9500i alert in known false area...

**9500ier** · 11-22-2007, 06:50 PM

I am still not sure exactly what happens when there is a valid alert in a known false area. I have one area that sometimes gives K and sometimes does not and when the K goes off I do not know if its a valid K or not and it shows the Known X that is there also. I want to be sure this is not just a lapse in the GPS lock. I have not yet received a known police radar in an exact area that I know to be locked out.

My question is, in this case: does the 9500i just show the one band that is new and not locked?... or (what I expect) does it show all bands present at that time?

Thanks guys (if you know)

**KnightHawk** · 11-23-2007, 06:10 AM

If the police frequency radar gun in K band is close to the the auto door sensor's frequency K band, the police radar will also be muted. You will never know. This is true with X band as well.

My advice is only to lock out areas where use of police radar is not feasible or applicable. Most of the time when you use A mode, it will take care of the false radar source without the lockout..

For a known K band false alert that goes off and sometimes not, consider the time when the store is closed. Auto door openers are shut off when they are close and turned on when the store is open.

**CJR238** · 11-23-2007, 07:37 AM

If your in Expert mode using it with TrueLock and you’re at a previously locked out point and you receive a new/different signal the 9500I will bypass the lock out and show all of the current signals it is receiving with a verbal verification of "Multiple frequencies detected".

It’s alerting you to the new signal anyway so why not tell you everything. :wink:

It may be a K band door opener around that area. I wouldn’t lock it out until you find the source.

**djrams80** · 11-23-2007, 08:36 AM

If there is police radar at the same spot as a locked out signal, it almost surely be detectable outside the 0.1 mile lockout radius. If your 9500i has less that 0.1 miles detection of police radar, it probably already has a problem, unless the LEO is using I/O. Besides that, the odds of the police radar being used in the same spot is the same frequency as the door are highly improbable. The whole point of locking out known falses is to have a detector that when it detects a radar signal, it's probably the police.

**KnightHawk** · 11-23-2007, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by djrams80

If there is police radar at the same spot as a locked out signal, it almost surely be detectable outside the 0.1 mile lockout radius. If your 9500i has less that 0.1 miles detection of police radar, it probably already has a problem, unless the LEO is using I/O. Besides that, the odds of the police radar being used in the same spot is the same frequency as the door are highly improbable. The whole point of locking out known falses is to have a detector that when it detects a radar signal, it's probably the police.

I think it is greater than 0.1 mile as far as lock out area is concern.

**CJR238** · 11-23-2007, 10:20 AM

The 9500i records signals for a very short time/distance, approximately 1/10 to 1/4 of a mile depending on how many falses there are after you lock out the location.

For example:
If icon has stopped spinning at 1/10im going North from where you locked out, the 9500I will keep monitoring for falses for 1/10mi, if it doesn’t receive any more falses your lock out will be 2/10mi (1/10mi North direction and 1/10mi South direction from lock out center).

If icon has stopped spinning at 2/10im going North from where you locked out, the 9500I will keep monitoring for falses for 1/10mi, if it doesn’t receive any more falses your lock out will be 4/10mi (2/10mi North direction and 2/10mi South direction from lock out center).

**djrams80** · 11-23-2007, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by Azonehits

Originally Posted by djrams80

If there is police radar at the same spot as a locked out signal, it almost surely be detectable outside the 0.1 mile lockout radius. If your 9500i has less that 0.1 miles detection of police radar, it probably already has a problem, unless the LEO is using I/O. Besides that, the odds of the police radar being used in the same spot is the same frequency as the door are highly improbable. The whole point of locking out known falses is to have a detector that when it detects a radar signal, it's probably the police.

I think it is greater than 0.1 mile as far as lock out area is concern.

Whether it's 0.1 miles or 0.2 miles, the point still stands. This RD's range should be much greater than either distance. I have not read any complaints on this board about how a locked out signal cost someone a ticket. This lockout technology seems very useful. My woman cannot stand the falses. I have to listen to her complain every time I drive by a Vons or Rite-Aid or something. I cannot wait for Escort to come out with this technology in a remote unit. Supposedly, it's on the way.

**CJR238** · 11-23-2007, 11:58 AM

X2, im waiting for Escort to come out with a Lock out mute button for my wife.

**KnightHawk** · 11-23-2007, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by djrams80

Whether it's 0.1 miles or 0.2 miles, the point still stands. This RD's range should be much greater than either distance

Not true all the time. LEO's don't use constant on all the time and they don't stay in that location all the time.

I have not read any complaints on this board about how a locked out signal cost someone a ticket.

How many 9500i users are there anyway in this forum? Members who use it in this forum have enough common sense to read what's been posted and know what to do with it in the first place minimizing this situation.

This lockout technology seems very useful.

It is when used wisely. :wink:

**iresist** · 11-25-2007, 10:21 PM

I already had some automatic doors locked out at a shopping center that I go by everyday. Then one day, I see this speed trailer in front of a play ground on the street along side of the shopping center, maybe about .25 mile down from the shopping center and facing back toward the center. When I go by the shopping center on the main road I get a spinning sat icon as expected... but when I turn right on the side road where the speed trailer is, I can go all the way down to the trailer and all I get is a spinning sat icon! Very upsetting. :shock: If I come from the other direction and approach the back of the speed trailer first I get a proper reponse from the trailer. I don't think I'm going to be using the TruLock feature very much.