Originally Posted by gsxr750 (Post 2377669)

Bottom line a detector is worthless, if the majority of police use the KA Band and it only detects them with in a 10th mile or less for the majority of detections.

You just said you had 8+ detections at distances over a half mile... That's not worthless.

You will not have time to slow down, your only hope is that the police already targeted someone else or is in the process of writing up a ticket to another driver.

Your statements about observing other cars to see if they set off the detector is BS. No one has that much time to waste when driving and you can't slam your brakes on with every false detection

You don't slam on your brakes for ANY detection... :icon17: Talk about highlighting yourself even more than speeding. All you do is come off the gas, and if you're going too fast, give the ebrake a quick squeeze to bleed speed. A quick drop in speed lets the cop know you know he saw you = you're guilty.

And no, it isn't BS. It takes no time at all. I've had several false detections from other vehicles and noticed the back up/collision avoidance sensors and chalked it up to those. After you spend a good amount of time with the detector, you Learn what it picks up and are able to discern what is/is not a real alert.

Either the detector works or it doesn't.

And according to your review, it DID work. You are saying if you're a horrible driver, don't waste your money. But an actual alert driver, someone who pays attention, and takes the time to understand how the detector works and it's quirks, will go far fine.

The other issue is that you really can't speed and hope you won't get caught, with the 65- 70 mph speed limit on most roads, its fast enough to not have to worry about a $200-$500 ticket to save a few minutes on a trip.

Originally Posted by gsxr750 (Post 2377713)

Not biased , 10th. of a mile is 528 ft. covered in only a few seconds at 70mph or more = no time to slow down , plain and simple.

According to you even if it saves you a few tickets the detector is worth it !

What is the logic in that statement, who can afford a $200 -$500 ticket a few times a yr. and expensive surcharges for points against their license.

Tell me more about side scanning abilities, when you can't see the speed patrol set up.

Originally Posted by gsxr750 (Post 2375897)

Overall I had about 15 occurrences with police , ( 10 highway and 5 local).

Surprisingly for me the I did get 2 long range readings of readings of KA Band set ups, range about 1 mile.


So on the thruway, I had about 8 occurrences of KA band , 2 alerts could have been considered long range 1 1/4 mile and 3/4 miles and 2 more about a 1/2 mile.

The rest of the highway KA band were short range indications of only about a 10th mile, basically you seen the cop and the radar unit displayed KA band , no time to slow down.

Originally Posted by gsxr750 (Post 2377730)

The majority of the KA band detections were at short range about a 10th. mile for most of them, I really only got 2 long range detections.

2 out of 8 is not good odds.

Originally Posted by gsxr750 (Post 2377743)

Stand corrected , forgot about the other 2 1/2 mile detection

Originally Posted by gsxr750 (Post 2377753)

Bottom line for advice is just buy what ever you want from best buy , they will price match any new amazon item listed on the web and you have 15 days to decide if you want to keep it, I got the 9500 IX for $430 plus tax.


Test them for yourself and come to your own conclusion, as its a free world.

Originally Posted by gsxr750 (Post 2377764)

Mounted left of center mirror, in about the middle of the windshield.

Originally Posted by gsxr750 (Post 2377776)

Most detections were from the front from confirmed set ups, false signals who knows !!!

Originally Posted by gsxr750 (Post 2377789)

Don't get me wrong I really hoped the detector would have worked and may have kept it or got the new escort model.

From my observations it just confirmed what I had already encountered with the best detectors from the 90's , with the KA band you just didn't get the warning in time.

The short range radar is just to hard to really pick up on with most detectors.

Originally Posted by XwChriswX (Post 2377807)

You can't expect it to pick up everything... to do so would make it so sensitive it picks up a bunch of stuff it shouldn't, like the store doors or other cars.

Did the 9500ix have different modes like AUTO, AUTO NO X, HIGHWAY?

In AUTO and AUTO NO X, it's not as sensitive as it is in HIGHWAY. Something to consider...

Originally Posted by gsxr750 (Post 2377860)

It had the no X band and maybe a few other I only really left in highway mode , and no X band when false alerts got to much.

Every K band alert was always a false alert.