 I guess here is the thing..
I guess here is the thing yes IO is difficult. But i've had my far share of IO hits, this guy Shot more than just me before i encountered that intersection... Yet no advanced, this isn't the first time i've had an issue with 35.5ghz ka band on my valentine one. It is a problem for sure, and keep thinking it's not. The BUG does exist i've seen it now mulitpule times weather it was IO or not, the v1 barley even alerted me. Yes normally the out of tune thing could be correct although i just had my unit tuned not a month ago before the alpine invational.. So that is out of the question and it picks up my 34.7ghz stalker JUST fine...Although i can even make it miss alerts on my Stalker ATR if i quick trigger fast enough, now it's not really a totally LEGIT trigger and i may be overloading the front end of the receiver on my detector at times. But I can defently make a v1 miss an alert, you best beleive that. And the reason is the Frequency and where it is located in the EHF Ka bandwidth. It is dead center in the middle of your scan of the Ka band so it is Always ALways going to be the Last frequency you pick up! This is the reason 35.5ghz is SO deadly not to mention Ka band is so much more Narrow than K band or x band width ehf emmisions.. Remember the higher the frequency the shorter the antenna needed for the transmission the shorter the antenna the more directional or of a Beam anteanna it becomes which is why There is also less scatter with 35.5ghz it is the highest Freq you can get hit with today with radar. So it is also the most Narrow beam out there. So Yes 35.5ghz is an issue. On any detector although i personally have noticed the V1 has some of the worst Side Lobe detection i have seen of the top end units, The reason this is, is because if it had too much side lobe detection the Arrows would not be as accuret, due to the fact that they couldn't differentiate which antenna was receiveing a stronger signal.
If i lost you at the antenna. Think about this look at your cell phone now cell phones most often times can be 850mhz to 3ghz for a nextel phone. Look how short that antenna is now you personally know the beam on that RF signal is tight because when you enter a building or trees even watch your Signal dissapear in a heart beat! Whereas with A cb which is in the 28mhz region Watch as it works pretty flawlessly in the Trails even. The reason is the lower the freq the better the signal carries through objects trees bushes, hills etc. The reason for this is technical to the average person but i'll explain in lamens terms for you. When you shoot a tight beam and it gets cut there isn't anything left to make that jump to your detector, hence no advanced overage just as laser does! Now if the beam is wider or lower in freq such as x band for instance or S band radars. It will get broken in that one spot but the rest will pass the object by and gain a reflection from your car and create scatter for you to gain an alert! Wella another principal for undetectable radars...Merely place them at such a high freq that the beam is so tight that a detector would be pointless you could by all means make radar more deadly and user friendly than lidar...why they don't do it i don't know..but 35.5 is the closest thing, and it seems they are catching on! I hope they don't ever move there stuff to the 60GHZ bandwidth or you can forget your mesily little detector working ever again... Due to the fact that the Radio spectrum goes all the way to 300ghz this could perhaps be done as well. Maybe now i've OPENED YOUR EYES A TAD.
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