On Apr 13, 12:57 am, Larry Dighera wrote:
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:57:27 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Sarangan

wrote:
I did a comparison of
three different scanners (Uniden, Radioshack and ICOM) by recording
clips from each unit using the same outdoor antenna.

I was surprised by how much the ICOM-A6 outperformed the other models,

I would guess the price of the Icom was significantly in excess of the
other two...


Yes it is more expensive. But prior discussions on this newsgroup lead
me to believe that transceivers are more expensive mainly because they
have transmit capability, but for listening just about any scanner
would do. My goal was to find out if that was really true.


See if a dealer will let you record the Vertex VXA-220 Pro VI:http://www.vertexstandard.com/indexV...oducts&ProdCat...
It has 8.33 kHz synthesizer steps for the new narrow-band channel
plan. Do the others?