"crb" wrote in message ...
just saw one in a magazine for the first time. sure looks like it has a
lot of features and is compact.

what are the pro's and con's of this radio? Is there one better?

As long as you do not need Mil Air, they are great. If you are wanting
trunked systems, and have used other scanners, they take some getting used
to. If you program manually you have to kind of "un learn" what you knew.
Took me a couple hours to get mine going when I first got it, but it is
great because of how small it is. I found on mine one of the 800 MHz
antennas did make an improvement listening to the 800 police. Others have
said they did not help.
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