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January 19th 05, 05:09 AM
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Bill Crocker wrote in
: T-bone wrote: wrote in news:1105980741.679905.177450 @c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com: [clipped] So yes, people advertsing their scanners as UNBLOCKED !!!!! are really saying very little in practice - The only good reason to pay a premium to get one would be to bank on the possibility that some other service of interest will eventually move into this frequency region. That's not entirely true. Take Icom, and Yaesu, for example. When they block out the cellular portion fo the spectrum, they block out additional bandwidth below, and above the frequencies that the FCC requires them to omit. So you may not be able to monitor perfectly legal trunked systems, because they fall into this blocked-overlap, so to speak. In addition to that , many radios have to block portions of the spectrum that are in an entirely different band, due to the possibility of receiving cellular images. So you end up with a very crippled radio! Bill Crocker Well ... I guess its only crippled insofar as theres anything in the blocked portions worth listening to - And if Icom ect are dumb enough to block legit portions, then I simply would not purchase one. As far as blocking possible mirror freqs, I imagine they would be in the 700-900 range, and as such not much of a sacrifice. I thought the law was stupid when first enacted, and haven't changed that opinion. The responsibility to ensure private comms should have rested exclusively with cell phone providers - And as we all know, anyone with half a notion could listen to them nonetheless. I've learned to live with the ban though, and even though I have radios perfectly capable of receiving blocked bands, I never do - And would not pay much of a premium for a scanner that is unblocked ... Except, like I said, as a hedge against someday a service of interest moving to these bands. |
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