9500 Repaired Warranty-Now Marked Speedtraps Don't Announce!

**TSi+WRX** · 01-21-2008, 07:16 AM

Originally Posted by Esoterica

I did get a single POP alert today and looked for a cop but didn't see one anywhere, there was a large group of cars heading the other way I thought maybe an unmarled could have been mixed in with them. It was just one POP and then nothing more. What was even stranger is that on my return trip past that same exact area but in the opposite direction 2 hours later I took a single bar Ka alert, that came and went just as quick as the POP did going the other way. Again I seen no cop around and its an area of highway I travel often and get no falses on, weird.

^ This sounds like a false-scenario.

However, it's rather strange that it can't be pinned-down to anything in-[particular. Strange indeed!

**CJR238** · 01-21-2008, 07:47 AM

I'm about to the point of just turning the stupid X band off completely, I've never seen a non false X band hit.

That’s one of the things I love with locking X band I don’t need to turn it off. I occasionally drive through areas that use X band and I don’t want to forget to turn it back on.

**TSi+WRX** · 01-21-2008, 09:56 AM

^ +1.

Here in Ohio - although I rarely road-trip anymore - X-band is still in-use, most infamously by our State Troopers. As-such, I still need X-band protection.

The LockOut feature of the 9500i allows me to not have to worry about constantly switching modes.

**Esoterica** · 01-21-2008, 12:29 PM

I occasionally drive through areas that use X band and I don’t want to forget to turn it back on.

I guess that's what I was wanting to hear, if anyone still used X Band anymore. So since it sounds like they do I'll leave it on, there are still a lot of little towns around that I haven't had a chance to take this to yet and they would likely be using old hand me down radar they bought cheap on eBay.

The 7 hour drive from Reno Nevada to Las vegas is a speed ticket horror story. It's mostly wasteland and 2 lane 75mph highway, but then it hits every little run down mining town along the way where they drop from 75 to 25 mph and the only way these towns survive at all is by all the speeding tickets they make off of this. If I thought the speeding ticket money was going towards building a bypass around these towns I'd let them write me tickets all day long, but more likely the money just goes to put new windows in the mobile homes they use for a town hall. It would not surprise me if they were using X band in these towns.

As far as that POP signal I got, it would be my first Ka false I've had, I thought maybe it was one of those Cobra's I was reading here about that are claimed to cause POP falses, but then when I got the Ka single quick hit coming back through that area 2 hours later I kind of ruled the likely hood of that out. Just drove through there today and got nothing like in that area in the past. Guess it just bugs me to leave a mystery hanging like that and I can suspect all I want but will never know for sure what it was.

**TSi+WRX** · 01-21-2008, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by Esoterica

Guess it just bugs me to leave a mystery hanging like that and I can suspect all I want but will never know for sure what it was.

Totally agreed. That kind of thing bothers me to no end, too.

**CJR238** · 01-21-2008, 12:50 PM

I know this one house down the street from me that set off KA occasionally but only when a beat up Chevy was there. Apparently he had a cobra and never turned it off.