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Subject: Radio Scanners
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banbury 18.07.15 - 09:03pm
Been looking at some wideband multimode radio scanners. Today there are only three to choose from in the Uk. AOR 8200, ICOM R20 and an Alinco. I've already ruled the latter out cos Alinco no longer manufacture their gear and I Don't like who does so its between the Icom and Aor. I've heard rumours ssb doesn't function above 470mhz on the Icom but not sure if that's true? * +

banbury 18.07.15 - 09:09pm
there aren't many services that use ssb above 470mhz but there are some. unless that flaw only effects older versions of the R20? I downloaded the user manual but there is no mention that any modes cannot be used on certain bands. Aor owners are reporting only 4 hours battery life with the 8200 which has kind of steared me towards the Icom but it would be nice to hear someone elses opinion * +

quietbry 19.07.15 - 07:32am
I prefer white chocolate magnums and they're on offer in morrisons at the moment. Lollypop. * +

asurreym 19.07.15 - 11:46am
have you looked on the maplin website they have a wide range on there * +

banbury 20.07.15 - 08:42pm
maplins offer a wide range of standard scanners but only one that offers SSB which is the AOR I've already mentioned, but White magnums are the best! * +

newt182 20.07.15 - 09:31pm
I agree about the white magnums. * +

banbury 22.07.15 - 12:10am
I bought a box of them and ate them all at once one day, even though they don't have ssb. * +

veronee 19.08.15 - 11:03pm
for fun try this, one EZCAP Usb 2.0 dvbt-t stick dongle, your wanting the one that says realtek rtl2832, using an SDR program on windows vista-7-8-10 and the cruddy antenna given you can aquire from 28mhz all the way upto 2.2ghz long-short - uhf and on. with better diapole or purpose built antenna, you can gain sats like imarsat and NOAA the later being a downlink weather sat, you can downlink live images. * +

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