What would be the ideal hand held scanner for use in Australia and Overseas. Around 3/4 hundred dollars preferable.
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What do you want to receive? Local stuff or overseas (i.e. shortwave)?bdstaines wrote:What would be the ideal hand held scanner for use in Australia and Overseas. Around 3/4 hundred dollars preferable.
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Might be worth keeping in mind that scanners are illegal in many countries, particularly the UK.
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The 3000xlt was (and still is) a very versatile hand-held. The 25-550mhz coverage gets you the military UHF air band which is probably the main attraction for people buying these sorts of radios. You also get selectable 5/12.5/25khz spacing which a lot of Uniden and Realistic handhelds don't have.
One thing to be mindful of: these radios had on-board Ni-cads as a rechargeable battery pack and on some 3000s that come up on eBay the Ni-cads no longer hold any charge. Some eBay vendors are honest enough to admit the Ni-cads are 'dead', but it's worth asking.
Try searching the words 'uniden' '3000xlt' and 'review' and you'll probably find some good reviews of the set, particularly from the USA.
One thing to be mindful of: these radios had on-board Ni-cads as a rechargeable battery pack and on some 3000s that come up on eBay the Ni-cads no longer hold any charge. Some eBay vendors are honest enough to admit the Ni-cads are 'dead', but it's worth asking.
Try searching the words 'uniden' '3000xlt' and 'review' and you'll probably find some good reviews of the set, particularly from the USA.
Would anyone recommend this scanner?
- http://cgi.ebay.com.au/RADIOSHACK-PRO97 ... dZViewItem
- http://cgi.ebay.com.au/BRAND-NEW-Radio- ... dZViewItem
- radio shack scanner hand held 400 channel pro 64
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- http://cgi.ebay.com.au/RADIOSHACK-PRO97 ... dZViewItem
- http://cgi.ebay.com.au/BRAND-NEW-Radio- ... dZViewItem
- radio shack scanner hand held 400 channel pro 64
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Personally, I would prefer a 3000xlt to any Realistic/Radio Shack hand-held.
I'm not bagging the Realistic product (I'm a proud PRO-2004 owner of 15 years' standing) but I'm pretty sure there was never a Realistic hand-held produced that had continuous 25-550 mhz coverage and 5/12.5/25khz frequency steps.
I'm not bagging the Realistic product (I'm a proud PRO-2004 owner of 15 years' standing) but I'm pretty sure there was never a Realistic hand-held produced that had continuous 25-550 mhz coverage and 5/12.5/25khz frequency steps.
George, i would recommend that you make sure it can pick up the 6IP channel i gave you a while back, make sure it can pick it up and some other channels, try before you buy, any scanner with more than 10 channels and has more than 3 decimal places like your scanner would be ideal. hope that helps JG103