To simplify things, here’s a look at the average of the two runs for each detector. I actually brought that crappy Chinese V7 Batman detector along to run as well, mainly for comic relief, but the power cable was toast so the detector wouldn’t even power on. No detector turned in poor results like I’ve seen in the past with lower grade detectors. Every detector gave tons of warning on 34.7 as well. His R3 did well with the filter on or off, but it did give slightly longer detections with the filter off. He wanted to test out the impact of Ka Filtering on his R3 so we did two passes with Ka Filter On and two more with Ka Filter Off.
So yeah we were running different firmware versions, but I don’t think the differences in the detection ranges are due to the different firmware versions.
His got better range overall, but the differences were within the normal bounds of sample variation, normal run-to-run variation, plus a little fudge factor due to my measurement method (V1Driver) only being accurate to +/- 50 feet or so. Both had two shorter 1600’ish foot detections for one of the runs (the course has several different detection “zones” due to the nature of the terrain) which kind of messed up their I are running different firmware versions of the R3, but both detectors performed similarly. The NR DSP just barely edged out the RC M. The Radenso RC M and Net Radar DSP did well too. This is the same hardware, firmware, settings, and everything. The Stinger VIP did much better than it did last time when it gave really poor results. The Escort Max Ci 360 impressed me with consistently long range runs including the longest 33.8 run of the day. They all generally all went off around 2300-2700 feet away. Every detector alerted right around the red barn, maybe a little before or after, and every detector gave plenty of warning (which is what I was expecting, given these are all high end radar detectors). The firmware should be publicly released soon.)Īll the detectors were set up with the standard settings.