Pro78se performance downgrade!!

[nosbusa]

When I first got my 78se I was getting great detection range for the first couple weeks. Now all of a sudden my range has decreased considerably. 35.5 I was getting 1-2 miles now its down to 1/2 mile at best. 34.7 was about a mile or so and today in my normal travel area I got 34.7 at 2 tenths of a mile with C/O....33.8 used to be 1-3 miles and now I'm lucky at 1 mile....All of this is at the same location I always encounter the speed traps...I just don't understand the drop off in detection. Any ideas or is there a factory reset.....These ranges are going to get me in trouble.

This is the same message I sent to Mike B. Waiting to hear what he thinks!!

I noticed the other day a LEO was sitting in a turning lane "trying to turn" with his Radar on. My Pro 78se on K band picked it up from about 400 feet away. It should've picked it up from much farther away. Especially with a straight shot.

I'll see how it does this week.

[GET 1T DONE]

It's like Y2K for Whistlers. Just the other day it was July 8th... at lunch time, it was 12:34:56 7-8-09... now, all Whister RD's performance seems to be turning to sh1t.

Coincidence? ...I think not!

Jig Mode and the went to No--Ramp Up

What the heck is that?

Did it seriously say that on the display??? Am I the only one who wants to know what this means?


And as far as performance, my XTR-695 feels like it has a VERY directional antenna PLUS it has good days and bad days. Sometimes Ka-band alerts are good. Sometimes they are marginal at best. K-band detection distances are usually on par with Ka-, but below the K-band performance of my 1793SE. The X-band performance is just plain pitiful no matter what the situation.

And before somebody says send it in, I already did and my XTR-695 was given a clean bill of health. I originally got it as a gift for my sister... but since then we've switched because she lives in NJ and I live in a K/Ka-band dominant state. Immediately after I gave it to her she got her first ever speeding ticket... never a problem when she had the Cobra ESD-7000. That's how bad the XTR-695's X-band detection is.

I have to do some more testing, and maybe video as well this time. I've only did K-band testing so far.

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...ncounters.html

[Divewjason]

Sending it to Michael B is a smart move. It has been pretty humid in FL so I'm sure that is at least part of the problem.

[Divewjason]

It's like Y2K for Whistlers. Just the other day it was July 8th... at lunch time, it was 12:34:56 7-8-09... now, all Whister RD's performance seems to be turning to sh1t.

Coincidence? ...I think not!

Jig Mode and the went to No--Ramp Up

What the heck is that?

Did it seriously say that on the display??? Am I the only one who wants to know what this means?


And as far as performance, my XTR-695 feels like it has a VERY directional antenna PLUS it has good days and bad days. Sometimes Ka-band alerts are good. Sometimes they are marginal at best. K-band detection distances are usually on par with Ka-, but below the K-band performance of my 1793SE. The X-band performance is just plain pitiful no matter what the situation.

And before somebody says send it in, I already did and my XTR-695 was given a clean bill of health. I originally got it as a gift for my sister... but since then we've switched because she lives in NJ and I live in a K/Ka-band dominant state. Immediately after I gave it to her she got her first ever speeding ticket... never a problem when she had the Cobra ESD-7000. That's how bad the XTR-695's X-band detection is.

I have to do some more testing, and maybe video as well this time. I've only did K-band testing so far.

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...ncounters.html

This goes back to what I had said before. How well any Whistler will perform is relative to location. I imagined that x band sensitivity is toned down to keep the detector from falsing on x band as much. Although I'd have to question why since you can disable x band.

[BlinderGuy]

It's like Y2K for Whistlers. Just the other day it was July 8th... at lunch time, it was 12:34:56 7-8-09... now, all Whister RD's performance seems to be turning to sh1t.

Coincidence? ...I think not!

Jig Mode and the went to No--Ramp Up

What the heck is that?

Did it seriously say that on the display??? Am I the only one who wants to know what this means?


And as far as performance, my XTR-695 feels like it has a VERY directional antenna PLUS it has good days and bad days. Sometimes Ka-band alerts are good. Sometimes they are marginal at best. K-band detection distances are usually on par with Ka-, but below the K-band performance of my 1793SE. The X-band performance is just plain pitiful no matter what the situation.

And before somebody says send it in, I already did and my XTR-695 was given a clean bill of health. I originally got it as a gift for my sister... but since then we've switched because she lives in NJ and I live in a K/Ka-band dominant state. Immediately after I gave it to her she got her first ever speeding ticket... never a problem when she had the Cobra ESD-7000. That's how bad the XTR-695's X-band detection is.

I have to do some more testing, and maybe video as well this time. I've only did K-band testing so far.

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...ncounters.html

I asked Mike B about the event Jig Mode and the went to No--Ramp Up and he adv that is a setting that is used for tuning and testing and you have to push multiple buttons while powering on to get that but I have mine wired to accessory power. I don't have to push buttons...Soon as I turned on my car instead of it saying whistler and going through the start up that was what was displayed. Why I am not sure and it has not done it again.

