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PASSPORT 7500 Radar • Laser • Safety Detector
Quick Reference Guide 2-3 EZ Programming 10-14
• How to use EZ Programming 1 0
Installation 4-5
• Example of Programming 1 0
• Power Connection 4
• Overview of Programming 1 1
• Mounting Location 4
• Details of Programming 12-14
• Windshield Mount 5
Technical Details 15-21
Controls and Features 6-9
• Specifications 1 5
• Power and volume control 6
• Interpreting Alerts 16-17
• Power-on indication 6
• How Radar Works 1 8
• AutoMute 6
• How Laser Works
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Quick Reference Guide To begin using your Passport, EasyMount Slot just follow these simple steps Insert Passport’s adjustable Windshield mount into this slot. Pg 4-5 1 Plug the small end of the power cord into the side jack, and plug the large end of the power cord into your car’s EasyMount Button lighter socket. Press and slide the Windshield mount to one of its four positions. Pg 5 2 Mount your Passport on the windshield using the windshield mount. AutoMute 3 Rotate the volume thumbwheel on P
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Quick Reference Guide Radar Antenna and Laser Lens EZ Programming The back of your Passport should have Passport is ready to go– just plug it in a clear view of the road ahead. For and turn it on. But you can also easily best performance, do not mount Pass- change 10 features for your prefer- port directly behind windshield wipers ences. Press both top buttons to enter or tinted areas. Pg 4 the Program Mode, then easily Review or Change your settings. Pg 10-14 Mute Button Briefly press this butt
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Power Connection and Mounting Location Power Connection Mounting Location To power Passport, plug the small end of WARNING: ESCORT cannot anticipate the the supplied coiled power cord into the many ways Passport can be mounted. It is telephone-type power jack on Passport's important that you mount Passport where left side, and plug the lighter adapter into it will not impair your view nor present a your vehicle's lighter socket or accessory hazard in case of an accident. socket. Where to mount P
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Windshield Mount Windshield Mount Passport’s EasyMount windshield bracket 3 Mount Passport on your windshield. is designed for unobtrusive and hassle-free Using the EasyMount adjustment button, mounting. slide Passport forward or backward to a horizontal position. 1 Insert each suction cup into large end of bracket hole and rotate cup outward, To ensure that the suction cups adhere to locking into place. A spare set of suction the windshield firmly, be sure to keep both cups is included for your
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Controls and Features Power and volume control Mute To turn Passport on and adjust the alert The Mute button, located on Passport’s tone volume level, rotate the thumbwheel front panel, allows you to totally silence on Passport's left side. Turn the control the audio alert during a radar encounter. away from you to increase the audio vol- To mute the audio for a single specific ume. When you turn Passport on, it goes signal, briefly press the Mute Button. After through a sequence of alerts. that
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Controls and Features Dim / Dark Switch Audible Alerts Passport’s Dim button selects the bright- For Radar signals: ness of Passport’s display. There are four Passport uses a geiger-counter-like settings: Maximum, Medium, Minimum, and sound to indicate the signal strength and Dark. Press the Dim button to select your type of radar signal being encountered. preferred brightness. When you encounter radar, a distinct Each time you turn Passport on, it Audible Alert will sound and occur faster as au
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Controls and Indicators Power Connector Signal Strength Meter Passport’s new power jack uses a tele- Passport’s new matrix display consists of phone-type connector. This new 4-con- 280 individual LED’s, to provide an intui- ductor connector works with the included tive ultra-bright display of signal strength coiled cord, and with our optional new and text messages. SmartCord MuteDisplay. When Passport detects radar, it dis- The SmartCord is a special power cord plays the band of the radar (X, K,
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Controls and Indicators However, Passport’s ExpertMeter si- || || |||| KA K X multaneously tracks up to 8 radar signals. It Here ExpertMeter shows 1 strong K-band shows you detailed information on up to 2 signal, and three X-band signals, two strong Ka-band, 2 K-band, and 4 X-band signals. ExpertMeter can help you spot a and one weak. change in your normal driving environ- ment; for example, a traffic radar unit being || || |||| KA K X operated in an area where there are nor- Here ExpertMeter sh
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How to customize Passport with EZ Programming There are 10 user-selectable options so you An example can customize your Passport 7500 for your For example, here’s how you would turn own preferences. The buttons that are nor- Passport’s AutoMute feature off. mally used for CITY and DIM are used to enter the Program Mode, to REVIEW your 1 Enter the Program Mode by holding current program settings, and to CHANGE both buttons down for 2 seconds. Passport any settings as desired. Pages 12-14 explain
