[MilCom] New Scanner

[Larry Van Horn]

I own one. It is ok on the milair side of things. Three things I don't like.

The default spacing is 50 kHz for frequency entry (which means you have to 
change it via menu each time you enter a .x25 or .x75 kHz freq.

Manual programming can be a bit of a chore (keystroke wise). You will 
definitely want to use a software approach to programming this scanner.

IMHO -- There is just not enough memory slots to do a proper spectrum survey 
if you are working your area milair spectrum for the "first time." You have 
over 6200 possible frequencies in use in your area. And that is just in the 
225-400 MHz portion of the spectrum. That is before we add in the 
138-144/148-150.8 MHz aero freqs and, of course, the active civilian air 
freqs that may have milair activity from time-to-time .But it does work 
great as a second scanner in the shack loaded with known active stuff, but 
getting to that point with this as your only milair rig can be a chore.

Rest of the values and specs pretty much in line with what was available in 
this vintage of scanners. A much better scanner than Uniden's first runs at 
triple conversion scanners - the 2500/8500 and 3000/9000 scanners. Avoid 
that junk like the black plague. The milair band in those models are loaded 
with tons of images (especially from the cellphone bands).

73 de LVH

Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
Teak Publishing, Brasstown, NC
Assistant/Technical Editor Monitoring Times
MT First Look/Help Desk/Milcom Columnist
Blog Address: http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/
Personal Radio Blog: http://monitor-post.blogspot.com/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Denney" <den8yzc at woh.rr.com>
To: <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:16 PM
Subject: [MilCom] New Scanner


>I am in need of a new scanner.  Does anybody have any experience with a 
>Uniden BC 796D for MilAir work?  Thanks, John.
>
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