My ultimate scanner would let me:
1. Allow to transmit on the frequency I am monitoring.

(Please add your wish)

Greetings Jim! I understand the desire to be able to talk back to the
people you hear, but you do realize that is illegal. We had a crazy
ham in this neck of the woods who converted his 2 meter to the county
sheriffs department freq and ended up in jail for about 2 years for
malicious interference. Needless to say he is no longer a ham either.

I don't know what I would want as the perfect scanner as everything is
changing so fast. I don't even have a trunked scanner here yet, but
only the highway patrol is trunked now. I would love to have a trunked
scanner with a blue backlite screen. 200 memories is enough for me.
Why not get your ham licence and do some chatting on the legal ham
freqs? I will leave the emergency freqs to those who need to be on
them. Have a great weekend! Jon.

On 5 Mar 2005 18:29:57 -0800, (Jim) wrote:

My ultimate scanner would let me:
1. Allow to transmit on the frequency I am monitoring.

You can buy a transmitter that does basically DC to daylight.

The question is can you afford it? Not likely.
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In article ,
says...
My ultimate scanner would let me:
1. Allow to transmit on the frequency I am monitoring.

(Please add your wish)

I don=3Ft share your wish for transmit capability, but here goes:

- The ability to set up more than one trunk system, and switch
easily between one or the other -- or better yet, to set up
one =3Fmemory=3F with one trunk system and another =3Fmemory=3F with
another trunk system, etc. and just scan across them like
they were any other preset. (I ask for this because there
are several trunked systems here in Orange County, CA. One
is at Disneyland, another is the Orange County Fire Authority,
and yet another is the county law enforcement system (city
and county agencies). There are others, but those are the
major ones. It sucks to have to program up one scanner for
each trunked system.)

- Mobile and desktop =3Fdocking stations=3F to permit taking a
system from the house and plugging it right into the mobile.
They make docking stations (or =3Fport replicators=3F) for
notebooks, why not for radios?

Given time, I suspect I could come up with a bunch, but those are the
first ones that come to mind.

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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email:

Not sure what you mean by one trunking system per scanner. More than half
of my 245 is devoted to trunking systems. I regularly scan multiple
trunking and non-trunking channels. Am I missing your point here?

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Dave S

"Steve Silverwood" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...
My ultimate scanner would let me:
1. Allow to transmit on the frequency I am monitoring.

(Please add your wish)

I don=3Ft share your wish for transmit capability, but here goes:

- The ability to set up more than one trunk system, and switch
easily between one or the other -- or better yet, to set up
one =3Fmemory=3F with one trunk system and another =3Fmemory=3F with
another trunk system, etc. and just scan across them like
they were any other preset. (I ask for this because there
are several trunked systems here in Orange County, CA. One
is at Disneyland, another is the Orange County Fire Authority,
and yet another is the county law enforcement system (city
and county agencies). There are others, but those are the
major ones. It sucks to have to program up one scanner for
each trunked system.)

- Mobile and desktop =3Fdocking stations=3F to permit taking a
system from the house and plugging it right into the mobile.
They make docking stations (or =3Fport replicators=3F) for
notebooks, why not for radios?

Given time, I suspect I could come up with a bunch, but those are the
first ones that come to mind.

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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email:

How about 100 banks of 10 channels instead of the other way around (10 banks
of 100 channels each)?

Then you could more easily group items of interest together - for example,
you could have once bank programmed for west county law enforcement, fire
and ABC medics. Another bank could contain freqs for East county law
enforcement, XYZ medic and the same fire company as before. That way, if
you heard of a huge fire out on the west end you could scan the appropriate
bank and be sure you were hearing all the pertinent comms but none of the
traffic stops over on the east side. Having fewer channel per bank would
mean reduced scanning time and fewer channels to lockout to avoid extraneous
stuff. With computers downloading frequencies into radios organizing such
an arrangement would be a trivial task and changes would be quite simple.

that's my .02 worth!

Al


"Steve Silverwood" wrote in message
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In article ,
says...
My ultimate scanner would let me:
1. Allow to transmit on the frequency I am monitoring.

(Please add your wish)

I don=3Ft share your wish for transmit capability, but here goes:

- The ability to set up more than one trunk system, and switch
easily between one or the other -- or better yet, to set up
one =3Fmemory=3F with one trunk system and another =3Fmemory=3F with
another trunk system, etc. and just scan across them like
they were any other preset. (I ask for this because there
are several trunked systems here in Orange County, CA. One
is at Disneyland, another is the Orange County Fire Authority,
and yet another is the county law enforcement system (city
and county agencies). There are others, but those are the
major ones. It sucks to have to program up one scanner for
each trunked system.)

- Mobile and desktop =3Fdocking stations=3F to permit taking a
system from the house and plugging it right into the mobile.
They make docking stations (or =3Fport replicators=3F) for
notebooks, why not for radios?

Given time, I suspect I could come up with a bunch, but those are the
first ones that come to mind.

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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email:

In article ,
says...
Not sure what you mean by one trunking system per scanner. More than half
of my 245 is devoted to trunking systems. I regularly scan multiple
trunking and non-trunking channels. Am I missing your point here?

It=3Fs been a while since I had a trunking scanner, but the thing I ran
into was that I could either listen to the trunked system, or the
regular channels, and that I could only set up one trunked system at a
time. To go to a different trunked system, I had to dump the existing
one. That was VERY annoying.

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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email:

Oh, OK

Certainly, the 245 and more recent scanners do not have that limitation.

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Dave S

"Steve Silverwood" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...
Not sure what you mean by one trunking system per scanner. More than
half
of my 245 is devoted to trunking systems. I regularly scan multiple
trunking and non-trunking channels. Am I missing your point here?

It=3Fs been a while since I had a trunking scanner, but the thing I ran
into was that I could either listen to the trunked system, or the
regular channels, and that I could only set up one trunked system at a
time. To go to a different trunked system, I had to dump the existing
one. That was VERY annoying.

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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email:

In article ,
says...
Oh, OK

Certainly, the 245 and more recent scanners do not have that limitation.

Thanks, I'll check them out when budget permits.

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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email: