[MilCom] New Scanner

[Duane Mantick]

As a very happy 2006 owner who happens to live within
spittin' distance (well, OK - maybe it's a mile away
so you gotta spit WITH the wind :-)  )  of a major
cell tower (which looks to me like it may carry some
other services, too)  I can testify that the 2006 has
had VERY little problems with getting hit with
intermods and other crud from it.  The only one that I
can recall was actually down in the 108-136 MHz area,
and even then I wasn't 100% sure of the source - it
just sounded a lot like the sort of idle chatter one
might hear on a cellphone vs. something aviation
related.

That scanner was one of the things that Radio Shack
got right (choice of manufacturer, I suppose one
should say) with my only gripe being how hot the
internal power supply ran - I did what I think a lot
of other folks did, which was to get an external 12
volt supply - figuring that it was cheaper to replace
if THAT burned up than dealing with repairs to the
2006's internal supply....not to mention downtime
issues.  Well, yeah, I suppose the lack of a tuning
knob/VFO is a little annoying but considering the
price vs. features I'll not complain too much about
that.

Duane
WB9OMC

--- Larry Van Horn <n5fpw at brmemc.net> wrote:

> > BTW as I understand Uniden specifically left those
> radios wide open as far 
> > as intermod goes to allow for image reception as a
> way to get around the 
> > cellular ban.
> 
> Absolutely not true my friend. It was an engineering
> issue that they quote 
> "tried to fix in the 3000/9000 scanners after they
> pulled the 2500/8500 
> scanner following the horrible reviews." They still
> didn't fix the issues in 
> the 3000/9000 models even thought they said they
> did. A great comparable set 
> of triple conversion scanners of that era were the
> RS (GRE) Pro-2004/5/6 
> desk/mobiles and Pro-43 HH which didn't need traps
> to block the cell images 
> from 800 MHz. I still own all four, they are still
> working fine and doing 
> the job.
> 
> Sorry DH, I won't own  a 2500/8500/3000/9000 today
> even if you gave to me. 
> IMHO a total waste of energy to power compared to
> other triple conversions 
> of that day.
> 
> 73 de LVH
> 
> 
>
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