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Old February 5th 05, 05:55 PM
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I'm not sure what you would consider "higher-end", but there are

plenty
of
"regular" scanners that have WFM.

Generally anything costing you more than $150 to $200, and that

includes
Trunk Tracking, I would classify as "higher-end". You won't find WFM

on
the
majority of (if any) "regular" scanners.


Very few scanners don't have WFM.


According to this FAQ, looks like the majority of the NON-Trunking

"regular"
SCANNERS don't have WFM... Perhaps you get your information from some

other
planet?


What FAQ??
Every scanner that I have has WFM - and I do not own trunking scanners -
some of my scanners have been cheap arsed pieces of ****e, some are good
quality, but all have had WFM.
Uniden 200 XLT
Uniden 220 XLT
Icom IC-R3
Winradio 1500e
Icom PCR 1000
------ All of these have WFM

Maybe 20 to 30 years ago, WFM was not available in most scanners, but as BOG
has said, (and I hate to back him up, but here I must), very few scanners
don't have WFM. Perhaps you could advise which new scanners do not?



Matt


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Old February 5th 05, 06:20 PM
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"Matt" wrote in message
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"FeMaster" FeMaster @ hotmail . com wrote in message
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"Barry OGrady" wrote in message
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I'm not sure what you would consider "higher-end", but there are

plenty
of
"regular" scanners that have WFM.

Generally anything costing you more than $150 to $200, and that

includes
Trunk Tracking, I would classify as "higher-end". You won't find WFM

on
the
majority of (if any) "regular" scanners.

Very few scanners don't have WFM.


According to this FAQ, looks like the majority of the NON-Trunking

"regular"
SCANNERS don't have WFM... Perhaps you get your information from some

other
planet?


What FAQ??
Every scanner that I have has WFM - and I do not own trunking scanners -
some of my scanners have been cheap arsed pieces of ****e, some are good
quality, but all have had WFM.
Uniden 200 XLT
Uniden 220 XLT
Icom IC-R3
Winradio 1500e
Icom PCR 1000
------ All of these have WFM

Maybe 20 to 30 years ago, WFM was not available in most scanners, but as
BOG
has said, (and I hate to back him up, but here I must), very few scanners
don't have WFM. Perhaps you could advise which new scanners do not?



Matt



I had a 200 XLT years ago it didn't have Wide FM?


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Old February 6th 05, 11:38 PM
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"Jim" wrote in message
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"Matt" wrote in message
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"FeMaster" FeMaster @ hotmail . com wrote in message
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"Barry OGrady" wrote in message
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I'm not sure what you would consider "higher-end", but there are

plenty
of
"regular" scanners that have WFM.

Generally anything costing you more than $150 to $200, and that

includes
Trunk Tracking, I would classify as "higher-end". You won't find

WFM
on
the
majority of (if any) "regular" scanners.

Very few scanners don't have WFM.


According to this FAQ, looks like the majority of the NON-Trunking

"regular"
SCANNERS don't have WFM... Perhaps you get your information from some

other
planet?


What FAQ??
Every scanner that I have has WFM - and I do not own trunking scanners -
some of my scanners have been cheap arsed pieces of ****e, some are good
quality, but all have had WFM.
Uniden 200 XLT
Uniden 220 XLT
Icom IC-R3
Winradio 1500e
Icom PCR 1000
------ All of these have WFM

Maybe 20 to 30 years ago, WFM was not available in most scanners, but as
BOG
has said, (and I hate to back him up, but here I must), very few

scanners
don't have WFM. Perhaps you could advise which new scanners do not?


I had a 200 XLT years ago it didn't have Wide FM?

That's because the pair of them have no idea what they are talking about...
Either that, or they buy their equipment on another planet...




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Old February 6th 05, 11:36 PM
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"Matt" wrote in message
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"FeMaster" FeMaster @ hotmail . com wrote in message
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"Barry OGrady" wrote in message
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Very few scanners don't have WFM.


According to this FAQ, looks like the majority of the NON-Trunking
"regular"
SCANNERS don't have WFM... Perhaps you get your information from some
other
planet?


What FAQ??


Sorry, forgot the URL:
http://www.strongsignals.net/access/content/model.html


Every scanner that I have has WFM - and I do not own trunking scanners -
some of my scanners have been cheap arsed pieces of ****e, some are good
quality, but all have had WFM.
Uniden 200 XLT
Uniden 220 XLT
Icom IC-R3
Winradio 1500e
Icom PCR 1000
------ All of these have WFM

Icon and Winradio are not Scanners for starters, let alone "regular"
scanners...

