NU040889@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Todd M. Bezenek) (10/09/88)
In response to my request for advice in buying a scanner, I received some very interesting information from Markus Mueller. His letter follows: >I would recommend you to buy either an AOR AR-2002 (covers 25 - 550 and >800 - 1300 MHz in AM, FM and FM-wide) or to wait a few more month and then >buy an AOR AR-3000 (100kHz - 2000MHz AM/FM/FM-wide/SSB). These scanners >are not cheap (around $ 700 in Switzerland for the 2002; no price yet for >3000), but they are both *very* sensitive and resistent against large >signals on nearby bands. > >If you cannot get this make within US, or if you do need to have the full >specified frequency range including Cellular (Warning! ECPA!), write or >call > > Poly-Elektronik > CH-8303 Bassersdorf > Switzerland > Phone from US: 011 411 836 82 37 > >for a quote. > > Markus Mueller > Institut fuer Informatik > Swiss Federal Institute of Technology > Zurich > Switzerland > >~ UUCP/Usenet : {known world}!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!muellerma >~ CSNET : muellerma%ifi.ethz.ch@relay.cs.net >~ ARPA : muellerma%ifi.ethz.ch@csnet-relay.arpa > >Disclaimer: All of above represents my personal point of view and not that one >of my employer. Further correspondence with Markus yielded this: > I also called Poly >Electronic this afternoon, and yes they do deliver to US. > >However I forgot to mention a few more details about AR-2002: >a) It has very few birdies; much less than an ordinary scanner. However one > of the few bad birdies ist at 144.980 MHz, therefore in the middle of the > 2 m ham bands. >b) Scanning and searching is slow with only 5 channels / sec. However > the search step can be varied between 5, 12.5 and 25 kHz so the > search gets quite fast on UHF. >c) It has a serial port for computer control; however it is not RS232 > and a level converter (available as an option) is required for true > RS232 operation. Various additional signals like signal strength and > squelch are also available on the computer socket at the back. >d) It has a LED-bar type S-Meter. > > Markus Mueller -Todd -- Todd Michael Bezenek, KO0N Bitnet: nebezene@ndsuvax NU040889@ndsuvm1 UUCP: nebezene@plains.nodak.edu #! rnews 544 Relay-Version: Version 1.7 PSU-NETNEWS 5/20/88; site PSUVM.BITNET Posting-Version: Ver