I believe this is my first post on this newsgroup. I was into the
scanning hobby a number of years ago...not heavily though. I had a
uniden bct7 mobile scanner & the uniden sportcat 150 (was one that had
the defect that allowed cellular phones to be heard on the "800"
band). I still have my sportcat, but want to get something a bit more
serious (more freq. bands, channels, capabilities etc. etc.).
When the Icom IC-R3 first came out it was about 500-600 bucks (if i
remember right).... i liked it a lot but didnt want to shell out that
kind of cash for a scanner. About that time I also kinda lost interest
in the hobby.
I was sufing around on the net the other day & ran across the IC-R3
again at an electronics website & saw that it had dropped in price to
about $319. THIS new price & the coincidence that my employer just
bought a cheap X10 wireless security camera & had secreted it
somewhere at work (noone knows where) made me want to buy one (for
those that might not know...the IC-R3 can pick up wireless camera &
Television signals).

Anyway I just wanted to hear opinions from people who own or have
used this scanner.
I still dont plan on being a serious scanning enthusiest (cant
afford it..lol).