It’s kind of hard to hear over the sound of your music and road noise. Ka alerts tones, for example, are a low pitched single beep. K band false alerts are actually pretty annoying and while the detector may alert less often than other detectors, when it does go off, it’s much more annoying than other detectors. One of my biggest complaints with the RC M is how it sounds when it does go off. Now while the RC M is great at filtering out many false alerts, it will still false occasionally. Speaking of which, if you’d like to learn more, watch this video with Jon Dandrow, the President of Radenso, showing you exactly what a Mazda BSM false looks like, why it’s so hard to filter out, and how it’s different from other vehicles that the detector can filter out. RC M BSM false to Mazda CX-5 (dark SUV ahead in the right lane) The Mazda CX-5 SUV’s are some of the biggest culprits, but those cause every RD to false alert. In general, the main alerts I get from the RC M are from Mazdas and a few GM vehicles. I’m not entirely sure how Radenso is filtering them, but I believe their BSM filter is more sophisticated so it should still alert to legitimate police radar on those frequencies so their implementation is more intelligent. The Net Radar DSP and Uniden R7 can now do it too, but you have to actually disable a small section of K band where those BSM’s exist (24.195 – 24.205 GHz) which prevents alerts to both false and legitimate signals in that frequency range. Up until very recently, they were the only company which offered the ability to filter out pesky BSM’s from Hondas and Acuras. Their blind spot filtering is some of the best in the business. BSM FilteringĮffective BSM filtering is one of the things Radenso is best known for. Range is important of course, and there’s a lot of other factors to consider too when it comes to choosing a well-rounded radar detector. If it has a weakness, it is K band detection in tough terrain against lower powered radar guns with its BSM filters fully enabled. I’m sure Radenso would love for the RC M to be the most sensitive detector on the market for the sake of bragging rights, but even in its current form, I think it’s a solid performing detector. The Radenso RC M almost always offers plenty of advanced warning, even in demanding situations. I found that doing that on a curvy road, the RC M can get almost C/Owned. Against lower powered radar guns like the Kustom Falcon HR or Raptor RP-1, enabling TS Rej High (required for Honda / Acura filtering) can have a pretty substantial negative impact to performance. Against traditional radar guns like the Decatur Genesis II, the RC M gave plenty of advanced warning even with TS Rej High. To get the most effective BSM filtering, you have to set TS Rej to High which can negatively impact range. K band results can vary more though, depending on settings. In my testing, it isn’t the longest range detector on the planet and it didn’t win first place in my latest radar detector shootout, but it is able to hang with the big boys (Radenso RC M is shown in orange below) while also offering a bunch of other useful features too. Next let’s take a radar detection sensitivity and range. Let’s get back to taking a closer look at the radar detector itself. So there’s a lots of custom install options that professional installers can create for your vehicle. Radenso RC M display installed in a RVM by Radar Mirror You can pop off the display and quickly shut the whole system off. This is great in case you’re in an area where radar detectors or laser jammers are prohibited. The display itself is magnetically detachable from the base. The bottom half contains your buttons for powering the unit on and off, changing settings, muting alerts, locking out signals, changing the alert volume, disabling your jammers when shot, etc. The top half is your white OLED display which shows your radar and laser alert info, signal strength, and directional arrows. The Radenso RC M’s display and controller are integrated into one single unit. Most everything about the review video still applies today though, plus you’ll get to see and hear the detector in action. This article is going to go into more detail, plus it adds some additional changes, improvements, new test results, and comparisons with other radar detectors.
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