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Overview of EZ Programming Options Press the REVIEW button Press the CHANGE button to go from one category to change your setting to the next within a category HH PILOT LIGHT Pilot HWY (full word: Highway or Auto or City) * (Power-on indication) Pilot H (letter: H or A or C) (letter, with scanning dot) Pilot H.> . Pilot + (symbol: + or or – ) Pilot +.> (symbol, with scanning dot) Pilot +> (scanning symbol) POWER-ON SEQUENCE PwrOn STD (standard power-on sequence) * PwrOn FST (fast power-on se
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Details of EZ Programming Options Pilot Light (power-on indication) Power-on Sequence Note: when you are using the Dark mode, PwrOnSTD (standar d) the display will only show HD, AD, or CD, In this setting, each time you turn on Pass- (Highway-Dark, Auto-Dark, or City-Dark). port, it will display "Passport 7500", "LA- SER", "Ka-band", "K-band", "X-band", fol- PilotHWY (full descr iption) lowed by a brief X-band alert. (factory de- In this setting, Passpor t will displa y fault) "Highw ay," "City
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Details of EZ Programming Options AutoMute City Mode Sensitivity aMute ON (autom ute on) City STD (Standar d) In this setting, Passport’s audio alerts will In this setting, when you put Passport in initially be at the volume you set, but after the City mode, X-band sensitivity is signifi- a few seconds, Passport will automatically cantly reduced, to reduce annoyance from reduce the volume level, to keep you in- X-band intrusion alarms and motion sen- formed, but not annoyed. (factory default) so
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Details of EZ Programming Options Brightness Dark Mode Brt LAST (Last) Dark STD (standar d) In this setting, when y ou tur n on P ass- In this setting, when you select the dark por t, the displa y will be the last br ight- mode, the only display will be a very dim ness y ou had selected dur ing oper ation HD, AD, or CD, indicating Highway-Dark, with the dim button. (factor y default) Auto-Dark, or City-Dark). (factory default) Brt MIN (Minim um) DarkALL (all) In this setting, each time y ou tur
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Specifications Features and Specifications Programmable Features Operating Bands • Power-On Indication • X-band 10.525 GHz ± 25 MHz • Power-On Sequence • K-band 24.150 GHz ± 100 MHz • Signal Strength Meter • Ka-band 34.700 GHz ± 1300 MHz • AutoMute • Laser 900nm, 33 MHz bandwidth • Audio Tones • City Mode Sensitivity Radar Receiver / Detector Type • Display Brightness • Dark Mode • Superheterodyne, GaAs FET VCO • Safety Warning System Alerts • Scanning Frequency Discriminator • Safety Pilot Aler
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Interpreting Alerts Although Passport has a comprehensive of radar being used, the type of transmis- warning system and this handbook is as sion (continuous or instant-on) and the complete as we can make it, only expe- location of the radar source. rience will teach you what to expect The following examples will give from your Passport and how to interpret you an introduction to understanding what it “tells” you. The radar alerts you Passport’s warning system for radar, la- receive are affected
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Interpreting Alerts Alert Explanation Passport alerts intermittently. Rate and A patrol car is travelling in front of you with a strength of alerts may be consistent or vary radar source aimed forward. Because signals wildly. are sometimes reflected off of large objects and sometimes not, the alerts may seem inconsistent. Passport alerts intermittently. Rate and A patrol car is approaching from the other strength of signal increases with each alert. direction, “sampling” traffic with instant-on
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How Radar Works How Radar Works Traffic radar, which consists of microwaves, Radar range also depends on the power travels in straight lines and is easily re- of the radar equipment itself. The strength flected by objects such as cars, trucks, even of the radar unit’s beam diminishes with guardrails and overpasses. Radar works by distance. The farther the radar has to travel, directing its microwave beam down the the less energy it has for speed detection. road. As your vehicle travels into rang
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How Laser Works How Laser (Lidar) Works Laser speed detection is actually LIDAR There are limitations to LIDAR equip- (Light Detection And Ranging). LIDAR guns ment. LIDAR is much more sensitive to project a beam of invisible infrared light. weather conditions than RADAR, and a The signal is a series of very short infrared LIDAR gun’s range will be decreased by light energy pulses which move in a straight anything affecting visibility such as rain, line, reflecting off your car and returning to
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How Safety Radar Works How Safety Radar Works There are two separate Safety Radar sys- Note: some of the safety messages tems in limited use today: Safety Alert, and have been condensed, so each message Safety Warning System (SWS). Both sys- can be displayed on one or two screens on tems use modified K-band radar signals. Passport’s eight character display. From the factory, your Passport is pro- Since Safety radar technology is rela- grammed with safety radar decoding OFF. tively new and the nu
