Ok - After about 300 miles of driving between yesterday and today, I must say I am impressed. The Sti - R certainly beats my regular Sti on K and Ka band. At times the differences are quite far. My K band experiences are related to falses. On a few K band sources near my office the remote version beat my regular by over a half mile - consistantly. Both units were in highway mode, POP off, X Off and are in Tec Mode (so I can see they are both hitting on the same Freq). Sti-R has radardetector junking off.
On 4 fixed (non-moving) Ka Band encounters the remote alerted first each time. On 2 of the encounters I was wondering when the regular Sti would chime in. On one of these enclounters the remote beat my regular by about 8-9 seconds at highway speed and on the other it was about 4-5 seconds.
So far, even with the high price and lackluster build quality I am very happy. I was quite satisified with my windshield Sti and this remote beats it with ease. Its even more impressive when you considor the remote is mounted about 4 feet below the regular Sti (just below my plate) about 9-10 inches off the ground. I wold like to see if other users are experiencing similar results with this detector (or the 9500ci when it is released). |