[Scan-DC] Re: scanners and milair

[Jeffery R. Smith]

Makes sense Mike,

I got my Pro-26 right before it was to be sent back to the manufacturer
because of the new Cell Ruling. It was actually sitting on the RS Managers
desk for them to get it ready to return and was the last one they had.
Anyway, I have heard cell images on this scanner in the MILAIR range. I did
not pay much attention to the freqs but I remember it well because I could
have sworn I knew who the lady was I heard once. It has not done it a lot
but it has indeed done it. 

My hope is that now that they are coming out with the digital scanners and
the cost is going up, they might rethink things a little.  



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of ka3jjz at netscape.com
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 5:13 PM
To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Scan-DC] Re: scanners and milair

  Today, Al wrote:
====================
Why is it Radio Shack,amoung others,refuses to include mil-air band on 
most of its scanners? Does it cost alot to have it?
====================
  Jeff touched on the reason (has to do with the cell restrictions); let me
add a little fuel for speculation here.
  What I've heard was strictly second hand, but as I understand it, GRE's
basic circuit design evidently has a flaw that would allow cell band
reception in parts of the milair band (even though the mode would be all
wrong, along with the step, ect.).  They've never addressed this weakness,
and in order to get FCC approval for their scanners, they took a short cut
and deleted this coverage.
  It may well be that it would cost so much to do the redesign to filter out
the 'cell spurs' for lack of a better term, that simply deleting the
coverage was as much a financial decision as a technical one.  But I guess
we'll never know for sure.

73s  Mike

links editor,Capitol Hill Monitors
editor, Strong Signals software


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