K alert at 24.300 GHz?

Last night I had a brief K alert, probably a false, on my X50 and the Spec display showed 24.300. I thought this was odd since the upper limit of the K band is 24.250 GHz.

I bet this is a similar situation to the 33.200 Ka false that has been reported, and I've also seen. Ka band's lower limit is 33.4.

Either Escort uses a wide guard band, at least +/- 50 MHz on K and +/- 200 MHz on Ka, or certain false signals (LO sweep from Crapras?) confuses the frequency display. I would tend to think the latter.

What do the experts (Jimbonzzz) think?

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Originally Posted by kpatz

Either Escort uses a wide guard band, at least +/- 50 MHz on K and +/- 200 MHz on Ka, or certain false signals (LO sweep from Crapras?) confuses the frequency display. I would tend to think the latter.

What do the experts (Jimbonzzz) think?

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Both scenarios sound reasonable to me. Might be a combination of factors.

Jim

Could be the margin (guard band) that is built into the detector. However my X50 (rev 5) favors the low side, which is the opposite from what you observed. My X50 when bench tested detects 24.020Ghz to 24.255Ghz while displaying 24.050 and 24.250 on the display in Spec mode. So the window of detection on mine is +5/-30 outside of the police K-Band. However the display never goes above 24.250 or below 24.050 no matter what I feed it. I have tested at different ambient temperatures, and also when it was brand new and after one self-cal experience. The K-band frequency reception window has remained relatively unchanged. And I have verified my source frequency accuracy using a second freq counter from a different manufacturer.

Manufacturing/calibration differences in your X50 perhaps ?