On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:11:48 GMT, "Dr. Rastis Fafoofnik"
wrote:


"Annonumus" wrote in message
. com...
Can you please tell me what you like (or don't like) about the R3. I am
interested in it and want to know its capibilties. Question, is it
concidered a scanner or just a wide band reciever? Thanks for any
thoughts.


First off, I have one at work, provided by my employer. IT's a piece of
crap! and here are the reasons....

1 Eats batteries like a dead short.
2 **** poor front end performance
3 "images" like crazy
4 completely misses the "Video" portion of wireless camera bands
5 not much of a TV rcvr
6 controls are very hard to use
7 did I tell you it eats batteries? MAYBE an hour on a set.

Do yourself a BIG favor, buy a good triple conversion scanner and a Casio 3
or 4 inch pocket TV. That way BOTH will do a good job (I carry a Casio
TV-4000 4" display)

The Icom R-3 has been a major disappointment, a real black eye for Icom,
they can't give them away.



Whoah, that's a neat idea. Using a scanner to find wireless camera
frequencies and then tuning them on a little portable color TV! What
kind of output does the scanner need to have to make this possible?
Also, what is the frequencty range of the wireless cameras?

THanks