Vector 940 Performance

[niran916]

I'm live her in Sacramento as well. They only use Ka but I heard there are just starting to use laser down here. the only pop alerts I get are RD that leak. I have never seen a K band go off here either.

[T-Will]

In Rancho Cordova I hear all the bike cops are using laser. My detector gave me a laser warning today but I didn't see any cops, can laser ever be a false detection?

Also, the other day I got a Ka warning and the bike cop had pulled someone over about 1/4 mile down the street going the opposite direction.

Then tonight I got a Ka detection, I looked around and saw a car behind me, didn't think it was a cop. Then when I got to the stoplight I could see that it was a cop behind me, not sure where he came from.

So far I'm pretty happy with the 940!

[niran916]

I've never got a laser hit on my Rd here in Sacramento.

[Ace_Racer]

I've never got a laser hit on my Rd here in Sacramento.

In due time my friend, in due time

Ace

[T-Will]

I was heading east on 50 headed up towards El Dorado Hills, I got a light Ka warning so I slowed down, about 3 miles down the freeway was the cop who had someone else pulled over going the other direction. So far I'm really happy with this detector.

[proudNMAmember]

Laserhead, which way did you take to go up to Cadillac? Curious?

[niran916]

Ya, I know I will sooner or later. I just hope they take there time to upgrade.

[alpinestars_2002795]

Vector 940


Had this detector for 5 years now. Very good unit!! It is extremly sensitive to all bands as radar roy says blistering sensitivity to all radar bands!! LOL!! x,k,ka It got great range over hills and around curves sometimes even through or around brick buildings!!! Awsome horn design! umm I have tested the sensitivity on mine to my sti they picked up k band falses at the same points they even matched one another in sensitivity!! The only problem i have with my vector 940 is the inability to turn off x band...and that after owning the detector for less than 6 months the audio went out completely this seems to be a belscort flaw as my x-50 did the same and had the same problem so be carefull not to crank the volume up on belscorts too much if your deaf like me from being in the army...now there is a city or i think city mode which is nice, a auto scan which is a hellashious filtering mechonisim on the vector 940 i actually turned on autoscan one night and drove right past rite aid which NMAMember knows how bad that area is when it comes to k band falsing...TO receive no k band false but pick up a Leo 2 miles up the road after junking out rite aid!! So this is a very great detector as some of the users said it is just lacking some of the neat features the biggest is being able to turn of x band and other bands that aren't needed..no spec or frequency display... other than that it is all around a stellar preformer in my book!! It always saved me, countless times as the user described over hills miles away!! Umm I haven't gotten to do much laser testing on this device yet, i think i will get around to it for all of you and post the results asap with my prolaser2!!!



AlPiNe~

[T-Will]

Does the older version of the 940 have different features than the newer version? I'm not familiar with the "auto scan" mode, every time I pass a grocery store I get the K warning, it would be nice to be able to turn this off. Also, in City mode, X band is at least silenced, can't turn it off completely, but at least it doesn't startle you.

[alpinestars_2002795]

One other thing My fellow michigander THere at good old U of M which i like that college... Anyhow The vector 940 does not have pop detection!! So i wouldn't highly reccomend looking for a pop radar trap as it doesn't have pop detection 67ms or 16ms watch .....yourself.... like I said some of the nice features and new new technology wasn't embedded in this lil baby it still is a killer detector and was definetly rockin back in its hay day though..



AlPiNe~