I finally got to test my ebay passport 8500 from LA to Vegas and back. It worked like a charm.
I didn't get any CHP comming from behind but got 4 or 5 going the opposite direction. Most of them are Ka signal. It's interesting how CHP on I15 always have their radar gun on..not like CHP in orange county or la.

Thumb up for passport 8500.

 

I used it 5 times going to SEMA there with my 5 year old 8500 and it worked awesome everytime.

 

I need to get myself one...
is the 8500/v1 pretty much the same?

 

seem like member here likes V1 better because the indicator signal show you front/rear/left/right direction also.

 

8500 x50 i've heard is better than the v1 when it comes to detection...

but the v1 has arrows...

i love the 8500... cept it gets a lil annoying sometimes when you have to try and play where's waldo when ur radar goes off!

 

Agreed. I love mine but am wishing I had the red one now. Anywone want to trade for a blue??

 

V1 Ftw!

 

I make the run to Vegas a few times a year on business. I have V1's in my Z and my X and they've saved me too many times to count. There are trips where there haven't been a single cop on the whole 350 miles and on the way home four days later I've been hit eight or ten times. On return trips like that I just set the cruise control at 85 mph and sit back and relax. I like the arrows as tactics and responses are different based on the nature of the threat. The one I hate the most are the CHiPs that creep up from behind ...

 

NM love the 8500

 

Yea alot oh the highway patrol in NV and CA are using always on radar. Its hooked up to their speedo and deducts how fast their going from the total miles per hour that the radar detects. So if the radar says 145, it deducts his speed so lets say 65. He knows your going 80 so he gets you. I got hit with one of those because I didnt know they could get you while being in motion heading the opposite direction. I was wrong and got a nice 81/45 ticket :-\

 

I've never heard of that type radar and I've installed countless radars. Most radars work basicly the same, most have 2 small screens, one for patrol speed and one for target speed. Virtually all have instant on capabilities which either front or rear antenna can be switched with a flip of a switch "instantly". Some also have a selectable range which at the shortest range it's very hard to pick up till it's too late, but for the most part cops leave it on the longest range. Then theres the Decatur Genisis II which can clock you while you and the cop are traveling the same direction. But this is just scraping the surface.

 

I've got a Beltronics RX65, had it about a month. I would say its "Saved" me once, picked up a statey coming from the opposite direction, I was doing about 20 over at the time. It went off LONG before I saw him coming, and this was around a bend with a berm on the inside of the turn. On the way up to VT a few weeks ago for the Mtn Run was its first real test. Did well. It gets to go to RI next week - that will be fun with all the cops on I-95.

 

Dopler radar.

 

i'm probably gonna sell my 8500 when the new ones come out, anyone know when that is?