"Toscano" wrote in message ...

... this strange item

http://www.monitoringtimes.com/cgi-b...c;f=1;t=000079

Take a look at the Monitoring Times BBS for a post by a lister who saw
them at Heartland America for $19.99. Though this is a guess, I'm
positive that you're getting a refurbished Scanocular for that price.
As I buy lots of secondhand stuff at yard sales and thrift stores, I
have absolutely no problem with that notion. Note that at HA, you pay
$30 upfront and wait for a $10 rebate.

In the lister's words: "A Scanner featuring 800 MHz, triple conversion
reception, 100-channel memory, alphanumeric display, fast action scan
and search, weather channel scan and mini-jack headphone. Manufactured
by Uniden. You can't beat that price ! Under 20 bucks."

http://www.heartlandamerica.com/Item...asp?SKU=59882#

The antenna looks removable to me. If I didn't already have so many
scanners that I can barely cross the room, I'd probably buy one
myself. Maybe I will anyway. For that price, it's hard to go wrong,
isn't it?

Best wishes.

(Beloved Leader) wrote in
om:

Take a look at the Monitoring Times BBS for a post by a lister who saw
them at Heartland America for $19.99. Though this is a guess, I'm
positive that you're getting a refurbished Scanocular for that price.
As I buy lots of secondhand stuff at yard sales and thrift stores, I
have absolutely no problem with that notion. Note that at HA, you pay
$30 upfront and wait for a $10 rebate.

In the lister's words: "A Scanner featuring 800 MHz, triple conversion
reception, 100-channel memory, alphanumeric display, fast action scan
and search, weather channel scan and mini-jack headphone. Manufactured
by Uniden. You can't beat that price ! Under 20 bucks."

http://www.heartlandamerica.com/Item...asp?SKU=59882#

The antenna looks removable to me. If I didn't already have so many
scanners that I can barely cross the room, I'd probably buy one
myself. Maybe I will anyway. For that price, it's hard to go wrong,
isn't it?

Best wishes.


I'm surprised no one thought of doing this to an air-band receiver. That
would be just the thing for air shows. Now if we can do this kinda'
thing to a scanner, maybe we can make one that's about the size of your
average walkman and has a tape recorder or mini-disc recorder in it for
recording stuff off the scanner. That'd really be cool. I have a Sony
MZ-R37 mini-disc recorder connected to my Uniden 780 for recording. It
does a pretty nice job.

Jeff Seale wrote in message .199.17...
I'm surprised no one thought of doing this to an air-band receiver.

But the Scannocular (apparently, the correct spelling has two "n's",
so Google for both spellings) is an air-band receiver.

http://strongsignals.net/access/boar...ges/14252.html


Posted by Rich Wells, N2MCA on June 07, 2000 at 05:53:04:
In Reply to: Memorex Scanocular posted by Dave VK2GZ on June 06, 2000
at 19:32:08:

Is this unit wide band, for example, does it have the air band
and millitary air band?

No mil aero band...not for $200!

Here's the info I have on it:
88-108
108-137
137-174
406-470
475.75-511.75
806-823.9375
851-868.9375
896.1125-956


Yes, you can listen to FM on it as well. Darn, this just gets to be a
better bargain every minute. Maybe Big Lots will sell them.

(Beloved Leader) wrote in
om:

Jeff Seale wrote in message
.199.17...
I'm surprised no one thought of doing this to an air-band receiver.

But the Scannocular (apparently, the correct spelling has two "n's",
so Google for both spellings) is an air-band receiver.

http://strongsignals.net/access/boar...ges/14252.html


Posted by Rich Wells, N2MCA on June 07, 2000 at 05:53:04:
In Reply to: Memorex Scanocular posted by Dave VK2GZ on June 06, 2000
at 19:32:08:

Is this unit wide band, for example, does it have the air band
and millitary air band?

No mil aero band...not for $200!

Here's the info I have on it:
88-108
108-137
137-174
406-470
475.75-511.75
806-823.9375
851-868.9375
896.1125-956


Yes, you can listen to FM on it as well. Darn, this just gets to be a
better bargain every minute. Maybe Big Lots will sell them.


Heck, if you're REALLY looking for this at a price lower than $200,
check out eBay once in a while.