[Scan-DC] re: 895 and milair

[Jeff]

Mike thanks for your thoughts. I would not say I am having a lot of problems
with intermod, Just more than I am used to. I t used to be that every few
months I might get a little intermod on one freq. The thing is now with my
search project I worked my way down to some very weak, distant signals and
in the process have found 4-5 freqs that are giving me a fit. Most are on
the BC780. 

I remember seeing you posts about having the problems with the 895 and
Spectrum Explorer. I wished you could have worked through it. Even with
another radio. I have tried some of the software on the Strong Signals site
and found nothing that IMHO compares to SC. To bad you did not have another
radio or 2 to try it out on. I would have liked to have seen a review of it.

I may end up getting an 895 at some point. Its lack of 138-144 is a factor
for me and when reading Rich Wells review of it, it is plain to see that he
recommends the 780 over the 895 when comparing the 2 reviews. That also has
me a little skittish as the BC780 is he one I am having the worst intermod
problem with. 

For me SC does the trick as it supports so many radios, has plenty of
features that I love. I never have been much on having a different software
package for different radios. I like having one that does it all. I don't
consider a radio unless SC supports it. If I want to change a list of freqs
over from one radio to another it is a matter of 2 mouse clicks. Can't get
much simpler than that. SCANCAT GOLD is supposed to be decent I guess but a
couple of folks that I know of the used to use that tried SC and switched
and never looked back. I guess it was such a resource hog they could not
multitask. Heck I run 5 radios simultaneously on an old PII 400 machine with
56 megs "o" ram. Not much resource hogging there.

Take it easy,
Jeff 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:scan-dc-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Agner
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 19:00
> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Scan-DC] re: 895 and milair
> 
>    Hi Jeff and list - I haven't had much trouble with the 895 and intermod
> problems, particularly when I let it go in the UHF milair range; however,
> I
> tried Spectrum Commander and it was utterly worthless trying to interface
> it with the 895.  I went round and round trying to get it to commuicate,
> and it does - barely.  It may have something to do with the firmware
> version, but to be honest, I'm not at all sure.
> 
>    I use Radiomax almost exclusively when working in the UHF milair range;
> one of the best packages for this kind of app on the 895 IMHO.
> 
>    73s  Mike
> 
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