayed after a pop alert like this.

As much as I hate to admit it, I believe that the escort has problems identifying instant on from POP on occation. I have had the same experiance you are having.

Sethy POP is a form of INSTANT ON. It's a sudden burst of RF and it is sensed by the RD INSTANTLY. I'm not saying this to be funny, it's fact.

yes but instant on is about 3 or 4 seconds. pop is 68ms

[compu44]

My RX65 will occasionally identify weak sources as POP or sometimes even go between POP and constant Ka when the source is close.

[Brent_Vino]

from the looks of it, the x50 falses on pop as much as the V1 in A mode on xband.

definately not a good sign.

[sethy]

no, not THAT much

[sethy]

no, not THAT much

[cjs180]

On my 8500 w/out pop, today it was going from k to ka for about a block in the city where I normally never get anything. Never did see anything though. You guys are getting me WAY TOO into this radar detector cr*p!

Thanks, Chris

[sethy]

this crap will help us avoid tickets :-p

[SETITOFF]

On my 8500 w/out pop, today it was going from k to ka for about a block in the city where I normally never get anything. Never did see anything though. You guys are getting me WAY TOO into this radar detector cr*p!

Thanks, Chris

It's actually causing you to be alert and that's a good thing :wink:
Remember this as well, just because you didn't see anything (LEOs) doesn't mean 1 (or 2) weren't there somewhere.

[SmaartAasSaabr]

SWS was invented by the lobby organisation RADAR (Bel, Whistler, a few others) formed in the mid 1980's. SWS came "on line" in 1995. I don't know if there are any SWS transmitters in use anywhere at the moment, I've never seen one.

There is also Safety Alert signals too, produced by a different organization (Cobra, someone else).

SWS xmits on 24.1 GHZ. K band detectors scan 24.1 through 24.2.