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    I'm new to all of this and I'm not sure if this is what you call an "Instant on alert". So tonight I'm driving home from my night class....and my rx65 gives me a short Ka1 hit...maybe for 3-4 seconds...then nothing...so I slow down (like anyone would do with a Ka hit) and keep driving.....then about oh 30 seconds later...BAM Ka9!! Sure enough I look in the other lane going the opposite direction is a State Trooper...So my question is...is this what you guys call an Instant on alert, or could my detector be buggin out?

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    That is pretty much the classic 'instant-on' situation.

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    wow....now I see how important it is to have a good RD. If I wouldn't have gotten that first short Ka alert...I woulda prolly had a bad night!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1941chevy
    wow....now I see how important it is to have a good RD. If I wouldn't have gotten that first short Ka alert...I woulda prolly had a bad night!!!
    Bingo! That's why maximum sensitivity is so important. You want to pick up the short, weak Ka burst when somebody way ahead of you is getting clocked with instant on.

    Looks like the RX-65 is serving you well.

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    Good for you for being alert and responding to the first KA hit you got.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1941chevy
    I'm new to all of this and I'm not sure if this is what you call an "Instant on alert". So tonight I'm driving home from my night class....and my rx65 gives me a short Ka1 hit...maybe for 3-4 seconds...then nothing...so I slow down (like anyone would do with a Ka hit) and keep driving.....then about oh 30 seconds later...BAM Ka9!! Sure enough I look in the other lane going the opposite direction is a State Trooper...So my question is...is this what you guys call an Instant on alert, or could my detector be buggin out?
    So basically he had a rabbit in fronta him and then the trooper hit him with Ka and then your detector saw that radar was on, and then went away but then came back to hit you with it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1941chevy
    I'm new to all of this and I'm not sure if this is what you call an "Instant on alert". So tonight I'm driving home from my night class....and my rx65 gives me a short Ka1 hit...maybe for 3-4 seconds...then nothing...so I slow down (like anyone would do with a Ka hit) and keep driving.....then about oh 30 seconds later...BAM Ka9!! Sure enough I look in the other lane going the opposite direction is a State Trooper...So my question is...is this what you guys call an Instant on alert, or could my detector be buggin out?
    This also happen to me last night, exact situation going home the RX65 saved my a$$.

    I will give you the low down of another hit last night too.
    In two days my RX65 saved me 3 times. It now has paid for it's self twice form all the other hits combined. I detected a K band alert on my way home too this was one hiding around a building I detected it. Other cars didn't slow down and cars passed me then wham. Cop pulled right in front of me and pulled over one of the cars that passed me. Suckers….

 

 

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