Frank,
FC>Those oldies but goodies.....
FC>I have a Regency WhamO-10 that's still monitoring some of the local 2m
FC>/440 repeaters here in Reno.... the lo-band sensitivity is a tad better
FC>than my 2006's, methinks. What are you monitoring with the Optiscan?
        Yeah, I have two old Bearcat scanners, a BC-101 and a BC-210.
        The BC-101 you have to program by toggling the 16 channel
        switches and then pushing down the enter switch.  It is one of
        those ones where you have to program using a mathematical
        formula and then take the result of the formula and use the
        nuumber to program the frequency in a binary scheme.  The BC-101
        is a bit of a curiosity where it has 16 channel lights that go
        across like an old crystal scanner, yet it is programmable.  The
        downside is that you don't have a frequency display to verify
        what you programmed in, but it still is a nice scanner.  The
        BC-210 is a 10 channel, digital display scanner.
        I believe your WhamO-10 is programmed in a similar fashion as my
        BC-101, gotta check my list.  I think Radio Shack has a similar
        scanner called a COMP-100 but I have never saw one.  One of the
        things I learned over the Internet is that the BC-101 has
        magnetic core memory to hold the freqs in its memory.
Chuck, who likes old scanners.....
DE KA3WRW
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