Its evening this Christmas day. I am down in Rome, GA, visiting my father. After dinner I had to return a couple of movies to Blockbuster and run to Walgreens to pick up some light bulbs. The store had a deal on a four pack of 100 watt fluorescent light bulbs for just $9.99! Anyway, while driving to Walgreens after returning the movies, my 9500i started very weakly alerting to a moving mode X band radar system! I spotted the approaching city patrol car a few hundred feet ahead of me. The alert on my 9500i never reached more than 3 out of 10, and the alert immediately disappeared as I passed the patrol car. This occurred in an area of no known false alert sources.
I think that my 9500i was detecting an extremely weak auxilliary X band transmitter for measuring the patrol car's speed since I am sure that any signal from his target vehicle speed measuring transmitter would have been much stronger. I know that these patrol car speed measuring transmitters on K band radar systems are mounted underneath the patrol car. Hmm...I am seriously wondering if there is a new X band radar system out from one of the manufacturers. Several months ago I could swear that I read a brief blurb somewhere on the net about such a system. I thought that I read some sort of announcement about a new low power X band system on one of the manufacturer web sites. I can't find any mention of it now though. Maybe I need to try the internet archive site and see if the announcement page got indexed. |