Truelocks Worst nightmare

**focalcivic** · 11-12-2008, 08:05 AM

I was driving to work, and started to approach an known X false. I noticed in the V1 3 bogeys, typically I get 2. As approached in the lot of were 2 cops sitting there. I know this township uses X band and they use Ka. I wonder if the X would of been locked out and if the cop was indeed running his X a person would of been nailed?

**djrams80** · 11-12-2008, 08:43 AM

Truelock would almost certainly not cost someone a ticket in this scenario. One of two things would have happened in this situation.

1. The LEO's X band radar signal is not within the same frequency block as the X band false alert(s). In this case, the 9500 series RD would give the user a normal "LEO running X band radar" alert in an area that the user probably never gets an alert due to Truelock.

2. The LEO's X band radar signal is within the same frequency block as the X band false alert(s). In this scenario, the X band signal would be much stronger than the X band false alert. So, the 9500 series RD would detect the signal far outside the Truelock area and alert the driver as normal until the user reached the Truelock radius, then go silent.

Either scenario, the 9500 series RD user should have slowed down in plenty of time.

**focalcivic** · 11-12-2008, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by djrams80

Truelock would almost certainly not cost someone a ticket in this scenario. One of two things would have happened in this situation.

2. The LEO's X band radar signal is within the same frequency block as the X band false alert(s). In this scenario, the X band signal would be much stronger than the X band false alert. So, the 9500 series RD would detect the signal far outside the Truelock area and alert the driver as normal until the user reached the Truelock radius, then go silent.

Either scenario, the 9500 series RD user should have slowed down in plenty of time.

I can say this X false it typically very strong.

**djrams80** · 11-12-2008, 09:02 AM

Originally Posted by focalcivic

I can say this X false it typically very strong.

Maybe so, but I highly doubt it would be anywhere near as strong as a LEO's X band radar gun that is pointed directly down the road the car would be travelling on.

**AirMoore** · 11-12-2008, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by djrams80

Maybe so, but I highly doubt it would be anywhere near as strong as a LEO's X band radar gun that is pointed directly down the road the car would be travelling on.

x2.

**TSi+WRX** · 11-21-2008, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by djrams80

2. The LEO's X band radar signal is within the same frequency block as the X band false alert(s). In this scenario, the X band signal would be much stronger than the X band false alert. So, the 9500 series RD would detect the signal far outside the Truelock area and alert the driver as normal until the user reached the Truelock radius, then go silent.

Ideally and theoretically, yes, that should be the case.

But I've had just such lock-out instances.

[ And here, I think it's important to say that although the three guys above all know me very well, and know that what I report is not intended to be "negative" about TrueLock or Escort products, I think that it is important for me to re-state, to any newcomer who may be reading these Forums, that I do not count instances such as this as showing that, somehow, "TrueLock doesn't work." Rather, I see this as a simple technical limitation of the detectors, at this specific junction in time. Think of it as two dots, on a piece of paper, held so far from your face that you can only see one. Is that a fault of your eyes? - only in the sense that you could not "resolve" the two dots as being independent of each other.... would you do better if you looked at the paper, using some kind of optical scope?

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