Veil Guy's Review of the Escort Passport 9500i

Nice, in-depth review. It's the first I've read of the speed features. I thinkthe speed-relative sensitivity is a good idea.

Marking non-radar locations like vascar traps is not very useful as you already know about them and already slow down for them. This becomes useful if they offer a central database or some other way to easily share local knowlege locations among a trusted group.

It sounds like sensitivity is a down a bit though. Looking forward to the real comparison tests among production units.

jwardell,

Point well taken. The thing I like about marking known traps like VASCAR is that in routine driving, I can sometimes be caught off guard and not paying close attention to the threats about. My wife could also be driving and she generally doesn't pay attention to such things.

Getting a database preloaded, I agree, would be more useful and, of course, that the real promise of this new technology.

In so far as sensitivity, I would certainly expect this to have been well resolved prior to hitting production (along with any other tweaks/refinements)...And it wasn't off by that much.

Veil Guy 8)

Sounds awesome..Should be receiving mine from Escort within a couple of weeks...Can't wait :D

Very nice review.......

Would you say that the 9500i has less tendency to false to POP
then the X50. I know the X50 has some major issues
with POP.

Orbital75,

I don't think I have had one false POP alert yet.

I have gone between having POP enabled and POP disabled for performance comparison purposes.

I'll keep an eye on it and follow-up with you.

Veil Guy 8)

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Hot off the presses for the RD.NET members!

Escort Passport 9500i Review

This is one seriously cool detector.

Enjoy!

Veil Guy 8)

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Have you had any problems acquiring/holding SAT (GPS) signal in your experience???

Yes a couple of days now.

One day's experience reported in [updated] write-up - very cloudy.
The next day's experience not reported [yesterday] in write-up - partly cloudy.

Veil Guy 8)

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Orbital75,

I don't think I have had one false POP alert yet.

I have gone between having POP enabled and POP disabled for performance comparison purposes.

I'll keep an eye on it and follow-up with you.

Veil Guy 8)

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Thanks.... I look forward to your finds.

The new 9500i looks like a great detector
that just may change a lot of other manufacturers
models as well. I would say this is defently revolutionary
and will change the high end detector market.

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Originally Posted by The Veil Guy

Orbital75,

I don't think I have had one false POP alert yet.

I have gone between having POP enabled and POP disabled for performance comparison purposes.

I'll keep an eye on it and follow-up with you.

Veil Guy 8)

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Thanks.... I look forward to your finds.

The new 9500i looks like a great detector
that just may change a lot of other manufacturers
models as well. I would say this is defently revolutionary
and will change the high end detector market.

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We all need to thank Uniden because they paved the way for this technology to be used in a radar detector. I am curious to see how the 9500i will do. There are some tough tests that it must pass first though before I am fully on board

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Originally Posted by happya$$

Bob,

When you lock out a false signal and say a cop is about 1/4 of mile farher down operating the same band that you locked out does the 9500i still alert to that band?

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From reviews I have read on the 9500, when you mark a false alert the 9500 of course remembers the location using the GPS, but it also remembers the radar frequency of the false alert.

A police radar unit in the same location would not likely have the same frequency of the offending "False" alert. The 9500 would will still warn you about the presence of a "New" signal at that location.