I had one of those WTF encounters? Came up on a wreck and a Police cruiser was in front of a Fire truck Forward facing Ka 35.5 C/O and The SE didn't alert until around 20ft. Time for a check up.
I had one of those WTF encounters? Came up on a wreck and a Police cruiser was in front of a Fire truck Forward facing Ka 35.5 C/O and The SE didn't alert until around 20ft. Time for a check up.
I had one like that too this past week, both the 9500ci and V1 did not alert until I was right up on him. It might not be the detector, just that all of the signal was being blocked.
Valentine One (3.858 Ice Cream Truck, 3.812 in Vette)
4 Head LI (On Vette) (7.11 CPU Regular heads front, HP Heads on the rear)
9500ci (On Vette)
LI Quad (On Ice Cream Truck)
LI Dual (On SRX, 7.06 CPU)
ProLaser II, ProLaser III, Stalker LZ-1, LTI Marksman & Laser Atlanta "R" (looking for an Ultralyte LRB)
2008 Corvette Z-51 Coupe
Escort 9500 ix (Cadillac SRX)
I have had several bad Forward facing 34.7 and 35.5 and the last few months. Most of my forward facing encounters have been really good range. I wish i had my camera on me today
Just a geuss, since the radar signal is so close and thereby relatively powerful, could be its saturating or overwhelming the DSP receiver circuitry to the point it can't differentiate any frequencies let alone LEO frequencies. Typically when such electronic circuits are saturated there basically frozen in time for a while. Why it eventually alerted, who knows?
An interesting test would be to aim a radar gun point blanc at a RDer starting at a couple yards away and then incrementally increasing the distance and see what happens.
Maybe MB will comment?
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I did have Ka max off which was Ka-RSID and a Filter 2 at the time.
Jag42,
i personally find it hard to believe your SE didn't alert way before you even seen that LEO cruiser with or without Ka max under 'normal' conditions. And thats coupled with some of the excellent Ka alerts you've posted in the past. That must mean something wasn't 'normal', one of those spooky radar anomalies occurred.
Barring a proven defective detector, there's a whole bunch of circumstances which could of caused that alert scenerio you described.
Like:
-the LEO turned his 'revenue confiscator' radar gun from off to on, maybe IO'n you as you passed the carnage
-could be that LEO you probably focused on like a laser had his radar off and another LEO's cruiser in the area had his radar on but was off axis
-the LEO had a hand held unit pointed towards the floormat or the heavens
-LEO had his radar unit off axis
-momentary obstruction in front of the LEO like a tow truck, etc.
-LEO had his radar unit in rear sneak mode
-the RDer for some reason or other had a momentary lapse
-or something i can't even think of at the moment!
If one of my RDers performed normally afterwards, well.... i wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
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Last edited by MOPARado; 09-04-2010 at 07:23 PM.
I had a similar incidence with my V1 this last weekend. Strange thing is I have had that type of situation very close to that area of the freeway once before a year ago with a different patrol car.
Jag,
That fire truck was most likely reflecting the radar signal away from your
position. I have had similar encounters before, then the next encounter was fine.
Whistler1
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