[MilCom] Milcom/Milair Maxium Channels for Effectiveness?

[Mike Riffle]

The most I scan with one scanner is 1400 channels with my Optoscan equipped
Pro-2006 which is controlled by the Probe software. IMHO scanning this many
channels is not a good idea because it takes to long to cycle through all
the frequencies. With the Probe software I can set the scan rate of the
Pro-2006 at 100 channels/sec, so it takes 14 seconds to cycle through all
the frequencies. With the brevity of most milcoms it is better to have a
cycle rate in the 5-10 second range. For this reason I use the Pro-2006
only as an alert monitor for those less common frequencies (things like
cross country air-air, AWAC/JSTAR/TACAMO activity, and distant MOAs to
catch any band openings). I leave the daily monitoring of my most common
frequencies to my other scanners.

Mike Riffle
Cataula, GA


On 13-Dec-06 19:31, Ken wrote:
> Wondering what opinions there are regarding how many milair/milcom 
> frequencies can you effectively scanner/monitor in one scanner.
> 
> I know that some scanners offer 500, 1000, and now 4000+ channels 
> (coventional frequencies) capabilities BUT how many milcom related 
> channels can you effectively scan?
> 
> I would guess that not more than 400 to 500 frequencies, with the mix 
> 80% being rarely used & 20% being used a lot.  I would also assume that 
> on some of the rare frequencies it might be better to program these in 
> the scanner at maybe 2 or even 3 different positions?
> 
> I don't think 2000-4000 frequencies being scanned would work!!!
> 
> What have others found in their daily usage?