I'm looking for recommendations for a couple of scanners, once my
finances recover from the annual Christmas-shopping blitz. ;-) I'll
probably hunt for them via eBay and monitor the newsgroups for for-sale
listings -- right now I'm just doing "research."

One is to be a mobile, with a mounting bracket; the other will primarily
be used as a base unit. Both should be capable of trunk-tracking, plus
I prefer they be able to receive the military aircraft band (225-400 MHz
AM). Coverage of the 10m amateur band's FM sub-band -- to monitor the
FM repeaters in that band and the simplex channels -- is a plus, but the
lack of it isn't a deal-breaker.

One major feature I really need in each is the ability to program them
via a computer. That way I can take the same database of channels and
"dump" them into the scanner so that whatever I do to the base can also
be mirrored in the mobile, and vice versa. Alphanumeric displays for
the scanners are a MAJOR plus.

Make/model recommendations greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!


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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
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