Scanner frequency list

Special equipment on the market. There are a large number of scanners. The fact that they are the same of what you have seen and heard. And if you are new to radio monitoring, you can slightly numb the number of scanners available for purchase.

How to decide, which scanner to buy? Alternatively, more importantly, how to avoid buying a scanner that does not suit you, especially if you have limited funds?

Many advanced amateurs involved in monitoring, have several scanners. Maybe they bought the scanner in the search for a scanner who would meet all their needs.

With this article, I want to help newcomers avoid similar mistakes.

Giving too much importance to the number of channels.

You are flipping through the catalog or magazine and see a scanner with 1000 channels. "What kind of scanner" - you think. Knowledgeable people will tell you that to enter into search frequencies 1000 the memory will take a long time. And then you will need a lot of time to program them. And after you program them, you might want to make a list of frequencies and channel numbers corresponding to them to find them again. Very rarely, or who need who can use all the 1000 channels of the scanner. So why spend money if you do not need so many channels?

Banks of memory.

"Banks" represent an opportunity to share the scanner frequency channels in the group more accessible to search. For example, a scanner with 200 cells can divide them into 10 banks of 20 cells each. This allows you to use a bank for, say, police, bank 2 for the fire service and ambulance, etc. However, other scanners - which offers 400 cells (type AR-3000), has only 4 banks! This means that the user is severely restricted in securing channels and banks for special monitoring. As experience shows, the more banks the better.

Buying a scanner with a limited frequency range.

Many scanners have a "hole" in their frequency ranges. For example, you can buy a scanner, which covers the frequency range as follows: 30-50, 108-174, 380-512 and 806-956 MHz (excluding some frequency). Obviously, this scanner many "holes" in many of these "holes" can be an interesting station, or "talk." As soon as you grow in his obsession with monitoring, you will learn about the great opportunities that may be available when you scan, if your scanner can receive as much as possible frequencies.