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>Can anyone give me the pros or cons of buying Unidens Sportcat handheld
>model 150 with the 800 megahertz? Being new to this and looking to do
>just local neighborhood scanning I have narrowed my choice down to this
>scanner, also maintaining a 150 dollar price range. Any input will be
>greatly appreciated.
It's the best one I've found for my needs anyway.  
Cons: 1) Only a few bands (12) to listen too.
      2) You can't set a freq range to scan. It only scans bands. 
      3) 800Mhz can't be opened up fully.
      4) Only 100 channels
Pros:  1) It has the main bands that I listen to 99% of the time.
       2) So what? If I need to find a freq I can look in Police Call
          or just scan the whole band. You find more stuff that way.
       3) However all the cellular images show up at 894 and above so
          they are still there. The scanner is legal just in case the
          coppers want to examine it. "Is it *MY* fault the silly thing
          picks up images"?  
       4) How many do you *NEED*? 
          I'm happy with 25 Police, 5 Fire, 6 Medical and a couple
          Taco Bell and Mickey D's drive-throughs. Maybe 1 or 2 ham
          repeaters so I can listen to myself when I'm on the air
          and monitor the link freqs so I can see where my signal
          is being transfered to and from.
Summary......
It's a good simple scanner and fills all my needs. It also seems to pick up
more (within it's freq ranges) than the Radio Scrap scanners I've tried.
KG9EV
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