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Bob, thanks for the review.
Can you tell us how many speedtraps this unit can hold? I have not seen anyone with a deffinate answer to this yet. I would like to know so I could put the White Vascar Blocks into the detector if I was to get it. Yet I would not want to fill the detector up with them.
Also how many false signals can the 9500i block untill it's full?
As far as GPS loosing signal, I mentioned this, I knew it would happen as it does with all GPS devices.
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My GPS devices rarely if ever loose signal. I don't feel that is common at all.Originally Posted by StlouisX50
Does your GPS have an outside antenna?My GPS devices rarely if ever loose signal. I don't feel that is common at all.
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I read somewhere that it is 5000...
The 9500i and the Garmin C320 do not have outside or external antennas. The TL's navigation does.Does your GPS have an outside antenna?My GPS devices rarely if ever loose signal. I don't feel that is common at all.
I would bet that the GPS with the outside antenna would not drop GPS tracking in Cloudy, Heavy Foliage, Snow ect. as much as the ones without one though.
I believe it all depends on your altitude too.
When I had 2 GPS units here in Missouri I would drop a GPS signal if it was cloudy, snowing or raining. However when I took trips to other states I could see in the settings mode how much stronger the GPS signal was.
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I have Tom Tom and it occasionally loses GPS signals. Same was true of Navalert (when I had it). Both use internal antennas, although Tom Tom offers an external/internal (windshield) antenna. I understand the 9500i uses a different/more efficient style of satellite reception. Evidently there are two different kinds and one is more efficient than the other.
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All depends on how many GPS sats it receives too. Some GPS's don't pickup all GPS sats for some reason.
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I've owned about 7 or 8 GPS units in the past several years.
The SiRFstar III chip that began showing up around last summer (about the size of a nickel with antenna) is far faster and has the ability to get a signal even inside my house where the older units would not. Works far better in dense foilage and overcast conditions as well.
The chip is used in Microsoft's Streets & Trips 2007 program if you get it with their Pharo's GPS unit. It's also in the Garmin Zumo unit for motorcycles and, I believe, their Nuvi line(?).
It used to be that it took 20 minutes for the older Garmin units to intialize to a new location in the U.S. from the Taiwan plant. Now it's seconds with the new chip. More stuff on this fantastic chip is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiRFstar_III
I'm amazed the Escort put this chip in their unit so quick. It's not a cheap chip. Their teaming with Garmin must have had something to do with it for several years. They've integrated it very well, enough so that Popular Mechanics gave it their Editor's Choice Award for outstanding achievement in new product design and innovation at the Las Vegas CES show.
In essense, "It is like the second coming of Jesus Christ" (taken from those who cannot tolerate anything other than some other obsolete brand technology that isn't quiet!).
statusquo: Thanks for the details on that chip. Knew someone had details about it. HEY!! You DO realize that there is a surcharge on using my quotes in your sig line
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