WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

Hi all
Just wanted to see what brands you use.
I have in use

Motorola
GP329 x 2
MCS2000 ANT: Comet Discone Base DS-3000 Covers 75MHz~3GHz,

TAIT
orca 5020 It now dead
T2020 II x 1 ANT: RFI 6Db GIP

GME
TX6000 x 1
TX3400 x 1 ANT: GME 12Db
TX3600 x 1 ANT: GME 12Db

Icom
IC 400PRO x 2 ANT: Comet Discone Base DS-3000 Covers 75MHz~3GHz,
/ RFI 6Db GIP
ICF-R10 x 1 ANT: Comet Discone Base DS-3000 Covers 75MHz~3GHz,
ICF-F43GS x 1

AOR
AR8200 mrk 3 ANT: Comet Discone Base DS-3000 Covers 75MHz~3GHz,

Uniden
UBC780 XLT x 2 ANT: Comet Discone Base DS-3000 Covers 75MHz~3GHz,

I live in the Glen Forrest,
so some units are back ups or (set up for portable use )

hope to hear from any one about what you use.

Glen wrote:Hi all
Just wanted to see what brands you use.
I have in use

Wow. Not bad Glen

For listening I've got a Uniden 3000XLT scanner, a Yaesu VX-5R amateur handheld, a Yaesu FT-8900, a Philips PRM8041 and a Philips FM91. Plus lots of other miscellaneous bits and pieces

Glen and VK you guys way out source me - but i am the proud new owner of a NEW Uniden UBC92XLT 200 channel scanner, and it is proving a success...

Proud owner of a Uniden UBCD996T APCO 25 Digital Scanner connected to 2 diamond discone witch is 20 metres up.Both are connected together using sepature coax's and then going to a 20db pre amp before the scanner.

In the car the good old Uniden 760 XLT and the handheld is a Uniden 80 Channel 8 Band, dont know the model.

Cheers
Take Care

I'm using:

1x Radio Shack Pro-28 (30ch)
1x Uniden Bearcat 57XLT (20ch)
1x Uniden Bearcat 120XLT (100ch)
2x Icom IC 400Pro's (128ch)

I use the Pro-28 & UBC57xlt together at work at my desk. The RadioShack has better audio and RX than the uniden and i keep the uniden on Fire/Police and the radioshack on Ambo's. The radioshack has an external aerial. The 57xlt doesn't have BNC connection but an SMA or some crap...

I use the UBC120xlt at home, mostly with an earpiece and a magnetic base with a steel whip on the window shelf in the bedroom and i use it mostly while trying to go to sleep. It seems to work well as i don't wake the missus up who's next to me and i often get tired trying to follow the 100channels i've got programmed in there. Although i laughed a bit last night at the taxi dispatcher having a verbal with a driver over the air... I'm 1klm or so from the interstate train line which goes past late at night sometimes so i might have to tune in some rail freqs.

I use the Icom's in the cars. One in my work car and one in my 4wd. I did have a uniden 013 remote head but it was just too deaf and and TX signals while on the CB band were too weak. The icom blows it away with both TX and particularly RX. The although there's no search function the Icom is one of the better mobile 'receivers' i've owned. I have all the software so i can edit it's RX freqs on the laptop then download to the Icom.

I have been thinking about getting a UBCT-8 for use in the kitchen/office with an external aerial but i think it's overpriced and i'd rather something more like the 780xlt. I might just wait another 12-24 months and see what turns up in the digital market before i commit to another scanner.

glen why do u have a tait 2020 just out of interest!

Proud owner of a Bazooka LOL

ah sorry, wrong weapon....

Hope you have a valid license for that one

Do you have to have a licence.....?

Yaesu VR-500, 2 x Tait 2020, Yaesu FT-90, and an old Uniden 16 channel scanner which I have converted to WX Satellite but am too lazy to make a turnstile antenna for it.

I have a UNIDEN SC230 2500channel and close-call fuction (US brand)It's a racing car scanner preprogramed with indy car and nascar frequencys.I know the nascar one's are no good here but have replaced them with V8 Supercar frequencys instead.Only frequency I can't get is the firies.DOH!!

doogues71 wrote:Only frequency I can't get is the firies

Tried scanning the repeater link freqs of 451.075 and 455.425Mhz? They're only 1W but you might have some luck

thanks Gavin.Glen gave me an VERY OLD Uniden UBC175xl 16 channel desktop scanner which picks up the firies no worries but would love to pick them up on my SC230.So any frequencys would be worth a shot.Those ones you gave me i'm tryying now.But nothing as yet.Will let you know if I hear anything.

Hi All

Is there eny one using an Maldol Log Periodic Antenna
LP-1300 Rx 100MHz~1.3GHz 6~10dBi, Tx 2m/70cm/33cm/23cm.
out there

Regards Glen