Lingo

[calpalmer]

I visited the glossary and a few other places trying to find clear definitions of a couple terms I read here, "ghosting" and "J-out". No need to post the definitions again for me, but just a reference thread somewhere that does a good job? It has to have been asked many times before, believe it or not I searched and came up zilch on both "J-out" and "ghosting def"... From context use I can infer much of what ghosting means, but sure have no idea what posters mean with J-out.
Thanks in advance,
Cal

[North Alabama]

Hit search, type in "ghosting". Results: about 16 threads down, "define ghosting". Hope this helps!

[North Alabama]

J-out is when the V1 is in alarm and then afterwards determines it is another radar detector, it will flash "J" saying it is junk and stop alarming (mostly Ka).

[v1user]

Ghosting

YouTube - Outrun's Ghosting V1

YouTube - Outrun's Ghosting V1

YouTube - V1 Ghosting

YouTube - V1 Ghosting

J out

YouTube - Valentine 1 J Out

YouTube - Valentine 1 J Out

[Andrew21]

Wait a min. I never seen a 'J-out' on my V1. Is that a firmware upgrade that I need for my V1?

[jimbonzzz]

Originally Posted by Andrew21

Wait a min. I never seen a 'J-out' on my V1. Is that a firmware upgrade that I need for my V1?

It's on 3.818 and later...

[calpalmer]

Very helpful, thanks!

[calpalmer]

Thinking about the ghosting clips, at first I thought that some amount of ghosting by the V1 would be correct in that it is recognizing strong reflections from the sending unit off of approaching or nearby vehicles etc. But I guess the point is that those reflected signals should still be recorded as the same sending unit frequency, hence only 1 in the display. Is that right?

If so, wouldn't an LEO agency tactic be to always buy radar guns that transmit on the same frequency (or if tunable, have their LEOs on patrol tune them to a certain frequency)? In that case, does the V1 discern between the two signals as different guns or reflections from the same gun?