Im a Class A driver in CA ... tickets suck x10 for me!!

[NickT916]

good advice and info, im waiting for my 9500xi and ill be looking for cops while testing the radar, maybe get a kick out of every time it goes off and i see a cop hiding, before he catches me accidentally speeding

[djrams80]

good advice and info, im waiting for my 9500xi and ill be looking for cops while testing the radar, maybe get a kick out of every time it goes off and i see a cop hiding, before he catches me accidentally speeding

OK, a couple of pet peeves:

1) The radar detector you have purchased is called a 9500ix, not a 9500xi. It is amazing how often this mistake happens around here.

2) This is a radar:



This is a radar detector:



What you have purchased is called a radar detector(RD for short), not a radar.

[NickT916]

good advice and info, im waiting for my 9500xi and ill be looking for cops while testing the radar, maybe get a kick out of every time it goes off and i see a cop hiding, before he catches me accidentally speeding

OK, a couple of pet peeves:


What you have purchased is called a radar detector(RD for short), not a radar.

yes, i did buy a radar, its time i start pulling cops over, citizens arrest time!!!!

jk

[protias]

good advice and info, im waiting for my 9500xi and ill be looking for cops while testing the radar, maybe get a kick out of every time it goes off and i see a cop hiding, before he catches me accidentally speeding

OK, a couple of pet peeves:


What you have purchased is called a radar detector(RD for short), not a radar.

yes, i did buy a radar, its time i start pulling cops over, citizens arrest time!!!!

jk

You mean a radar gun?

[2Bolt]

Only a total loser would need two RDs for one car! Oh wait.

I totally agree with your suggestions and situational awareness always - but for now, I'll stick to my 2 RDs instead of 1 - I'm using one for when I do my running around staying in town, and then the other when out on the open road out of town. I never use both at the same time - only one or the other

V1
9500ix

[NickT916]

i decided to go ahead and buy the V1 also, i bought this one used on ebay for $250

they are known for tons of false alarms due to door sensors and everything around town, correct? but on the freeway there is no such false alarms and has a longer range front and back

so my total investment is currently at $650

$400 9500ix
$250 V1

seems a bit much, but might be very well worth it for protections around town and freeway ...

now if you are driving around town 70% of the time and 30% of the time get on the freeway, are you better off with an IX or the V1??

[djrams80]

i decided to go ahead and buy the V1 also, i bought this one used on ebay for $250

Good luck with that. You should know that about 50% of used V1s show up needing repair. What version is it? There are many older versions out there that do not perform anywhere near the standards of today's V1s.

[NickT916]

i decided to go ahead and buy the V1 also, i bought this one used on ebay for $250

Good luck with that. You should know that about 50% of used V1s show up needing repair. What version is it? There are many older versions out there that do not perform anywhere near the standards of today's V1s.

1.8 version, what repairs do they need and how do you know if it needs repairs?

[djrams80]

1.8 version, what repairs do they need and how do you know if it needs repairs?

What usually happens when a V1 needs repair is that the detected frequeny range will drift. What that means is that when a properly working V1 sweeps the K band for example, which is 24.050 - 24.250 GHz, it will slightly oversweep the band, something like 24.040 - 24.260 GHz. A broken V1's sweep range will be off, so its sweep range might have drifted down to something like 23.945 - 24.165 GHz. So, when a LEO comes by running K band radar at 24.145 GHz, the V1 alerts as normal, but when a LEO comes by running K band radar at 24.180 GHz, that is outside its drifted sweep range, the V1 doesn't even know the radar signal is there and never makes a peep. My used version 1.8, revision 3.812 V1 showed up even more busted than the example I described and couldn't detect X or K band at all. I had to immediately send it in for repair.

To fix something like this, VR goes in and changes out the broken component, which costs $45.

Do you know what software revision the one you purchased is?

[Freebird]

CHP like to hide behind the walls on the entrance ramps on the I-5 in Sac and shoot you in the rear as you pass with instant on. Just a word of caution from my observations passing through that area. Enjoy your V1.