Alert Lock....Scary testing results for GX-65.

[<<JAZZY>>]

If TrueLocked worked without ever having a chance of blocking out police radar, I would definitely consider it over the Valentine One. When I first heard of TrueLock I was skeptical. My first thought was, "How can it know that it is a K band door opener and not K band police radar because they both work in the same frequency range?" Then I thought about how Jimbonzzz said that door openers are more prone to frequency drift. Jimbonzzz also said that the frequency display is only so accurate on the $300-$500 Belscorts because it is not a $50,000 lab test unit. Sure, we haven't heard of any speeding tickets yet, but most of the people on this forum know its limitations and look for the spinning satellite icon when they think something is fishy. The average person doesn't know of its technical limitations or doesn't have access to CJR238's small but helpful 3,592 word essay on TrueLock.

I will bet money that people have received tickets but they are not on this forum, or they are too embarassed to admit they got one because they dropped $500 on a radar detector that failed them, or they think the cop is lying about picking them up on radar, or maybe they think they were paced, etc. They are probably alot like the Escort users on this forum, they don't want to admit there is a problem because that would be admitting defeat or maybe they are completely clueless as to why they received a ticket. I would buy a Belscort if Escort or Bel could make a radar/laser detector where TrueLock would have a 0&#37; chance of blocking out police K band in a TrueLocked area, with arrows and a front and rear radar antenna that is upgradeable from home with excellent customer service like Valentine Research has provided for me.

I think of my radar detector as a security guard working in the dark protecting my house. I would rather have my guard tell me he thought he saw a shadow in the moonlight rather than filter it out and tell me nothing and assume his eyes were just adjusting to the light. I would rather have my guard tell me that he thought he heard a twig snap rather than filter it out and tell me nothing because he thought it was just a squirrel eating an acorn. The shadow or the twig snapping could have been a real threat but I wouldn't know about it if the guard was filtering all of the information he received and making uneducated guesses. I like all the information I receive in life to be raw with no filters and no misinformation.

I would rather have too much information than too little which is why I roll with a Valentine One.

[FoolishOne]

They more than likely do not store the frequency. They use that frequency to determine which bucket the false gets put in and then discard the frequency. Therefore when you drive down Sesame St. it knows the GPS and how many falses should be in each bucket.

Escort should have put something in there about a surplus of incoming frequencies, but they didn't.

[Obsidian]

I would agree, but the door opener in the morning when its 40 degrees out compared to later in the day at 90 degrees may make the frequency drift. So you cant lock out an EXACT frequency, you have to lock out a block of +/- a certain amount which is what Im sure they did. They need to narrow that amount way down.

Doesn't matter. I'm saying if you have a K band Truelock location, and then you get another K band hit within that locked radius, no matter the frequency, it should automatically override the lock and alert the new signal. There is no reason these detector's should not be able to do that. That would be more effective than locking out segments, IMO.

I would think they could do it with a simple software update.

[chris3g]

Doesn't matter. I'm saying if you have a K band Truelock location, and then you get another K band hit within that locked radius, no matter the frequency, it should automatically override the lock and alert the new signal. There is no reason these detector's should not be able to do that. That would be more effective than locking out segments, IMO.

I would think they could do it with a simple software update.

Im not sure that would work because k-band falses are rarely a single signal. Most stores that have auto doors will have more than 1 opener. My local supermarket has 8, and i've noticed that when close by, the bogey counter on the V1 will vary on how many individual signals it is detecting. I don't think it is possible to for a detector to accurately determine that 8 identical door openers all within 50 ft of each other, all operating on the same or similar frequency, are in fact 8 different signals. And if it can't accurately determine exactly the # of signals to lock out at each lockout point, then it just wouldn't work to do it that way.

[happya$$]

I will be the first one to admit that I LOVE the quiet ride I get with my 9500CI but not at the expense of a potential speeding ticket. Since the 9500CI's autolock has let me down three times I have ZERO confidence in it. I never had that feeling with my V1 which I drove with for over a decade. I might be going back to it very soon

[happya$$]

Actually schedule the next GOL test and I'll think about it.

May 2009 bring your a$$ down lol

[thestaton]

I will be the first one to admit that I LOVE the quiet ride I get with my 9500CI but not at the expense of a potential speeding ticket. Since the 9500CI's autolock has let me down three times I have ZERO confidence in it. I never had that feeling with my V1 which I drove with for over a decade. I might be going back to it very soon

or just turn it off you noob.

[happya$$]

or just turn it off you noob.

I have turned it off but I do niss the arrows and accurate bogey counter of my beloved 3.813

[thestaton]

I have turned it off but I do miss the arrows and accurate bogey counter of my beloved 3.813

son, you gotta get with the times. arrows N spec mode is what all the ballers and anyone who would consider themselves a master of the trade would be running.

3.813 + 9500CI is almost cheating.

[djrams80]

Bring yours to our next GOL even so you can be disapointed. Facts are hard to dispute. I almost got THREE tickets because of this

The only one that's going to be disappointed at the next GOL is YOU, when you get smoked by the Stang by failing to get PT!