I am sending my 78se and 690se both in just to have them looked at....I wont ship until I have back up detector in place which is the Refurb 8500 I ordered that will be here tomorrow....I really would like my 78se back the way it was at first....I had great range and very little falses.

[Freebird]

This goes back to what I had said before. How well any Whistler will perform is relative to location. +1

I had good performance in Florida on 34.7 FSP with several 1.5 mile alerts. I think the performance issues he is seeing are like what I saw, great performance some encounters, not so good others. This is not to say somethings wrong with your unit, I have back to back poor encounters with my V1 and STI also. Some days your the bug, some days the winshield.

[Lucky225]

It's like Y2K for Whistlers. Just the other day it was July 8th... at lunch time, it was 12:34:56 7-8-09... now, all Whister RD's performance seems to be turning to sh1t.

Coincidence? ...I think not!

Jig Mode and the went to No--Ramp Up

What the heck is that?

Did it seriously say that on the display??? Am I the only one who wants to know what this means?


And as far as performance, my XTR-695 feels like it has a VERY directional antenna PLUS it has good days and bad days. Sometimes Ka-band alerts are good. Sometimes they are marginal at best. K-band detection distances are usually on par with Ka-, but below the K-band performance of my 1793SE. The X-band performance is just plain pitiful no matter what the situation.

And before somebody says send it in, I already did and my XTR-695 was given a clean bill of health. I originally got it as a gift for my sister... but since then we've switched because she lives in NJ and I live in a K/Ka-band dominant state. Immediately after I gave it to her she got her first ever speeding ticket... never a problem when she had the Cobra ESD-7000. That's how bad the XTR-695's X-band detection is.

I have to do some more testing, and maybe video as well this time. I've only did K-band testing so far.

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...ncounters.html

I asked Mike B about the event Jig Mode and the went to No--Ramp Up and he adv that is a setting that is used for tuning and testing and you have to push multiple buttons while powering on to get that but I have mine wired to accessory power. I don't have to push buttons...Soon as I turned on my car instead of it saying whistler and going through the start up that was what was displayed. Why I am not sure and it has not done it again.

I am sending my 78se and 690se both in just to have them looked at....I wont ship until I have back up detector in place which is the Refurb 8500 I ordered that will be here tomorrow....I really would like my 78se back the way it was at first....I had great range and very little falses.

I'd be interested in that button combination

[BlinderGuy]

This goes back to what I had said before. How well any Whistler will perform is relative to location. +1

I had good performance in Florida on 34.7 FSP with several 1.5 mile alerts. I think the performance issues he is seeing are like what I saw, great performance some encounters, not so good others. This is not to say somethings wrong with your unit, I have back to back poor encounters with my V1 and STI also. Some days your the bug, some days the winshield.

I just don't want to be a squashed bug!!!!

[Freebird]

This goes back to what I had said before. How well any Whistler will perform is relative to location. +1

I had good performance in Florida on 34.7 FSP with several 1.5 mile alerts. I think the performance issues he is seeing are like what I saw, great performance some encounters, not so good others. This is not to say somethings wrong with your unit, I have back to back poor encounters with my V1 and STI also. Some days your the bug, some days the winshield.

I just don't want to be a squashed bug!!!!

Yeah, I remember testing mine and some encounters I was like ok that was good, and others I felt I could have thrown a rock and hit the patrol car. Some days were and others .

[Jag42]

It's like Y2K for Whistlers. Just the other day it was July 8th... at lunch time, it was 12:34:56 7-8-09... now, all Whister RD's performance seems to be turning to sh1t.

Coincidence? ...I think not!

Jig Mode and the went to No--Ramp Up

What the heck is that?

Did it seriously say that on the display??? Am I the only one who wants to know what this means?


And as far as performance, my XTR-695 feels like it has a VERY directional antenna PLUS it has good days and bad days. Sometimes Ka-band alerts are good. Sometimes they are marginal at best. K-band detection distances are usually on par with Ka-, but below the K-band performance of my 1793SE. The X-band performance is just plain pitiful no matter what the situation.

And before somebody says send it in, I already did and my XTR-695 was given a clean bill of health. I originally got it as a gift for my sister... but since then we've switched because she lives in NJ and I live in a K/Ka-band dominant state. Immediately after I gave it to her she got her first ever speeding ticket... never a problem when she had the Cobra ESD-7000. That's how bad the XTR-695's X-band detection is.

I have to do some more testing, and maybe video as well this time. I've only did K-band testing so far.

http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...ncounters.html

I asked Mike B about the event Jig Mode and the went to No--Ramp Up and he adv that is a setting that is used for tuning and testing and you have to push multiple buttons while powering on to get that but I have mine wired to accessory power. I don't have to push buttons...Soon as I turned on my car instead of it saying whistler and going through the start up that was what was displayed. Why I am not sure and it has not done it again.

I am sending my 78se and 690se both in just to have them looked at....I wont ship until I have back up detector in place which is the Refurb 8500 I ordered that will be here tomorrow....I really would like my 78se back the way it was at first....I had great range and very little falses.

I'd be interested in that button combination

I know how to access the Jig mode, I can make a video