Question on Escort Passport 8500 X50

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Originally Posted by sausage

Actually I knew that it was detectable, but thought only from a distance of appox. 1382 feet. I was under the impression that the X50 would give me a warning of some kind anyway about the approching Specter II. Does that sound better, Or I'm I still SOL... hahaha!

chris

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Only from a distance of 1382 feet. Isn't that like a 1/4 of a mile?

There is NO detector that will give you a spectre warning, including the 8500

Hmm. somehow i'm not surprised, whistler and cobra units did have a nasty tendancy to alert on the wrong band. Still, it's nice that they tried, more than anyone else did at the time.

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Originally Posted by RadarRoy

Well the old Cobra did not "exactly" detect the Spectre I, but it came close. The Spectre I detected the Cobra and the Cobra sometimes gave off a VG2 alert, but never a Spectre alert as it was designed to do. You are correct on Spectre II. Just after this, they upgraded the I to II based upon the Cobra's alert

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