ICOM R3 owners - Can you give me your opinions
 

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.

"Annonumus" wrote in message
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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.

Do yourself a BIG favor, buy a good triple conversion scanner and a

the Icom R-3 IS a triple conversion scanner.

which is why I'm surprised that there's so many images and birdies on
it.

However, everything you said about the R3 being junk is true.

Icom R3 is a triple conversion scanner below a certain frequency and a
qudruple conversion scanner above a certain frequency.

It is triple conersion on the freqencies that most scanner listeners
would listen to.

However, I can confirm that it does indeed have many images (stations
appearing on frequencies they shouldn't) and many birdies.

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

Whoah, that's a neat idea. Using a scanner to find wireless camera
frequencies and then tuning them on a little portable color TV!

that's just the trouble. The R3 does not scan video frequencies. Even
though it was advertised as being able to do so.

and also advertised as a "video scanner"

In video mode, you have to tune manually.

Sort of Like you had to do with audio on the old Radio Shack Patrolman
radios for audio.

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:18:41 -0400, wrote:

Whoah, that's a neat idea. Using a scanner to find wireless camera
frequencies and then tuning them on a little portable color TV!

that's just the trouble. The R3 does not scan video frequencies. Even
though it was advertised as being able to do so.

and also advertised as a "video scanner"

In video mode, you have to tune manually.

Sort of Like you had to do with audio on the old Radio Shack Patrolman
radios for audio.



Well is there any other machine that will scan video freqs and send
the output to some kind of portable color TV?

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 05:39:48 GMT, Tempest
wrote:

Well is there any other machine that will scan video freqs and send
the output to some kind of portable color TV?

I personally haven't used it, but:

http://www.videoscanner.co.uk/

may have potential. See what you think.

Steve


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