OK, so we are defining your requirements, and that is a good starting point.

You now are looking for a hand held radio, capable of 1 kHz or smaller
tuning steps, and covering the 110-140 MHz range with AM/WFM/NFM. This is a
lot better description than your original "VHF analog tuner". Even better
would be to actually define what you intend to listen to with this radio.
But, working with what we have now you will find there are several options.

I have not used any of the following, I am going on web data only. Confirm
everything before you get serious about getting one.

ICOM IC R-10 (0.1 kHz steps)
ICOM IC R-20 (0.01 kHz steps)

Yaesu VR-100 (0.1 kHz Steps)

Alinco DJ-X10T (0.05 kHz steps)
Alinco DJ-X2000 (0.05 kHz steps)

AOR AR8200 Mk III (0.05 kHz steps)

And I am sure there are others as well, this is just the first six I ran
into. All of the above are receivers only. There are also several amateur
handhelds that do the same kind of thing, but include a transmit function on
specific bands/frequencies. These are current models only, including the
used market would even lead to a larger list.

C!

"Michael J." wrote in message
...
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 16:47:23 GMT, "Colic"
wrote:

I understand the desire to actually have a dial to turn, I like tuning in
this method myself. But, a synthesized rig with adequately small tuning
steps should not be a problem for any application I can think of.

Agreed. I've been searching the net for a handheld scanner capable of
tuning in
small increments. Unfortunately it seems that almost all scanners (or at
least the
ones I've seen) have a minimum tuning increment of 5khz steps. I would
like to be
able to tune as finely as possible.

If I get a scanner that is digitally tuned, then something like 1khz or
0.5khz tuning
steps would probably work fine. Question: which handheld scanners will
allow tuning
in these small increments? Make? Models? Thanks

MJ