Pro 78 questions

[sevaspeto]

That whole caution thing happened to me too. Pro - 78 rev c. Just a normal K band alert from a normal false location and bam, caution. and there has never been anything around there to do that. I even drove back and it did not happen again. Could have another RD had falsed my pro-78 to say caution?

[guit123]

sws is kinda useless anyway, just turn it off.

[sevaspeto]

Just did, thanks! Does having pop on reduce KA sensitivity or just give falses of other detectors. I dont know why, but I find it interesting to see who has a RD in their car going in the other direction.

[guit123]

pop off increases ka sensitivity on rev c, less falses from other rd's.

[MEM-TEK]

Originally Posted by guit123

pop off increases ka sensitivity on rev c, less falses from other rd's.

That is what I have experienced too.

[sevaspeto]

ah thanks then for your replies. I suppose its not worth the sacrifice just for kicks.

[djrams80]

Originally Posted by radardude

False alerts are going to happen no matter what detector you have. Is this your first detector?

I have to disagree with this statement.

[02stangGT]

I think the majority of my false alerts are from other RD's. Im going to turn off pop and see how well that helps. I mean the false alerts arent that bad. Today I might have gotten a laser false alert. I was driving down my buddies street and laser went off. I slowed down to the speed limit and there was no cop in site.

The highway is ridiculous with false alerts. I leave it on city when I go on long trips and im constantly getting a k or ka alert. Last trip I was on it went off so many times and there was only one state trooper that we passed and it didnt even go off when I drove by him..lol


I do love my Pro 78 though. This was my thread on my Saturn forum about it. I got it to pick up one of those machines that tells you your speed about a mile away on side streets. I was able to pick it up from Merriman (scroll down for 2nd google map image) and the machine was set up on the west side of Marquette right past Farmington rd.

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Originally Posted by MEM-TEK

I'm curious, did you get X band false alerts pretty much all the time before you turned off X band? Older 700MHz cell phones can cause many radar detectors to false on X band. Mine sure did. I recently upgraded to a newer cell phone and my X band false alert issues disappeared.

Not all the time, but more than any other band. It mainly happened when I was by walgreens or CVS pharmacys. I have an LG Fusic so im sure that it cant be setting it off.

False alerts are going to happen no matter what detector you have. Is this your first detector?

Yes it is.