XTR-560 Demo

[John_in_NC]

Thought I would share the teach mode and some functions of Whistlers current top of the line XTR-560.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve6iR1N0tKc

[proudNMAmember]

Thx, I enjoyed that John in NC! The voice sounds like one of my old Whistlers that I used to own.

[John_in_NC]

Glad you enjoyed it, was playing around with a digital camcorder and some software that came with it. I figured why not record the XTR-560 to see how it worked.
The music and outer mat came into the video by mistake but thought it had a neat effect so I left it.

Thinking on changing some of the voice alerts by having my wife do them with a wav studio program. My wife has a much sexier voice. :-)

[ELVATO]

LOL, I felt like I was at an arcade, especially for Laser. :P It would be funny you get the laser alert, you get pulled over, and it plays a "Game over" sound.

Nice video. Was it just me, or did it say "Caution" when the Ku band showed? That was alot of SWS messages :shock: Too bad it never took off. :?

[John_in_NC]

Yeah, guess if it's laser your screwed. Maybe the pacman sound when he gets eaten would be good or how bout "License and Registration"!
Yes, KU default says Caution. I disable that function since not used.
Got to play with it today against a your speed K band sign.
Range was a little over 1/4 mile over the back side of a hill.
I turned around and made another pass to compare it to my old Bel XKR.
The whistler had much better range but not a true comparision of a new Bel since the one I got is about 20 year old technology inside. But with the Bel on the dash, I could see my speed on the sign then it gave me a beep with one bar LOL.
I knew I needed a newer detector today I got to prove it.

Someday soon I hope to see a long range detection on a straightaway over flat ground but from what I see so far with my normal drive around turns, hills etc. I get warning time but not a whole lot.

[proudNMAmember]

Good luck to yah john w/ your Whistler in NC. BTW, watch out for x band popping up all around North Carolina. This has been talked about on this forum.

[John_in_NC]

Noticed an interesting caveat with the Whister XTR-560.

It is supposed to pick up multiple threats.

For example if you are picking up X band and a K band comes into range it will alert you of that.

I had two situation where I picked up X then a K band alert came into range while still picking up X. In both instances it worked but the Radar alert stays on X band chirps does not change to K.