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    Default Speeding ticket and lots of falses

    Hey guys, I haven't posted for a while but I do like reading this forum (V1 section REP) when I come on. Anyway, I got a V1 which is over a year old now. I had it in for service 4 days before the one year warranty was up in like June. I wrote that it was picking up false signals and keeping them until I turned off the detector. They couldn't make it do that again but they did tweak the settings a bit "back to normal" I guess and sent it back.

    Saturday I drove 900 miles and got hit with Laser in Illinois. Those troopers were impossible to see and I couldn't see the guy with the gun until prolly 500 feet away from him. Needless to say, they got us for an 82 in a 65. This is not my concern however...

    My concern is that it falses a lot on Ka band. It'll pick up a signal for Ka at a lot of different times during the trip then Junk it out. It junked out a cop or two at least. I don't know why it's Junking so much on Ka band. Any ideas?

    Thanks,
    -rockstate

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    Turn off POP and you'll reduce those a TON!

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    You have to watch ISP on the overpasses, they have an Anus up there shooting and 4-6 chase cars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by davekr
    You have to watch ISP on the overpasses, they have an Anus up there shooting and 4-6 chase cars.
    Haha yeah tell me bout it. We had the privilege of talking to the last free police officer too.

    Anyway, I'll go ahead and turn the POP off and when I make that 900 mile drive Friday I'll go ahead and let everybody know how it does.

    I just don't know why it seems to Junk every Ka band it sees! I sure do hope that this will make it better. Also, does it reduce it's sensitivity? Will I be MORE likely to be pulled over with this off? Granted, had I been driving my brother would have never gotten that ticket.

    -rockstate

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    Quote Originally Posted by rockstate45
    I just don't know why it seems to Junk every Ka band it sees!
    do you have ka false alarm guard off? (feature 6, should point up for On)

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    Well I just checked to see if I had 6 on or off. I have 6 with the arrow pointing up (on). I also have the P on startup, meaning I changed it. I think I turned that guard OFF at one point in time then turned it back on. So why do I still have that P and how can I reset it??

    Thanks for the replies,

    -rockstate

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    You are probably picking up oter detectors at the time you are thinking it is J'ing a real threat.

    More coincidence then anything.

    I had a verfied police KA signal alerting, a car went by with a junk detector that activated my "J" after showing the 2nd bogey, it kept the 1 bogey alert and continued to alert of the original KA source after the "J" cleared. So I have full trust that my V-1 is reporting J's accurately.

    I get alot of them in major metro area's too, Why? becuase more cars with junk detector are there compared to where I live. it is the laws of probability

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    Quote Originally Posted by Switchback
    You are probably picking up oter detectors at the time you are thinking it is J'ing a real threat.

    More coincidence then anything.

    I had a verfied police KA signal alerting, a car went by with a junk detector that activated my "J" after showing the 2nd bogey, it kept the 1 bogey alert and continued to alert of the original KA source after the "J" cleared. So I have full trust that my V-1 is reporting J's accurately.

    I get alot of them in major metro area's too, Why? becuase more cars with junk detector are there compared to where I live. it is the laws of probability
    That's what I thought for in the city at least. I didn't see many radar detectors on the highway so I don't know. Even when I saw the cop, it Junked out and didn't have any signal after that.

    -rockstate

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    Quote Originally Posted by rockstate45
    Well I just checked to see if I had 6 on or off. I have 6 with the arrow pointing up (on). I also have the P on startup, meaning I changed it. I think I turned that guard OFF at one point in time then turned it back on. So why do I still have that P and how can I reset it??

    Thanks for the replies,

    -rockstate
    The "P" shows up if you have any settings changed from the default (other than POP and Ku). You won't get the "P" if all the settings are set to "UP" arrow.

    However, if POP is on, you will see "P" "o" "P" in succession. Maybe that's what you're seeing. If you turn POP off but leave everything else at their defaults, you won't see the "P".
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    Quote Originally Posted by davekr
    You have to watch ISP on the overpasses, they have an Anus up there shooting and 4-6 chase cars.
    Thanks for the "Tip" Dave, I'm driving to Illinois next year to buy this guy a Salad.......with croutons.......... :P



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