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Which Is The Best?
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:46:52 -0700, George said
in rec.radio.scanner: 2. Selectable tuning steps instead of the default tuning step ranges which may be off a few KC's from where you want to listen. If the frequency is "a few KCs off", someone should notify the licensee, because they're operating illegally. If it's 5 KHz off, you're probably trying to receive the wrong frequency. A lot of PS frequencies found on the internet were found by people who had their scanners on the wrong frequency, and when you try to match that frequency with a better scanner, you think that the transmitter is off frequency. No, it's the knowledge of the person reporting the frequency that was off. Most technicians know how to keep the transmitters on frequency - it's what they were hired for. 5. Continuos frequency coverage! This is a very handy option. Even though the Uniden BC796D has a few gaps, the range is sufficient for my needs. The Icom IC-R20 covers everything from 100KHZ - 3Ghz, except 800Mhz cellular. It covers 1.8 GHz cellular? Or did you just forget to mention that? (Not that receiving it would do any good - there are NO analog services in the "PCS" band.) 7. Good sensitivity, rejection to intermod Not in any receiver ever made, if the intermod is external to the scanner. If it's on the frequency you're receiving, you'll receive it. GRE, Uniden or a Motorola G-strip (which was probably the tightest receiver ever made - the thing had cavities for front end filters). You may mean a receiver that doesn't suffer much from front end overload. Typical of Uniden, NOT typical of GRE. (You're almost assured of overloading the front end of a GRE scanner if you put on an external antenna, unless you don't live anywhere near any transmitter.) adjacent signal rejection Also not with almost any scanner ever made. Most scanners have a fixed IF bandwidth. It's difficult to be wide enough to not distort on an 11 KHz channel and still not pick up adjacent channel interference with 5 KHz channel spacing. |