I/O Incident & General Questions...

[Buckdarma]

Last night I encountered a perfect example (of what I already practice) of basically not speeding at night if you're the only car on the road with no rabbit.

It was just after midnight as I'm driving down a road in our town. I was the only car on the road and out of the corner of my eye I saw a car starting to pull out of a business complex. It was pretty dark so it was difficult to make out what it was, but at the last minute there was just enough light that I could see the low profile lights and the push bar, barely made it out. Slowed down, and sure enough he pulled out and snugged up behind me. He was using me for cover and like clockwork, as soon as an oncoming car passed me, my radar detector would go off. He was using instant on, waiting until the cars were pretty much right on us. He did this for 8-10 cars before he made a u-turn and went after a pickup truck with a burnt out headlight.

that is one of leo's favorite little dirty tricks it appears. I have had that happen to me too.

[D_MAC_84]

Made my first long trip today with the Cobra...

Didn't pass too many LEOs. Trooper was on the other side of the divider at an angle. Must have been I/Oing since I didn't get an alert. Passed a few more LEOs with customers on my side of the road. Only one had his radar on. Got the Ka 35.5 warning from at least 1.5m out. So range for C/O is great IMO, but as I've been told, I/O is in and C/O is out.

The Aura database needs some updating though, passed through a few 55 to 35 speedtraps on H521 and no alert tone. Doesn't matter to me since I take that route all the time, but obvious speedtraps like that should be in the database.

Other than that, smooth ride!

[Buckdarma]

Made my first long trip today with the Cobra...

Didn't pass too many LEOs. Trooper was on the other side of the divider at an angle. Must have been I/Oing since I didn't get an alert. Passed a few more LEOs with customers on my side of the road. Only one had his radar on. Got the Ka 35.5 warning from at least 1.5m out. So range for C/O is great IMO, but as I've been told, I/O is in and C/O is out.

The Aura database needs some updating though, passed through a few 55 to 35 speedtraps on H521 and no alert tone. Doesn't matter to me since I take that route all the time, but obvious speedtraps like that should be in the database.

Other than that, smooth ride!

You should have marked those sites as radar traps on your detector at that time and downloaded it to the aura database !

[D_MAC_84]

Made my first long trip today with the Cobra...

Didn't pass too many LEOs. Trooper was on the other side of the divider at an angle. Must have been I/Oing since I didn't get an alert. Passed a few more LEOs with customers on my side of the road. Only one had his radar on. Got the Ka 35.5 warning from at least 1.5m out. So range for C/O is great IMO, but as I've been told, I/O is in and C/O is out.

The Aura database needs some updating though, passed through a few 55 to 35 speedtraps on H521 and no alert tone. Doesn't matter to me since I take that route all the time, but obvious speedtraps like that should be in the database.

Other than that, smooth ride!

You should have marked those sites as radar traps on your detector at that time and downloaded it to the aura database !

So anybody can update the database? If so, that explains why one area on a freeway is marked as a speedtrap. Was scratching my head how a 60MPH zone is a speed trap. :P

For all of you I/O doubters,

Hit two I/Os tonight on H17. First time I got Ka 35.5, weak signal, got it twice. It just beeped two or three times and then stopped. Sure enough, there was a state trooper parked about 1 mile up the road on the side in some woods. Was hitting cars as they passed by. So I picked up I/O trails from at least a mile out. I'm no RD expert, but I was very surprised I was able to do that after reading this forum and the "other" RD forum.

The second time was a bit after that one, same thing. It would get a weak 35.5 and then shut off. About 1/2m down the road, county was parked in the median with no headlights on hitting cars.

Both ample time to slow down. Also, I got a fairly strong 34.7 Ka hit, but did not see any LEOs. Is that a real signal or just a false? EDIT: I see it is indeed a real alert, could not spot the LEO for the life of me though.

[Buckdarma]

Made my first long trip today with the Cobra...

Didn't pass too many LEOs. Trooper was on the other side of the divider at an angle. Must have been I/Oing since I didn't get an alert. Passed a few more LEOs with customers on my side of the road. Only one had his radar on. Got the Ka 35.5 warning from at least 1.5m out. So range for C/O is great IMO, but as I've been told, I/O is in and C/O is out.

The Aura database needs some updating though, passed through a few 55 to 35 speedtraps on H521 and no alert tone. Doesn't matter to me since I take that route all the time, but obvious speedtraps like that should be in the database.

Other than that, smooth ride!

You should have marked those sites as radar traps on your detector at that time and downloaded it to the aura database !

So anybody can update the database? If so, that explains why one area on a freeway is marked as a speedtrap. Was scratching my head how a 60MPH zone is a speed trap. :P

For all of you I/O doubters,

Hit two I/Os tonight on H17. First time I got Ka 35.5, weak signal, got it twice. It just beeped two or three times and then stopped. Sure enough, there was a state trooper parked about 1 mile up the road on the side in some woods. Was hitting cars as they passed by. So I picked up I/O trails from at least a mile out. I'm no RD expert, but I was very surprised I was able to do that after reading this forum and the "other" RD forum.

The second time was a bit after that one, same thing. It would get a weak 35.5 and then shut off. About 1/2m down the road, county was parked in the median with no headlights on hitting cars.

Both ample time to slow down. Also, I got a fairly strong 34.7 Ka hit, but did not see any LEOs. Is that a real signal or just a false? EDIT: I see it is indeed a real alert, could not spot the LEO for the life of me though.

Yes, I believe anyone can. Look in the manual for how to mark speed traps.

Very nice personal experience report

Indeed classic I/O.

all the classic tell tale signs

Nice range also for such a encounter

[D_MAC_84]

Very satisfied, no doubt. So far though...need to see more I/O's and see since that was a straight line shot. H17 doesn't have too many curves.

[Buckdarma]

Very satisfied, no doubt. So far though...need to see more I/O's and see since that was a straight line shot. H17 doesn't have too many curves.

You know what I do on blind curves and blind hills?

just slow down a bit

even the best detectors on the planet costing a gazillion dollars doesn't receive radar signals very well at all in these conditions. Tested my Bel 995 which internals are EXACTLY the rx-65(fcc id confirmed) with a Cobra I own with a police radar trailer that displays your speed.

it was sitting at the end of a bridge that had a big hump in the middle. Apparently people were speeding over this bridge so the police wanted to slow a few down.

want to know the results?

no difference whatsoever