WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

Greetings all, newbie here

I currently have the UH013 in the car but want a handheld scanner. I know the Radio Shack Pro-83 is a US scanner but it appears the only frequency difference is it doesn't cover 55-88.

What uses these's freq's?

Cheers
marto

There is activity in the 78mhz area, most notably the fire services: metropolitan Fire and Rescue Service as well as bush fire fighters.

Cheers for that, certainly helps in my choice

It's also worth checking that the radio you're thinking of buyng has a 12.5khz frequency step in the 68-88mhz band. Older sets had a 5khz step which was fine when frequencies were allocated with 15khz spacing, but these days they're on a 12.5khz spacing. The latest Uniden handhelds (72xlt and 92xlt) do have the 12.5khz step.