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6.1 HOW THE RADAR WORKS
The actual process involved in determining a vehicle’s speed is basically a simple one. It involves direcng a beam of microwave energy
at an approaching target vehicle. A poron of this beam is reected by the target and is received by the radar unit that originally
transmied the signal. The reected signal is shied in frequency by an amount proporonal to the speed of the target vehicle.
This phenomenon is known as the Doppler eect. The radar unit determines the target vehicle speed from the dierence in
frequency between the reected signal and original signal.
To acvate the Radar Detector, please read chapter 4.2.9 ‘SN 0 Display’. To de-acvate the Radar Detector press the red buon
briey (not longer than 2 sec.!). If you press this buon too long, the device will set to ‘illuminaon’ mode and the Radar Detector
will NOT be switched o.
6.2 RADAR FREQUENCIES
The QUINTEZZ DRIVE CONTROL can detect 5 radar bands with 14 dierent frequencies and includes Instant ON radar and POP
radar.
X band: 9.41 Ghz, 9.9 Ghz, 10.5 Ghz, 10.525 Ghz, 10.6 Ghz9.9 Ghz, 10.5 Ghz, 10.525 Ghz, 10.6 Ghz
Ku band: 13.450 Ghz,
K band: 24.1 Ghz, 24.125, 24.15 Ghz24.1 Ghz, 24.125, 24.15 Ghz
Ka narrow-band: 34.0 Ghz, 34.3 Ghz, 34.36 Ghz
Ka wide-band: 34.7 Ghz, 35.5 Ghz
POP detecon
6.3 LASER DETECTION
Laser detecon is another kind of signal that can be detected. Laser Speed Guns use pulses of infrared laser light to measure speed
of target by ming each pulses over me as it is reected back to the gun.
6.4 LASER RANGE
The eecve range of clocking distance by a laser gun is less than 1 km. The operator of the laser gun is instructed to target on the
number plate. So, mount your laser detector as low as possible in the car. The QUINTEZZ DRIVE CONTROL oers the possibility to
detect a laser from front as well as from behind.
If the Laser Detector is acvated by reecon signals from the laser beam to a vehicle in front of you, then you sll have me to
react on the laser check.
If the Laser Detector is acvated by a laser beam that is pointed on your car, then your speed is already measured during the laser alarm.
6.5 OTHER SPEED CHECKS
There are a couple of other checks that cannot be detected by Radar or Laser Detectors. These checks include digital video recording,
loops within the road and opcal speed checks. These checks have to be detected by GPS.
A Radar Detector is able to detect several of these traps, but not all of them. The new generaon of radar speed traps is increasingly
dicult to detect by means of a Radar Detector. Furthermore, the Radar Detector is forbidden in many countries. False alarms occur
on a regular basis with each and every Radar Detector.
