Radar falseys

[Fatjim]

I'm getting a lot of lazer false alarms on my RX65. Usually it in close proximty to other vehicles. Starting to piss me (and the vehicle I've just passed) off.

Anybody else got this problem?

[Biff]

Radar detectors have reference oscillators in them. That is they have a little widget (mostly crystals) which wibble (a technical term form Biff's Book of Bollox) about at the same frequency as the signals that they wish to detect.

Some 'cheaper' radar detectors have inadequate RF shielding, so the 'wibbling' radiates. Someone driving past a vehicle with a 'cheaper' radar detector, wibbling away unshielded, with their own radar detector switched on will detect this signal, as their own radar detects a signal which is wibbling on the same frequency as a police radar mathingy.

Make sense?


Yup - I sometimes experience the same problem. But the more expensive your detector, in general, the better the intelligence it has, so the better is its ability to detect cheapwibblydetectormathingies squirting our spurious shite.

[madboy]

False alarms. Hence why I usually prefer to take my chances without one. Too much attention focused on detector and scanning for the source of signal, not enough time spent focusing on the other 4079 hazards on the road. Sure, the better the detector the less the interference, but you still get some interference - enough for paranoia.

[Blackbird]

On my Escort X50, the only time I got false alarms is when I had POP mode enabled (I'm told that certain Agricultural vehicles can set it off). No probs since I disabled POP. Has your RX got POP mode? If so, turn it off.

[XTC]

On my Escort X50, the only time I got false alarms is when I had POP mode enabled (I'm told that certain Agricultural vehicles can set it off). No probs since I disabled POP. Has your RX got POP mode? If so, turn it off.

That'd be quite helpful on the back roads..... May warn you about that tractor round the corner.

[Fatjim]

No, it's just a lazer, not an Ka band, alarm.

[Lou Girardin]

You could be getting light difraction through your screen, or it could be falsing on neon, or it could be overhead illuminated signs, or even some types of LED tailights. Mine are too rare to worry about.

[Timber020]

I was going to post something simular yesterday, on the hutt motorway to melling and state highway 1 to paramata I was getting a HEAP of false laser warnings from my escort X50. I must have got 20 all up, and only one was a cop. First time my detector has done anything like this. No idea what it was.

[Fatjim]

Maybe sunspots

It's most common when I'm overtaking a car, especially when there's a yellow line causing me to be closer.

[boomer]

Biffs on the mark. Pickin up other peoples radars and noise.

Biff it ( scuse the punn ) and buy a decent one

[stanko]

I have an x50 and sometimes get Laser warnings caused by electrical noise from the powervalve servo on my RZ and the wing mirror motors in my ute. on the bike i have to disable laser or it goes off at 6500rpm.

Im not sure I go along with the wibbly wobbly theory because that would cause one of the radio bands to go off not the laser .

[Lou Girardin]

Biffs on the mark. Pickin up other peoples radars and noise.

Biff it ( scuse the punn ) and buy a decent one

We're talking about laser.

[boomer]

We're talking about laser.

Whats this 'We' business whte man???? I'm happy talking about intergalactic travel..so you should be happy too

[Lou Girardin]

Whats this 'We' business whte man???? I'm happy talking about intergalactic travel..so you should be happy too

Que?

[boomer]

back in teh UK there was an advert on tv for something or other; It was the Lone Ranger and Tonto; The Lone Ranger gets into shit and says something like "we're in it now!"... to which Tonto replies "Whats this We Business White man"

Never mind... it was only for my amusement