HEY! You guys hijacked my thread!!!!! :evil:
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HEY! You guys hijacked my thread!!!!! :evil:
Looks like we did, but just a little. :wink: The 9500ci is the end answer to your thread. Maximum sensitivity, quiet, with little to no falses. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by rose1
Got to be maximum because in low radar scattering situations like gatso or multanova radars even maximum sensitivity is sometimes not enough, even more so when theres large numbers of high sided vehicles which block radar and reduce trap detection further...
Thats why extreme sensitivity means nothing in a lab, it's only when you do real world testing you find out it's not good enough.
Rather like taking you micro hifi outside, seems loud inside the house but outside the house with traffic noise etc it becomes bearly hearable.
The Bels have that nice auto muting, as well as the audio mute feature, so you dont' have to listen to all that racket.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdong
still, I was getting tired of reaching for the RD to mute it, and I was getting sloppy about slowing down, with all the non-police radar signals crying wolf all the time.
Then, I got the Cheetah mirror, with it's handy city mute feature. In this mode, you get one verbal warning to say "K band", or what ever. The RD keeps flashing away, but the ride is quiet.
Very nice feature.
You can also set it not to bother telling you of radar if you are below a chosen target speed. That took care of all the X and K band racket down town, and around shopping malls where there are tons of signals, but the driving is usually slow going. Voila! Almost complete silence driving in these highly radar saturated zones.
When there's "high sided vehicles" around you don't even need a detector, your succesfully in cloak mode, radar signature masked by the larger vehicles as long as your observable speed is within reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by laserblaster
Don't think of it that way, think of it as we just enhanced it a little. Look how popular its become now, already 4 pages deep. Why that in itself is going to earn you some notoriety and possibly a nomination at the 2008 RD.net awards ceremony in the Fall.Quote:
Originally Posted by rose1
Im waiting for someone to use GPS to lock out signal by strength on a certain band, and not the band itself. That will be the perfect detector.
Here's a fantasy.
Combine GPS-ability of the 9500 AND the tech (frequency recognition) of many of the Bels with the directional capability of the Valentine, then you'd have an RD that could filter out "false alarms" that are recognized by the combination of location/frequency/direction from which signal comes. That way, if any new threats in an area come up, they won't be "filtered" as well.
Not that I imagine police are so concerned about RD's that they go to the trouble to catch us out in areas of high interference from non-police radar... But it would maximize situation awareness.
Sounds good to me. ThanksQuote:
Originally Posted by Ovencleaner