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Old November 6th 06, 03:40 AM posted to rec.radio.scanner
Al Klein Al Klein is offline
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Default digital scanners

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:47:28 -0500, Phil wrote:

Al Klein wrote in
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On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:02:33 GMT, wrote:

Looking for some recommendations on a good digital scanner to purchase.
Anyone have any recommendations??


Portable or base/mobile? Big city or out in the sticks? 700 MHz?
Multi-site system?


How about a straight answer that covers the different options?


Big city (lots of signals)? Stay away from GRE (most Radio Shack
scanners) - the front end is too sensitive.

Multi-site? Uniden 996 is the only scanner that does it properly so
far. (The Pro-96/2096 sort of does it due to a bug in the firmware.)

700 MHz? Uniden 396 or 996.

Portable? 396 or Pro-96.

Base/Mobile? 996 or 2096.