Comments on: Cobra Free Useful Roadmap

By: Chang

Chang — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:56:19 +0000

This is the first and only CB I have ever owned. It was the most economical and compact. I enjoy the PA function as well as being able to communicate with truckers about traffic.

By: Qiao

Qiao — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:58:17 +0000

It's a decent unit, and cobra is a great company, but there is much better. The midland 1001z is much better built and has much better sound quality and features.

That being said, here's why this radio gets three stars. My main issue is the new digital setup on this radio. It pops as signals come in and out of the squelch range. This gets very annoying when you want to just cut out the white noise and hear as much as you can. If someone is right on the border of your signal range, they will pop as they cut in and out, where as other radios will feather in and out, or hold the signal until they quit transmitting. The previous generation of this radio (with the separate LED lights for the meter) was MUCH better in this regard. If you must have a cobra, look for that version, or go to another model. Cobra just went too cheap on this one, but you still pay a premium for the name. All the components feel needlessly light compared to the competition, and also compared to older cobra's themselves. The one missing feature that others have is the RF gain. Very handy and doesn't seem like it'd be much trouble for them to add it, but they reserve that for their expensive radios.

Again, on it's own, this is a good radio, but when you look at it side by side with it's cheaper priced competition, the choice is easy.

By: Iverson

Iverson — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:30:01 +0000

I have used this radio for several months now and am very happy with it. It gets out well and receives well and has good sound. It is small and compact so it does not take up a lot of room. Great buy for the money.

By: Parisi

Parisi — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:06:42 +0000

I have found a couple of camera’s that this product did not show up. I plan on turning these in but how many more is out there that i don’t know about. I pass a THP one night and never got no signal warning but there is always that chance that he wasn’t running radar. More time will tell before i take off and se it on a trip.

By: Ketman

Ketman — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:54:41 +0000

1 Fantastic value 4 your money!
3rd Cobra product in Auto Radar Detection
Easy to set up and download updates
Great LIFETIME UPDATES Service by Cobra owned company
Ez to hide on dash and while you park your car
Easy to program every function
Caught every camera and "Danger" zone so far in 10 days of driving, 1200 miles.
I drive 50-60k miles a year
I raced cars in 8 states
I drag race, drift & AutoX as well as street race
I burn rubber daily & I CHIRP-POWER-CLUTCH BRAKE daily
I'm a good landlord and rich, but I want to feel like a "child" daily.
I'm a Litigation paralegal with 114 court cases of experience.
I got 2 moving violations this year and am at 1 point on my drivers license.
This has slowed me down and made me stop at yellows vs. "zoom through".
GREAT BEHAVIOR CONTROL INSTRUMENT FOR AGGRESSIVE DRIVERS!!!

By: Moller

Moller — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:01:31 +0000

The Cobra XRS is a blanket to the city/highway driver. The Cobra XRS 9960G let’s you once again enjoy driving.What a product. Thank you Cobra,keep it up.

By: Liu

Liu — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:40:54 +0000

As an engineer I have done some repeatable tests and every time I got same results, hence this unit is reliable in my opinion. I was able to pick all traffic photo enforcement areas and radars in different states. Display of GPS coordinate is a cool feature when you need to let others know where you are at. The “small USB” based GPS antenna should be reinforced a little bit for more mechanical ruggedness. I am not using the octopus grip clips that comes with the kit. Again…. design problem, The grip, length & angle of metallic piece, total weight of the detector do not match and fells from wind shield after a few road bumps. It is not major thing, you can buy different mount or stand.

Over all I am pleased with the product.

By: Iglesias

Iglesias — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:31:05 +0000

This is an outstanding product and best value for the buck of all radar detectors I have seen or heard about.
The only con I saw so far is that it gets some false alarms. Nevertheless, better safe than sorry - all it does is respond to beams and frequencies. It does have a toggle button city/highway to mitigate significantly false alarms, yet when you are on the freeway, it better be on highway mode.
Now to the good stuff: It has a sweet display, way better than even the high end detectors have!
The GPS module is a genius idea. You'll be surprised how many red-light cameras are out there that you are unaware of. AND EVEN if you are familiar with them, it turns out to be a great reminder and a wakeup call right and ahead of time.
This toy has already saved me twice so it has already paid for itself!!! I've gotta tell you one very important thing readers, and I hope this will not be censored: Lately, if you've noticed, there is an increasing number of patrol officers PICKING ON PEOPLE TO GENERATE MORE REVENUE TO THE GOVERNMENT, WHO IS DEEP IN DEBT. So it's not that I don't drive safely - I DO. But it's time we be ahead of the game here!
It covers virtually every type of radar detection out there!
It has a compass, it can show your car battery voltage power, it can display your speed and you can set a threshold speed after which you'll get a warning. It can show you your GPS coordinates at all times. Beautiful easy to get interface to configure the device to your preferences. What more could you ask for?
So you see, not only is it a fine radar detector - it is much more than that. No other radar detector even comes close feature-wise - and that's where I see this product's strength. I am extremely happy with this purchase.

By: Alkes

Alkes — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:43:48 +0000

This detector works very well and the automute is one of the nicest features that will take the volume down after several seconds when a signal was detected.
Unfortunately, the loudest settings is still a bit low in volume when you listen to some loud music in your car.

By: Ho

Ho — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:56:48 +0000

I have always had detectors and found this one at a very good price. I have had it for a couple of months and it has done it’s job four times. The Auto-Mute is a great feature, but I do agree that if you have your radio loud you will need to make sure to monitor your detector. Even the volume’s highest setting is not that loud. Overall I am very satisfied with the radar detector.