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It's a battery-eating piece of junk. The RCVR totally misses the "Video"
portion of the band by stopping at 2.450Gigs.The overall performance is rather poor. The control setup is hard to work with. You would be MUCH better off with a Casio 3" portable AND a real RCVR than the Icom R-3. I speak from experiance.....I have one....Eddie "Alan Smithee" wrote in message ... I'd be interested in hearing any comments from y'all about this unit - good or bad. I'm thinking of purchasing. And yes, the video is one of the key reasons. Thanks in advance. Alan Smithee -- |
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I bought one of the R3s recently and sent it back that same day. It picked
up ZERO broadcast TV stations from my house, and with my $75 Sony Watchman FDL-PT22 handheld TV I can get five stations. IMHO, the R3 is overpriced and it underperforms. |
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Well, I guess I asked for it! Thanks for this. The Casio option (as
well as the Sont Watchman are obviously good options. Thanks again. Alan In article , Corbin Ray wrote: I bought one of the R3s recently and sent it back that same day. It picked up ZERO broadcast TV stations from my house, and with my $75 Sony Watchman FDL-PT22 handheld TV I can get five stations. IMHO, the R3 is overpriced and it underperforms. |
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MHO, the R3 is overpriced and it underperforms.
agreed. although I still kind of like it. and as far as I know, it's the only FCC-approved "video scanner" in the U.S., so far. although technically, it is NOT a "video scanner" even though it was marketed as one. It WON'T scan when in any video mode with the tv portion of the screen on. I found out the hard way that unlike am-tv, you can't simply scan for the audio of FM-TV modulated signals. You have to have the tv portion of the screen on (not the frequency display on the big screen, but the actual tv portion where you see either snow or a signal), and when in that mode, it will NOT scan. You HAVE to tune it MANUALLY. If you do get a signal, you might have to use the positice mode/negative mode switch to get a watchable picture. To flip between these modes, just push the mode button when in fm-tv mode. Then you might also have to adjust the sound carrier if there's any sound on the video signal. The small display wil read "car" when you enter the sound carrier mode, where you can then adjust it until you hear sound, if there's any sound present on the signal you're watching. |
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It's a battery-eating piece of junk
I disagree. The batteries on all pocket tv's I ever had always ran down that quick. If you're comparing it to an audio-only scanner, then yes, it eats batteries, but if you're comparing it to a pocket tv, it's comparable and not a battery eating piece of junk. The RCVR totally misses the "Video" portion of the band by stopping at 2.450Gigs that is true as far as I know since I read that bby a lot of people. So I was wondering, exactly what are the frequencies of the video portion of the band (including the frequencies that the R3 doesn't cover)??? I'm not familiar with the allocations. I only have a general allocation chart here. The overall performance is rather poor agreed. for the 2.4 GHZ range of the R3 The control setup is hard to work with. It was real hard for me to learn, but once I learned it, it's pretty easy, although I still have to occasionally look up things in the manual that I forget because I don't use those functions much. |
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2.45 to 2.55Ghz are VERY popular with airborne and ENG people...this RX
misses that VERY important part of the band....Eddie "Waterperson77" wrote in message ... It's a battery-eating piece of junk I disagree. The batteries on all pocket tv's I ever had always ran down that quick. If you're comparing it to an audio-only scanner, then yes, it eats batteries, but if you're comparing it to a pocket tv, it's comparable and not a battery eating piece of junk. The RCVR totally misses the "Video" portion of the band by stopping at 2.450Gigs that is true as far as I know since I read that bby a lot of people. So I was wondering, exactly what are the frequencies of the video portion of the band (including the frequencies that the R3 doesn't cover)??? I'm not familiar with the allocations. I only have a general allocation chart here. The overall performance is rather poor agreed. for the 2.4 GHZ range of the R3 The control setup is hard to work with. It was real hard for me to learn, but once I learned it, it's pretty easy, although I still have to occasionally look up things in the manual that I forget because I don't use those functions much. |
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2.45 gHz is very popular with people who like to eat TV dinners.
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 02:29:38 GMT, "Eddie Haskel" wrote: 2.45 to 2.55Ghz are VERY popular with airborne and ENG people...this RX misses that VERY important part of the band....Eddie "Waterperson77" wrote in message ... It's a battery-eating piece of junk I disagree. The batteries on all pocket tv's I ever had always ran down that quick. If you're comparing it to an audio-only scanner, then yes, it eats batteries, but if you're comparing it to a pocket tv, it's comparable and not a battery eating piece of junk. The RCVR totally misses the "Video" portion of the band by stopping at 2.450Gigs that is true as far as I know since I read that bby a lot of people. So I was wondering, exactly what are the frequencies of the video portion of the band (including the frequencies that the R3 doesn't cover)??? I'm not familiar with the allocations. I only have a general allocation chart here. The overall performance is rather poor agreed. for the 2.4 GHZ range of the R3 The control setup is hard to work with. It was real hard for me to learn, but once I learned it, it's pretty easy, although I still have to occasionally look up things in the manual that I forget because I don't use those functions much. |
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David wrote in
: 2.45 gHz is very popular with people who like to eat TV dinners. On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 02:29:38 GMT, "Eddie Haskel" wrote: 2.45 to 2.55Ghz are VERY popular with airborne and ENG people...this RX misses that VERY important part of the band....Eddie This is also where WiFi signals live. |
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2.45 gHz is very popular with people who like to eat TV dinners.
does that mean I can see what they're eating on my R3? Of course, everyone knows ehat the R3 eats. |
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