Great news for Whistler buyers !!

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Well I hope he stays budget oriented, because if not I will just go Belscort, unless this RD beats their high-end units by a fair margin.


If the this rumored Whistler does come out: AND it is more sensitive then the V1 (ie: Remote mount), I can't believe the commotion that would cause. Not only would 2-RD's be more sensitive (The Belscort remotes which by all accounts so far trounce the V1), a third Whistler unit would be. Along with the high-end Belscort dashmounts which virtually 'trade-punches' with the V1 as far as sensitivity goes across the bands.


Alas: The odds of that are (I would say) 100-to-1.

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Well I hope he stays budget oriented, because if not I will just go Belscort, unless this RD beats their high-end units by a fair margin.


If the this rumored Whistler does come out: AND it is more sensitive then the V1 (ie: Remote mount), I can't believe the commotion that would cause. Not only would 2-RD's be more sensitive (The Belscort remotes which by all accounts so far trounce the V1), a third Whistler unit would be. Along with the high-end Belscort dashmounts which virtually 'trade-punches' with the V1 as far as sensitivity goes across the bands.


Alas: The odds of that are (I would say) 100-to-1.

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In your opinion, which bands would you say the ix out performs the V1, or trades punches?

Maybe Whistler is going to resurrect the Spectrum line of detectors :eek: Those things falsed worse than the Valentines :confused:

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In your opinion, which bands would you say the ix out performs the V1, or trades punches?

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I'd say on the K and Ka bands it holds its own with the V1. X band is a different matter; the V1 has always been in a league of its own there. Also, laser. The V1 picks up scatter better than any detector, although the ix is supposed to be improved in that area.

We'll know for sure how the ix stacks up with the V1 when GOL does their tests.

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I'd say on the K and Ka bands it holds its own with the V1. X band is a different matter; the V1 has always been in a league of its own there. Also, laser. The V1 picks up scatter better than any detector, although the ix is supposed to be improved in that area.

We'll know for sure how the ix stacks up with the V1 when GOL does their tests.

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I would have to disagree with you at least on K band.
I tested both the V1 and iX one at a time on a K band drone, and the V1 alerted at 1.1 miles and the iX was at .08 miles. Now I don't know if that would make much difference with a LEO running IO, but the V1 alerted sooner.

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I would have to disagree with you at least on K band.
I tested both the V1 and iX one at a time on a K band drone, and the V1 alerted at 1.1 miles and the iX was at .08 miles. Now I don't know if that would make much difference with a LEO running IO, but the V1 alerted sooner.

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1.1 vs 0.08? Something's not right here. My V1 is more sensitive on every band than my 9500ix, but not by a factor of 13. I'd say my 9500ix is closest to my V1 on 34.7Ka, furthest on X.

I'm guessing that wegrowhair meant to type 0.8 miles?

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I'm guessing that wegrowhair meant to type 0.8 miles?

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Yes, sorry about that.

It may depend on the terrain, but I'm getting them going of virtually at the same distance. But I did go and review the GOL 2007 test and it did bear out what webgrow said.

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At any rate... I hope Whistler knocks it out of the ballpark

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So do I. They used to be the company to beat but then everyone just passed them by. Hopefully they're tired of drawing the short straw and now they are back on their game. Whistler is the only company that has user switchable display color and currently is the only company that does a remote the right way, meaning, it's a pure detector with all of the electronics up front, and the display inside and they don't force you to buy a sub-par laser shifter with the deal and then charge you 1600.00. I'm hoping that I don't have to buy a 9500ci and that Whistler comes up with something really strong :)