[FoxHunt] Suggestions for a Scanner for RDF?

[Steven Donnell]

Hi, You should take a look at the scanners offered by Icom, Alinco,
Vertex, and AOR. My favorites are my AOR AR8000 handheld, and IC-R100 for
mobile. The AR8K has a fully backlit keypad, large bargraph smeter, and
runs on 4x AA batteries. You might also add, that right next to the CHs
w/ 121.5 and 243, you set CHs for 486.0(1215 x 4) and 850.5(121.5 x 7).
Along w/ one for 406.025; new gen EPIRBs/ELTs. For the antenna, I
continue to be amazed by the Arrow 3 el yagi; Being able to easily swap
between horizontal and vertical puts the standard LPer to SHAME.. This
past summer we had great success in using the Arrow w/ the LPer reciever
to DF an EPIRB that turned out to be onboard a US Coast Guard Cutter. If
interested, you can read thedetails of this in our regular column in the
Sept issue of Scanning USA magazine.

Steve  DE  WA1YKL
Abenaki 102

jay@integraonline.com wrote:

> I was speaking to one of our CAP friends and he said he had $500
> ready to spend on an L-PER <sigh>  I said PLEASE wait.  Why not
> get a scanner (No crystals) and a attenuator and use some of those
> Measuring tape yagis.  He said "Ok!  What scanner?"  GULP!!!
> I'm an total idiot on what is around.  What we would like is fairly
> simple.  It should have a smeter to view the signal strength and be
> able to hear 121.5 (Civilian Air) and 243 (Military Air)   Can anyone
> suggest some portable scanners that cover those two ranges that
> actualy work?