Looking for another one.

Its been about three years since I been on this site last detector I had was the Pro 78SE. Got a job earlier this year delivering for a local business after a 7 month lay off. Finally caught up with bills and looking at detectors again. I drive 12 miles one way to work from the country to the city. While at work I drive roughly 100 miles through town and back roads.

Been reading up on all the changes over the past couple years and am a little overwhelmed. I see a lot of I/O and QT around here and I know the escort/Bel aren't the greatest at picking it up. I always wanted a V1 but I don't know if my girlfriend could handle how chatty they are and can't see myself paying the extra $$ just for it to mute at low speeds. And she'd kill me paying for the redline then tossing more money into escort live. The 9500ix is my top pick right now but worried about QT and I/O and I know it had a lot of problems locking out Leos when it first came out. I'm open to pretty much anything just overloaded right now.

Hey bro. Nice to hear you got back on your feet. I would definitely recommend the V1. It can be kinda chatty at times. But if you program it, there shouldn't be too much noise and your girlfriend will thank you. I understand you live in NE Florida. They use KA and K as well a laser from my experience up there. In Miami, it's strictly Laser and KA. I'll help you out and give you a programming solution to reduce the chattiness.

Reduce Chattiness: Since your in Florida, turn off X Band. LEOs don't use it. Program your detector to automute for various K band detection scenarios. I programmed my V1 for 30 secs automute, stay muted on four lights at onset, stay muted on six lights, and mute rear k band radar. What I would suggest is that you run in Little L Advanced Logic Mode in the city and A (All Bogeys Mode) on the highway. Little L Mode will just automute the sound of the radar bands being picked up for a short period of time. A Mode will alert you of everything except X because you have it turned off. You may not want to mute rear K band in northern Florida, but that how I do it down south. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Hey bro. Nice to hear you got back on your feet. I would definitely recommend the V1. It can be kinda chatty at times. But if you program it, there shouldn't be too much noise and your girlfriend will thank you. I understand you live in NE Florida. They use KA and K as well a laser from my experience up there. In Miami, it's strictly Laser and KA. I'll help you out and give you a programming solution to reduce the chattiness.

Reduce Chattiness: Since your in Florida, turn off X Band. LEOs don't use it. Program your detector to automute for various K band detection scenarios. I programmed my V1 for 30 secs automute, stay muted on four lights at onset, stay muted on six lights, and mute rear k band radar. What I would suggest is that you run in Little L Advanced Logic Mode in the city and A (All Bogeys Mode) on the highway. Little L Mode will just automute the sound of the radar bands being picked up for a short period of time. A Mode will alert you of everything except X because you have it turned off. You may not want to mute rear K band in northern Florida, but that how I do it down south. Let me know if you have any other questions.

More and more people come on the forum panicking about I/O and Q/T. The thing is: If you travel on freeways and there is a decent amount of traffic, you are just about garenteed to pick up something unless you meet a really really good I/O LEO and they are extremely rare.

Explanation: On freeways with decent traffic, the LEO needs to leave the beam on a few more seconds to make sure hes got the right target. They can't do that with a .05 sec burst or even 1 sec burst. It needs to be at the very least 2 or 3 sec. Belscort will detect that no problem.

LEOs think that by using Q/T with a 3 sec. burst, they will defeat the detectors. Obviously wrong. Having said that, the really good LEOs, knows how this work and will clock maybe 1 car out of 20. They sit there for a few minutes, clock most vehicles, get their visual estimation up to speed and they can stay there all day without using radar and call the speeds very accurately. When they see a vehicle that is travelling up to their tolerence, they I/O him and he is toast.

Almost all youtube video about I/O will show you the LEOs that are not great at this and Q/T every 2nd car.

Bottom line is, the V1 is obviously a killer when it comes to I/O, Q/T but how often will this feature alone save you? I am thinking maybe once a year if that. I would personalty still get the V1 because it is as good as the STiR Plus with a little less range even with Ka guard ON. You can do like the other guy was saying and use the mute feature.

Edit: Most people jump 5 feet in the air when you tell them that a LEO can visually estimate a speed. I like to use this analogy: An airplane pilot can probably have a rough idea at the altitude he is at without looking at his instruments because he is doing it day in and day out. Same thing for speed measurement. Obviously the general public can't do it because they don't practice it.

I probably will stick with the v1 its also $100 cheaper but I like the idea of upgrading over the internet as well. I'm on US1 90% of the day and take a road trip to Tennessee usually twice a year and going through Georgia the cops love to hide in the trees on the side. My old whistler would alert but only once I was next to them it didn't seem to good at picking up scatter. Are there any new radars about to come out other than the Axis? Would like to order at the end of the month but if something is coming out in a few months it might be better to wait.

My phone is my only source of internet right now live to far in the woods to get internets its kinda hard to research.


Found a brand new still packaged 955 for $100 and $80 for a 8500 non x50 locally