Redline First Impressions
Well I received my Redline last Wednesday and have been really impressed with it so far. My first days I had no real radar encounters (always seems to happen when getting a new rd) but driving past the police station they were kind enough to leave their radars on and I could confirm using the spec display that my Twp is using34.7 Ka to replace the age old X. I have two videos I took of the detectors vs a K band speed trailer in heavy trees and a bend that I will upload when I have time. I made two seperate runs in the same conditions with the detectors in the same position. I got .4 miles out of both detectors which isn't great but its a challenging course.
The Redline had seemed to be performing the same as the V1 on the false alarm door openers and by Saturday I was kind of worried that I bought into the Redline hype when in fact it wasn't much better than the V1. Then came Sunday, the 4th, my gf asked me to take her to Wildwood NJ for the night which is about 60 miles from my house. I ran the Redline and had my first real speed trap. It was constant on X that I had 2.5 miles of warning; I was truely impressed. On the way home I had two more X encounters and a Ka all were picked up miles ahead.
Finally last night on a local 4 lane divided highway a cop was running saftey in a construction zone and left the Ka gun C/O with the gun facing me. I took a few runs and the Redline beat the V1 by quite a bit. The course included down a slight hill and then back up to where the radar source was. The Redline picked it up 1.4 miles away with a smooth ramp up. The V1 initially alerted at 1 mile and didnt lock on until .7 miles. The Redline really impressed me there. Again I did not run both detectors at the same time.
I haven't had too much of an issue with the ramp up yet. I think the issue lies more in the I/O than the C/O. X band is as smooth as my V1 and I haven't had a real K threat so I can't comment on that. Ka I can see the problem; with constant on Ka rarely comes on at just one dot it likes 2 or 3 than readjusts down to one. I can tell then with I/O it will jump ahead and thats why it sounds like you just got nailed.
All in all so far I really like the detector and have been pleased with the purchase.
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Couldn't have said it better myself as I have been very pleased:D
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dtraill27
Well I received my Redline last Wednesday and have been really impressed with it so far. My first days I had no real radar encounters (always seems to happen when getting a new rd) but driving past the police station they were kind enough to leave their radars on and I could confirm using the spec display that my Twp is using34.7 Ka to replace the age old X. I have two videos I took of the detectors vs a K band speed trailer in heavy trees and a bend that I will upload when I have time. I made two seperate runs in the same conditions with the detectors in the same position. I got .4 miles out of both detectors which isn't great but its a challenging course.
The Redline had seemed to be performing the same as the V1 on the false alarm door openers and by Saturday I was kind of worried that I bought into the Redline hype when in fact it wasn't much better than the V1. Then came Sunday, the 4th, my gf asked me to take her to Wildwood for the night which is about 60 miles from my house. I ran the Redline and had my first real speed trap. It was constant on X that I had 2.5 miles of warning; I was truely impressed. On the way home I had two more X encounters and a Ka all were picked up miles ahead.
Finally last night on a local 4 lane divided highway a cop was running saftey and left the Ka gun C/O with the gun facing me. I took a few runs and the Redline beat the V1 by quite a bit. The course included down a slight hill and then back up to where the radar source was. The Redline picked it up 1.4 miles away with a smooth ramp up. The V1 initially alerted at 1 mile and didnt lock on until .7 miles. The Redline really impressed me there. Again I did not run both detectors at the same time.
I haven't had too much of an issue with the ramp up yet. I think the issue lies more in the I/O than the C/O. X band is as smooth as my V1 and I haven't had a real K threat so I can't comment on that. Ka I can see the problem; with constant on Ka rarely comes on at just one dot it likes 2 or 3 than readjusts down to one. I can tell then with I/O it will jump ahead and thats why it sounds like you just got nailed.
All in all so far I really like the detector and have been pleased with the purchase.
Awesome review and I'm glad that you said this. I know that the Redline is a good choice I went with the Redline and haven't regretted it. There are going to be some condition that I don't understand why some detection is worst but all in all it will average out better.
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Nice review. The RedLine is a really great RD. I have even noticed it detecting 34.7 at the same distance as my V1 with KA guard off.
Auto mode filters rely well too.
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Good review, the Redline is a great RD.
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I had a little disappointment today. Traveling a street that I drive a lot I see a cop in a parking lot they sit in a lot. Our local LE uses K band and I get one small warning maybe 2 indicator lights, if I had been playing the radio loud and not paying attention, I think they would have been a ticket. He was using I/O so I am sure that was part of it.
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Hodogs
I had a little disappointment today. Traveling a street that I drive a lot I see a cop in a parking lot they sit in a lot. Our local LE uses K band and I get one small warning maybe 2 indicator lights, if I had been playing the radio loud and not paying attention, I think they would have been a ticket. He was using I/O so I am sure that was part of it.
Could have been one of the dreaded falcon handhelds
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Falcon handhelds yep, radar detector don't make up invinceable thats why we have to use ours eyes also.
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dtraill27
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Originally Posted by
Hodogs
I had a little disappointment today. Traveling a street that I drive a lot I see a cop in a parking lot they sit in a lot. Our local LE uses K band and I get one small warning maybe 2 indicator lights, if I had been playing the radio loud and not paying attention, I think they would have been a ticket. He was using I/O so I am sure that was part of it.
Could have been one of the dreaded falcon handhelds
Nah, it was a dash mount.
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I wonder how Redline, V1 and 9500ix measure up against each other in NJ?
