985 CANT BE TURNED ON WHILE UNDER RADAR ATTACK

**Jamescase10** · 03-15-2006, 03:22 AM

I found out from bel that you cannot turn on the unit while its under attack or the unit may not detect anything, I was told that its something to do with autoscan and that any mode will do the same thing, so dont turn it on while under heavy radar attack!

**Rottman** · 03-15-2006, 08:21 AM

:? :? :? :? Why wouldn't you have it on first thing to Detect the "Heavy Radar Attack?" :? :? :?

**Jamescase10** · 03-15-2006, 02:52 PM

omg, thats not the point. I was testing my detector, using a K band school radar sign, and found out that if one turns on the unit while recieveing a band, it wont pick it up. On another post in this forum, someone said roughly that accusweep didnt work right under Ka band. I read the post and it appeared that this issue was the cause. Just wanted everyone to know about a wierd issue I uncovered about this A1 unit. Never got a ticket ever with this detector. 8)

**HighVoltage** · 03-15-2006, 03:10 PM

Hmm, it seems the autoscan feature relies on a local sample of a "quiet" environment to establish a baseline for its filtering...

**amoney** · 03-15-2006, 06:53 PM

Originally Posted by Jamescase10

I found out from bel that you cannot turn on the unit while its under attack or the unit may not detect anything, I was told that its something to do with autoscan and that any mode will do the same thing, so dont turn it on while under heavy radar attack!

FALSE!

Go sit in front of a auto door opener, power it on. Immediately after it powers on, it will go APE SHYT, no matter how weak the "false" is, and no matter if it is in Autoscan mode or City mode.

Now I have my Bel in quick start mode, so it is ready to go instantly, if you have any other the extended start up modes going through all the settings, alerts, etc. The nyou will not get the alert until it is done, so relaticely your with out protection for the first few seconds. Besides default start mode is for NOOBS.

EDIT

Don't ask why I did not see your reply later...

Anyways, I do not know why yours was silent. Mine goes ape shyt. As far as Ka and Autoscan. I can only speak of MY Bel 985. Unfortunatley they have changed many htings in the newer Bel's, in my opinon for the worst. So maybe this is another thing about the NEWer Bels.

Here is my manual, may be the last manual that clearly explains what in the hell the options do in the older Bel models.

**vw242** · 03-15-2006, 07:39 PM

My 985 will fire up on Vmeter mode to Ka and K falses immediately!!

**asianfire** · 03-15-2006, 08:11 PM

I stay at hotels often and each morning, when I fire up my 895 (in fast start) it goes off immediately cause of the doors. So, there might be something wrong with the detector or as amoney said, something about newer bels

**amoney** · 03-15-2006, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by vw242

My 985 will fire up on Vmeter mode to Ka and K falses immediately!!

I must have a very dull detector, works great, but relatively very quiet in a city with many auto door openers. Others have even said they get falses from Cobras, even laser falses, not mine. I know it works good but kinda make me wonder if I would trade some falses for more sensitivity. Like I said I am very content with its performance. But the variation leaves me scratching my head.

**Jamescase10** · 03-15-2006, 08:44 PM

well, judging from the fact that I have not gotten a ticket in 3 years, (since buying the 985) I am not concerned about why it dont alarm out when turned on in a heavy k situation or not. Here is exactly the situation where the bel didnt go off.

I was testing its sens against other units, etc, in front of a school radar sign K band. I was right at the sign, in my car. Turned on the unit. NOTHING happened at all. I was worried. So I drove around the block, leaving the signal and coming back, it went nuts 1...2...3....9. Strange right? yeah. So I started to test it again. This time I got to around 4 on the display and turned it off. At the same place. Turned it back on..and...NOTHING AGAIN. So started to drive at the sign, and wam, Went crazy but not until it got to full 9 and went nuts like it was instant on. Even though it was turned on while it was getting a signal it ignored it until it was so strong it was on 9. Anyway, so you see what I am talking about. You cant fu*k with it, if you are testing it, you cant turn it on and off and under signal and expect it to give you correct test results. I was talking to bel and they said maybe the computer was getting hung up with all thats going on, accusweep, autoscan, etc. The rep suggested leaving it on all the time. Anyway, again, it seems to work its a** off for me, so I am not complaining. Just something I discovered. I dont believe its defective.

**amoney** · 03-15-2006, 09:19 PM

James reminded me of a situation where I was repowering on and off over and over and over and over again next to a cop that had his K band radar on. The reason why I was turning the unit on and off was that it was my first experience with using tech mode, and K band freq was hopping all around the place it was nuts. So I then continued to repower the unit to verify the frquency or to try to stabalize the dam thing, but it just continued to jump around. Every time I turn it on it went nuts immediately. This was in Autoscan mode, but AccuSweep was turn off. But does not matter, auto door openers today still go InstanOn nuts and I have AccuSweep enabled now.

Like you said I am not worried at all about it, given my experience.