Perhaps your should inform those guys over at Strong Signals that their
Scanner FAQ is incorrect, or better yet, the guys over at Uniden. I'm sure
they would be interested to know how you ended up with version of their
scanners that have a feature that was never designed into the unit to start
with. Must be by some miracle that your two Uniden scanners have WFM. How
did you manage to modify them to get it? I'd bet the rest of the world
would LOVE to know. I'm sure that it would certainly become a pretty
popular mod.

Maybe 20 to 30 years ago, WFM was not available in most scanners, but as

BOG
has said, (and I hate to back him up, but here I must), very few scanners
don't have WFM.

BOG is as much uninformed as your are. You both need to research what your
talking about, because neither has a clue... Just to satisfy the ignorant,
I did some research on the current listing of scanners over at the Uniden
site... As suspected, NONE of the "regular" scanners have WFM. Matter of
fact, even a number of the Trunk-tracking scanners do not have WFM. Only
the more recent HIGHER-END scanners come with WFM.

Of the 24 scanners listed on the site, a measly 5 come with WFM... So, I
think the statements that both of you made are backwards, they should have
read, "...very few scanners [DO] have WFM.

Perhaps you could advise which new scanners do not?

Inform you, sure... The 5 listed on Uniden's site that DO HAVE WFM a
BC796D, BC785D, BC780XLT, BC296D, BC250D - THAT's IT!

Which ones DON'T? The other 19 of course, which includes MANY new models:
BC246T, BC72XLT, BC895XLT, BC898T, BC92XLT, SC230, BCT8, BCT7, BC350A,
BC350C, BC80XLT, BC60XLT-1, SC200, SC180B, BC278CLT, BC248CLT, BC245XLT,
BC244CLT, BC120XLT

In the future, maybe it would be advisable for the two of you to do some
more research before you start typing and spreading falsities all over
UseNET...


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Old February 10th 05, 01:59 PM
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"Matt" wrote in message
What FAQ??


Sorry, forgot the URL:
http://www.strongsignals.net/access/content/model.html


Interesting URL - thanks for the reference.

Perhaps your should inform those guys over at Strong Signals that their
Scanner FAQ is incorrect, or better yet, the guys over at Uniden. I'm

sure
they would be interested to know how you ended up with version of their
scanners that have a feature that was never designed into the unit to

start
with. Must be by some miracle that your two Uniden scanners have WFM.

How
did you manage to modify them to get it? I'd bet the rest of the world
would LOVE to know. I'm sure that it would certainly become a pretty
popular mod.


Ooops, appologies I was wrong. Most of my radio gear is in storage as I am
moving house at the moment so was unable to check and posted blind - me bad.

Maybe 20 to 30 years ago, WFM was not available in most scanners, but as

BOG
has said, (and I hate to back him up, but here I must), very few

scanners
don't have WFM.

BOG is as much uninformed as your are. You both need to research what

your
talking about, because neither has a clue... Just to satisfy the

ignorant,
I did some research on the current listing of scanners over at the Uniden
site... As suspected, NONE of the "regular" scanners have WFM. Matter of
fact, even a number of the Trunk-tracking scanners do not have WFM. Only
the more recent HIGHER-END scanners come with WFM.


Fair point - should have looked before I opened my mouth.

Of the 24 scanners listed on the site, a measly 5 come with WFM... So, I
think the statements that both of you made are backwards, they should have
read, "...very few scanners [DO] have WFM.

Perhaps you could advise which new scanners do not?

Inform you, sure... The 5 listed on Uniden's site that DO HAVE WFM a
BC796D, BC785D, BC780XLT, BC296D, BC250D - THAT's IT!

Which ones DON'T? The other 19 of course, which includes MANY new models:
BC246T, BC72XLT, BC895XLT, BC898T, BC92XLT, SC230, BCT8, BCT7, BC350A,
BC350C, BC80XLT, BC60XLT-1, SC200, SC180B, BC278CLT, BC248CLT, BC245XLT,
BC244CLT, BC120XLT

In the future, maybe it would be advisable for the two of you to do some
more research before you start typing and spreading falsities all over
UseNET...






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What FAQ??
Every scanner that I have has WFM - and I do not own trunking scanners -
some of my scanners have been cheap arsed pieces of ****e, some are good
quality, but all have had WFM.
------------------------------------------------
whee I am, the only trunking scanners I have seen for sale do not have
WFM at all.

My new scanner that does not do trunk tracking at all does have WFM.

So I have to agree with you

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Old February 11th 05, 05:03 AM
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What FAQ??
Every scanner that I have has WFM - and I do not own trunking scanners -
some of my scanners have been cheap arsed pieces of ****e, some are good
quality, but all have had WFM.
------------------------------------------------
whee I am, the only trunking scanners I have seen for sale do not have
WFM at all.

My new scanner that does not do trunk tracking at all does have WFM.

So I have to agree with you


You cant take one scanner and base "I agree" on that! I'll take a Ferrari
and say all cars can do 170 mph! Good God at least do some reading!



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