T-bone wrote:
wrote in news:1105980741.679905.177450
@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
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So yes, people advertsing their scanners as UNBLOCKED !!!!! are really saying
very little in practice - The only good reason to pay a premium to get one
would be to bank on the possibility that some other service of interest will
eventually move into this frequency region.
That's not entirely true. Take Icom, and Yaesu, for example. When they
block out the cellular portion fo the spectrum, they block out
additional bandwidth below, and above the frequencies that the FCC
requires them to omit. So you may not be able to monitor perfectly
legal trunked systems, because they fall into this blocked-overlap, so
to speak. In addition to that , many radios have to block portions of
the spectrum that are in an entirely different band, due to the
possibility of receiving cellular images. So you end up with a very
crippled radio!
Bill Crocker