Uniden r7 vs escort redline 360c full#
If you drive faster than this speed, the detector runs at full sensitivity (Highway mode). With Auto Mode, you set a speed threshold, ie. With the R8 on K band, I wanted to see how its new Auto Mode affects performance, and if TSF impacts performance. Starting off, let’s look at just the R8’s runs and then explain things a bit. With K band there were a lot of different settings combinations to test with each detector so I dropped things down to just 2 passes per detector / settings combos. It was the R7 that surprised me by falling behind more than the very top tier detectors. Then with 35.5, the R8 once again trailed a bit behind some detectors like the R元60c, V1 Gen2, and R4, but it outperformed the R7 and naturally the DP360. Strong showing by the R8 among tough competition. Moving on to 34.7, the R8 lagged a bit behind the V1 Gen2 and was a smidge behind the R4, but overall it beat the R7, R元60c, and DP360.
I forgot to do a 3rd run with the R元60c so it only got 2. I wanted to doublecheck my work with the R8 so I gave it an extra 4th run at the very end because I was worried about traffic and it still managed to outperform every other brand of detectors.) Since traffic/construction had been such an issue in previous tests, I made a point to keep swapping detectors after each pass to get a variety of data in quickly, just in case traffic started messing up the results later down the line. They managed to overall outperform the other detectors. Starting off with 33.8, the newer Uniden platform detectors (R4 & R8) were off to a great start. Cobra DualPro 360 (fw 1.2) Provides context as a mid-tier detector.Uniden R4 (fw 1.23) Is it comparable to the R8?.Valentine 1 Gen2 (fw 4.1027) Valentine’s top performer.Escort Redline 360c (fw 1.9) Escort’s top performer.Uniden R7 (fw 1.41) to see the improvement from R7 -> R8.Detectors TestedĮvery detector tested was there for a very specific purpose. These test results are simply one part of the overall puzzle. We need to see lots of tests with lots of detectors against lots of guns in lots of different terrains to get an accurate sense of the big picture. Please don’t take these results alone as gospel. Rarely does this stuff go to plan, but on that day I really wanted to get as much done as possible, so I heavily cut down the number of detectors tested so that I could test on all 3 Ka frequencies as well as on K band.Īs always, this is just one test. (The video above is one of the test passes from this day of testing.)įinally another trip to the red barn course, I finally got results that I’m satisfied with (mostly, lol). After several hours of testing, we opted to discard all the results and try another day. Results were very inconsistent and honestly all over the place. While it’s true that we can’t control all the variables in testing, this was way too much. Uh oh… It turns out this was a hand-soldered preproduction unit that was useful for looking at the design and features of the detector, but didn’t perform on par with a retail unit.įor the third test we went back to the red barn, but traffic and construction were a significant factor and heavily affected the results. I secretly ran the first R8 I received on both this test and this test, but the R8 performed worse than expected, closer to the R7 or sometimes R3, lagging noticeably compared to the R4. So it actually took me 4 attempts (!!) to get a solid set of test results that I’m comfortable sharing.
This Was More Time Consuming Than I Expected You can read my full Uniden R8 review here. I’ve been really curious to see how much better the R8 performs and so I headed back to my usual red barn test course to test the R8 against all the top contenders on both K band and Ka band. The Uniden R8 ( purchase here) improves upon the performance of the already strong Uniden R7 by adding a new dual LNA design as well as an upgraded condenser lens in front of the horn.
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