Decided to get a hand held for my present this year (mostly for fire traffic use. Like others here I am a vollie.) and after much research (especially on WASUG, thanks guys.) settled on the Uniden UBC93XLT. Very nice, compact unit.
Out here at Bullsbrook I fully expected not to get much on the units own aerial but was not epecting the deathly silence I got. Three days of manual reading and fiddling, nothing. Was I doing something wrong, or was I just too far from anything?
Today one more fiddle and guess what the unit crackled into life with the main channel heard being Perth approach at the airport nice and clear, (123.600, big thanks to whoever put those airport and FESA lists up!)
So now for the big learning curve to sus out all of these buttons and what they do! At least I now know the unit is ok and so am I. I will be purcasing a bigger and better aerial to attach to the house though, any suggestions appreciated.
