Vintage Escort Detection

**RapidTransitSystem** · 01-12-2006, 05:22 AM

So I'm curious how the detectors of yesteryear under the tutelage of Mike V would fare against the detectors of today. Like the Passport 1000, with its X and K+laser detection only. Thing looks like a tank.

What model was the last model designed by Mike V of the Escort/Passport line?

**billgerr** · 01-12-2006, 05:39 AM

The GOLs may address this at the end of the month:

http://www.radardetector.net/viewtop...280&highlight=

Mike V and others have demonstrated that the original CMI Passport and DSP were perhaps the best X/K detectors of all time. My experience has been similar, although the BEL 900 detectors behave as well as a Passport (and a V1) in my tests for X-Band. The X-50 I sampled was measurably less sensitive to X-Band, both in response time and initial alarm. Escort has admitted that the X-50 has de-emphasized X-Band performance, which is not a good thing for NJ--the land of K-55s.

Bill

**jimbonzzz** · 01-12-2006, 05:43 AM

Also, the Passport 1000 was only a laser detector, it didn't detect radar at all. And as far as that one being built like a tank, I don't really see that because it had a plastic case unlike the radar detectors of that time.

Mike V left the company before the Passports were available. But, I am sure they contained a lot of Mike's development work and ideas.

Jim