9500i Round 2...

[statusquo]

I've gotten good result so far.

Two days ago near flatlands of Marysville, CA I got a good two-three mile range on Ka band. It started out with two bars, then it did progress up as he approached (he left it on the entire time). I just wish it was more linear.

In Quincy, CA I also got a Ka alert on Main Street. There is a CHP office along that road. Soon I got to two parked patrol cars were sitting in the office driveway with no one around. It picked up two bars of Ka signals from parked CHP cars? Very odd, but I always seem to get a weak Ka signal around CHP cars on the older x50 as well, especially the front of their cars.

[Yokhannan]

Two days ago near flatlands of Marysville, CA I got a good two-three mile range on Ka band. It started out with two bars, then it did progress up as he approached (he left it on the entire time). I just wish it was more linear.

That's better than I got through that region..... I got about 0.8 on my 9500i. Not to troll this... but on my last trip down there, just before ummm... Kettleman City (a must stop for the in-n-out!!) I got a 5.1 notice from my V1. At first I was like... wtf? It peep'ed once or twice, went quiet for about a mile, than all of a sudden it pegged from a LEO coming the other way. Again, not meant to troll... just tell a story.

My best-ever with the 9500i is a wee-bit over two miles.

[napster4u]

I was cruising down a three lane hwy friday and had my bel sti and 9500i placed on the sheild. First the STi POP came screaming on then about 15 seconds later the STi Laser screamed..... NOT one signal from the 9500i. Not one... unbelievable. POP then LASER and nothing from the 9500i. I beleive the 9500i is to high tech for it's own good. It's to busy keeping out the unwanted signals and misses the needed ones. Sent it back today. STi is the BEST on the Market. PERIOD. Now on to jammers.

[thestaton]

I was cruising down a three lane hwy friday and had my bel sti and 9500i placed on the sheild. First the STi POP came screaming on then about 15 seconds later the STi Laser screamed..... NOT one signal from the 9500i. Not one... unbelievable. POP then LASER and nothing from the 9500i. I beleive the 9500i is to high tech for it's own good. It's to busy keeping out the unwanted signals and misses the needed ones. Sent it back today. STi is the BEST on the Market. PERIOD. Now on to jammers.

i'm sorry your misinformed. you shouldn't even have pop turned ON because it will cause any detector to false to it. the 9500i did not alert to pop because IT's NOT USED.

My guess would be that since you where running both detectors at once the 9500i probably caused the pop false in the first place.

As per laser they are both great at detecting it. Where you able to visually see an officer running laser? If not it was probably another false alert the 9500i correctly filtered out.

[napster4u]

Yes, actually there was a Sheriff Helicopter and 3 sheiffs in the area. the POP from the Helicopter came first then the sheriffs laser. Setting right on the corner of the main intersection. So I figured that if the POP/Laser is not exactly pointed at your car... the 9500i does not pick it up. The STi was going crazy. Oh well. I'm happy I had both for this accurance. Just reassued me.

I was cruising down a three lane hwy friday and had my bel sti and 9500i placed on the sheild. First the STi POP came screaming on then about 15 seconds later the STi Laser screamed..... NOT one signal from the 9500i. Not one... unbelievable. POP then LASER and nothing from the 9500i. I beleive the 9500i is to high tech for it's own good. It's to busy keeping out the unwanted signals and misses the needed ones. Sent it back today. STi is the BEST on the Market. PERIOD. Now on to jammers.

i'm sorry your misinformed. you shouldn't even have pop turned ON because it will cause any detector to false to it. the 9500i did not alert to pop because IT's NOT USED.

My guess would be that since you where running both detectors at once the 9500i probably caused the pop false in the first place.

As per laser they are both great at detecting it. Where you able to visually see an officer running laser? If not it was probably another false alert the 9500i correctly filtered out.

[thestaton]

*sigh*... please trust me on this, you where not hit with pop. it was a false more than likely caused by the 9500i. it sounds to me like they where searching for a stolen car. did you see an actual Laser Gun being used? because guess what if the sti goes off to laser the 9500i would as well.

i'm low on sleep and your killing my patience.

Yes, actually there was a Sheriff Helicopter and 3 sheiffs in the area. the POP from the Helicopter came first then the sheriffs laser. Setting right on the corner of the main intersection. So I figured that if the POP/Laser is not exactly pointed at your car... the 9500i does not pick it up. The STi was going crazy. Oh well. I'm happy I had both for this accurance. Just reassued me.

I was cruising down a three lane hwy friday and had my bel sti and 9500i placed on the sheild. First the STi POP came screaming on then about 15 seconds later the STi Laser screamed..... NOT one signal from the 9500i. Not one... unbelievable. POP then LASER and nothing from the 9500i. I beleive the 9500i is to high tech for it's own good. It's to busy keeping out the unwanted signals and misses the needed ones. Sent it back today. STi is the BEST on the Market. PERIOD. Now on to jammers.

i'm sorry your misinformed. you shouldn't even have pop turned ON because it will cause any detector to false to it. the 9500i did not alert to pop because IT's NOT USED.

My guess would be that since you where running both detectors at once the 9500i probably caused the pop false in the first place.

As per laser they are both great at detecting it. Where you able to visually see an officer running laser? If not it was probably another false alert the 9500i correctly filtered out.

[goodsignal]

You need turn on your POP in your 9500i before you get an alert.I got once,thought that was a leaky RD.

[<<JAZZY>>]

You need turn on your POP in your 9500i before you get an alert.I got once,thought that was a leaky RD.

:?

[Dondebob]

There is a K band speed sign in my area, and I ran at it with my 9500, getting exactly the same distance as I did from my X50. They both picked up the sign as I went around the turn (the sign is around a slight left then at the top of a hill about 1.25 miles away).

I think the sensitivity is not drastically less than the X50, it's just a much QUIETER detector. The 9500 has about half the potency in it's ramp up than the X50. The audible blips are more spaced out, and it seems to me that there are only about 5 levels of audible change.

Perhaps because they are built on the same platform, users expected an experience similar to that of the X50, but they are obviously very different detectors. The 9500 is just much quieter. It's a very passenger-friendly detector, in my opinion. And perhaps I'm just advocating for the underdog, but my experience so far (about 400 miles) hasn't made me doubt it's ability to save me against a LEO.

This weekend I'm going to shoot over to my hometown, where a buddy of mine is a Marshall. I'm going to run my 9500 against another friends X50 and see how they preform. We're even going to take some video.

[TSi+WRX]

My guess would be that since you where running both detectors at once the 9500i probably caused the pop false in the first place.

Either that, or it falsed due to IO K/Ka, or it falsed to a leaky detector in the vincinity.

But regardless, the "test" was invalid due to the "two detectors at the same time" scenario.

...the POP from the Helicopter came first then the sheriffs laser.

^ Is POP, or any other form of RADAR/LIDAR enforcement from an airborne enforcer even possible? <---- :?: honest question.