Noob Question About POP Disable

[la verdad]

Hi everyone. I tried a search, but I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for...

I just purchased a new V1 from Valentine. I live in S. Florida. From what I have gathered from this website, Florida does not use X band - so I disabled it. I have also read several articles that say POP is a radar type that is not used very often (maybe only in Nevada?)

I am getting tons of false alerts from K band, which I imagine is from all the shopping centers, walgreens, etc.

Is POP something that I want to disable? Are there advantages to disabling it? I hear that I will get less false reports.

Thanks for everyone's help.

[la verdad]

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[hockey005]

turn pop off because it will reduce your J outs by a lot! also X is used in florida! there was some confusion on this but i believe that X is in fact used by some locals!

[la verdad]

turn pop off because it will reduce your J outs by a lot! also X is used in florida! there was some confusion on this but i believe that X is in fact used by some locals!

where did you hear about x band being used?


Rule: 15B-2.0082
Rule Title: Minimum Design Criteria for Radar Units

(2) All radar units used in this State on or after January 1, 1995, shall be designed to operate in one or both of the following frequency ranges as assigned by the Federal Communication Commission for operation of Doppler radar radiolocation units.
24.050 – 24.250 GHz (K - Band) (Common
33.400 – 36.000 GHz (Ka - Band) Referrals)

[jdong]

Turn off POP if you experience a lot of unexplained Ka blips, or Ka alerts followed by a J. Otherwise, it doesn't matter if you turn it on or keep it off. The V1 doesn't false nearly as much as other detectors with POP enabled, but in dense areas it can be annoying.

K-band falsing is likely due to the V1's extremely sensitivity to K-band radar from door openers. It definitely pays off though on those evil around-the-corner type encounters or from instant-on far far away. A detector that doesn't alert this much on K-band simply isn't as sensitive on the band... there's no secret formula (yet) for weeding out door openers but remaining equally sensitive to off-axis police radar, as police radar and door openers look electrically identical.

[hockey005]

yea i no that but i believe that Cliff (C55 on here) ran into some X in florida from a local somewhere even tho that law or w/e...but yea id turn it off cuz the chances if you running into it is not great

[djrams80]

yea i no that but i believe that Cliff (C55 on here) ran into some X in florida from a local somewhere even tho that law or w/e...but yea id turn it off cuz the chances if you running into it is not great

X band is definitely not an approved radar band for use in Florida, but I'd bet the LEO that Cliff saw using X band radar probably doesn't know the law and/or doesn't know the radar gun he was using was X band.

[hockey005]

o i could have sworn i heard about that even tho i knew it was illegal..