STI Driver thoughts

[ezekielguy86]

Ok Im new to the forum and not a expert by any means when it comes to RD's but have owned a few. I currently have a Passport Max which honestly am not to thrilled with as I feel the range is rather weak.

Well Ive been thinking about sending it back and getting one of the following-

Redline, STI Magnum, or a V1 "which Ive owned 5 escorts and unsure about V1 territory"

Well I was in my local Pilot this morning and seen they had a STI Driver new for $299 and thought it was a good deal. Told me I had 7 days to return for full refund so I picked it up.

I haven't had time to mess with it yet since Ive been at work all day but what do you think I should do. I want the best range possible in a detector since well thats why I have one.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

[ka34.739]

Well i have had a Valentine one and im not a fan to be honest not to say it's not a good detector. Its just not me it seemed to false alert heaps and i didn't like the display at all. I am a big Escort/Beltronics fan because of the range and the style and the display ease of use. I would honestly go with the Escort Redline if i was going in the market for a detector again the long range and the ka segmentation look great on it. I would segment mine to ka 347 only as thats the one our police use and it would give a quick response time based on what i have seen.

[ezekielguy86]

I would segment mine to ka 347 only as thats the one our police use and it would give a quick response time based on what i have seen.

What do you mean by this?

[ezekielguy86]

I would segment mine to ka 347 only as thats the one our police use and it would give a quick response time based on what i have seen.

What do you mean by this?

[ezekielguy86]

Im leaning more to getting the Redline and just going to wait till after this weekend since Im making a trip to Charleston. I already returned the Driver as it wasn't what I wanted. Which is what I expected I just wanted to try. It hit everything the same time as my Max if not a mill sec behind it which I didn't expect it to do leaps and bounds over the Max in the first place. Just thought it would be fun to try.

I keep reading that everyone likes the Ramp up better on the Magnum compared to the Redline. Have they fixed this issue and is there a way to get the Magnum tones on the Redline because I kinda liked them on the Driver.

[ezekielguy86]

Picked up a Redding.

[ka34.739]

Im leaning more to getting the Redline and just going to wait till after this weekend since Im making a trip to Charleston. I already returned the Driver as it wasn't what I wanted. Which is what I expected I just wanted to try. It hit everything the same time as my Max if not a mill sec behind it which I didn't expect it to do leaps and bounds over the Max in the first place. Just thought it would be fun to try.

I keep reading that everyone likes the Ramp up better on the Magnum compared to the Redline. Have they fixed this issue and is there a way to get the Magnum tones on the Redline because I kinda liked them on the Driver.

I don't think you can get the Magnum tones on the redline I love the tones on the magnum especially the Ka band alert tone.

No I don't believe they have fixed the ramp on the Redline as of yet but im not completely sure.

[ka34.739]

I would segment mine to ka 347 only as thats the one our police use and it would give a quick response time based on what i have seen.

What do you mean by this?

What do i mean by Ka band Segmentation ? Well it's basically a feature on the Escort redline that allows you to refine the range of scanning on Ka band. So instead of scanning the entire Ka band range it will only scan certain parts of it.
Making the detector quicker to pick up signals especially when the officer is using instant on/quick trigger which fires short bursts of radar beam , making it hard for detectors to pick up.

And giving you less warning.

Say for example the Ka band range goes from 1 to 10
the officer's radar transmits on number 10 , you can then turn off scanning on 123456789 and just scan 10 only and your detector will pick it up real quick because it's not scanning the entire range.

Thats the basic principle be-hide segmentation. ( dividing in to parts )

[RadarGeek]

I would segment mine to ka 347 only as thats the one our police use and it would give a quick response time based on what i have seen.

What do you mean by this?

What do i mean by Ka band Segmentation ? Well it's basically a feature on the Escort redline that allows you to refine the range of scanning on Ka band. So instead of scanning the entire Ka band range it will only scan certain parts of it.
Making the detector quicker to pick up signals especially when the officer is using instant on/quick trigger which fires short bursts of radar beam , making it hard for detectors to pick up.

And giving you less warning.

Say for example the Ka band range goes from 1 to 10
the officer's radar transmits on number 10 , you can then turn off scanning on 123456789 and just scan 10 only and your detector will pick it up real quick because it's not scanning the entire range.

Thats the basic principle be-hide segmentation. ( dividing in to parts )

The performance gain is NOT obtained from band segmentation. The performance gain is from being able to turn RDR radar detector rejection off. Segmenting Ka helps to reduce false alerts from Cobras.

[ka34.739]

i stand corrected.