x50 range problem

hey guys i'm an x50 red owner,,,i picked this radar up at best buy for 299...today me and my friend went to the beach and we decided to use my radar in his car ( he has a silver bullet himself) i noticed on my Ka band it doesn't pickup until your like 100 ft away from the highway patrol...i have been reading around and everyones x50 has been pickingup at a longer distance on Ka band.....on the way back we had both of the radars on and my x50 kept giving false strong Ka signals and X signals....and whenever we unpluged the silverbullet it would stop doing that. what could be the problem???? and by the was on the range issue with Ka band that has happend to me more than 3 times i see the highway partrol before x50 pix it up.....do you guys think there is something wrong with my radar?? i bought it brand new..

well you cannot run more than 1 radar detector at the same time. they both interfere with each other. or i should say the silver bullet leaks out signals that the x50 picks up and this is why it beeps. as for the police officers does ur x 50 gradually pick up the highway patrol or does it go full blast when it picks it up??? also be sure it is not a conviently placed false alert.

like you said in Ka band i got an alret when i was running my x50 all alone(no sliver bullet) its went one dot 2 dots than full blast all of a sudden..... does the can the highway patrol adjust the signal strength or is it a constant strenght at all times??

Does your friends car have metallic tint?

what do you mean by metalic tint??? like if the tint's color is metalic....cuz i heared that some tints have that metalic property...but his is just plain black tint nothing shiny 5% back and 35% in front.

LEO could be using Ka instant-on... meaning you get the smaller hits from farther away as he pops other targets and the full alert as you get closer to him. I have a X50 Blue from Best Buy and I never had any problems with it in the 6 months that Ive had it.

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Originally Posted by ramil

hey guys i'm an x50 red owner,,,i picked this radar up at best buy for 299...today me and my friend went to the beach and we decided to use my radar in his car ( he has a silver bullet himself) i noticed on my Ka band it doesn't pickup until your like 100 ft away from the highway patrol...i have been reading around and everyones x50 has been pickingup at a longer distance on Ka band.....on the way back we had both of the radars on and my x50 kept giving false strong Ka signals and X signals....and whenever we unpluged the silverbullet it would stop doing that. what could be the problem???? and by the was on the range issue with Ka band that has happend to me more than 3 times i see the highway partrol before x50 pix it up.....do you guys think there is something wrong with my radar?? i bought it brand new..

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I know exactly what you are talking about with the Ka detection on the X50. My X50 would either pick up Ka from an insane distance or just barely in time after you can already see the cop. This was my experiences with constant on Ka sources. I have never had that kind of inconsistentsy with Ka detection using my original 8500. I never could trust my X50 because of this and was never really happy with mine. It could be just my X50 and your X50 because a lot of people swear by the Ka range and state it is very consistent. I only find the X50's Ka detection consistent if the Ka source is pointed towards the X50 and the terrain is mostly flat.

I have used both the X50 and original 8500 extensively. I would bet money that the orignal 8500 beats the X50 in Ka detection everytime when you have hills, trees, curves, other obstacles, or all that I just listed in your way. Just take a look at the GOL radar test with a hill, trees and a curve. http://www.guysoflidar.com/radar-det...ctor-test.html the orignal 8500 beat the X50 by 411 feet in the 35.5 Ka test.

This is why when people ask me if they should get a Bel RX65 or an Escort X50, I recommend they get the RX65.

Return that bad boy and get a V1 or an STI stealth says it rocks. 8)

I get wicked Ka reception with my X-50.
In B.C. Canada the cops for the most part run the radar gun on all the time, but their are some vetrens of the RCMP that like to cold fire in Ka, K, and even X bands. So it could be a possibility that u are getting cold fired on??

well, from what i've picked up from using my detector, my guess is the LEO had his front radars on, and as you pulled up, he saw you and tried with the rears..........either that on instant on like Arashi wrote.

Today on the way in from work I get a ka alert, look up and see a Plano Police Officer driving opposite of me with constant on ka less than .2 miles away.

Could have been bad conditions though. I havent been able to take my x50 on the highway yet. My 8500 performs better than to be expected in my truck with metallic tint.

I am curious to see if the x50 will let me down in my honda with no tint. I am going on a 350 mile trip in a few weeks.

The Texas DPS use constant on ka mostly and some constant on K.

I would like to say that I get great Ka reception from my X50. Just this past weekend I was taking a 139 mile road trip to Raleigh, NC and my x50 starting going off... I got a few chirps at first but then I started getting 3 or 4 bars..... 2.5 miles later my x50 is screaming and there's the State Trooper and the poor customer that got tapped by him. I honestly have to say I haven't had much experience with KA on hills and curves but on Flat highway the x50's Ka distance is superb. Now if we could only find some type of drone filter...... :P

My X50 saved my ass a ton of times driving from Cleveland to Atlanta. I owned the KA band thanks to a few rabbits (or crash test dummies as we like to call 'em). I got great forewarn distance.

I was camping on the weekend that just passed
and on my way home i was just barley touching the road when i say a red and blue flashing infornt of me and i slowed down quick then my detector said K band and some 24.??? frequency i was almost on top of the cop car. as i passed him the K reading stayed strong for a long way down the road. I figured he only had the gun fireing forward perhaps this is what is happen to u

Thats weird, this past weekend i got saved on my roadtrip from boston to burlington vermont. Once i got on 89 i ran into lots of speed traps all on the opposite side of the highway. But once i got near vermont my Ka wnt off slowly, i slowed down from 80 to 65 and sure enough there was a trooper hidden in a median at a 45 degree angle facing me, it started to beep a good half mile to 3/4 of a mile before i hit him, i drive a black scion Tc and my detector mounted directly in the middle. And then yesterday on the connector i had K band go off with the local cops a good 3/4 of a mile before i saw him.

yeah i had a good test of my K band today i was a good mile behind the LEO and my detector stared to go off the best part was that i was going the same directon of him

Your never supposed to hookup two detectors at once!! Reason Being that the way a detector works is it has a osculator inside to scan the freqencies to pick up xband kband kaband etc... this basicly works as a scanner handheld etc... looking for somebody transmitting on that frequencey so all a detector basicly is, is a golorified freq scanner... so when you hook up two scanners at once its like taking two hand held 2 way walkie talkies and keying them up right next to each other they go balistic typical reaction because a radar detector actually leaks energy that the other detector will pick up and then false on anyband over and over and over again. This is how you get picked up by vg2 and spectre 1 2 3 .. all they have to do is look for that leakage from your detector and they can detect you and that you have a detector....which is why the bel sti is the sh@t!!!! Because the bel sti is the only detector on the planet that i know of that does not leak emissions and in fact the fcc has come down on radar detector companies saying that they would like them to go interferce free of leakage but hey thats better for us the consumer we won't be setting of radar detector detector's such as the vg2 and the spectre 1,2,3 anymore so im fine with it ... although it might make the detector cost considerably more!!

F117 stealth fighter and bomber right on boys!! Become INVISIBLE AS RADAR ROY SAYS!!!!!!!!

I have the same problem. I bought my X50 a couple of weeks ago (online). It came packaged as it was absolutely new (though I have no way to know). I drive a Nissan Titan, smoke grey. The X50 is mounted midwindshield, under the mirror. Everytime I had CHP with radar on, I was almost on top of them. Barely had time to slow down. Was K/Ka bands. I don't know if it is the model, or is my radar detedtor defective. I would talk with the vendor, but I'd like to have your opinion before I do that so I'll be a bit informed
Thanks