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echo: scanners
to: NATHAN BOLLINGER
from: TONY SZABLOWSKI
date: 1997-05-06 16:25:00
subject: Re: frequency counter

-> >From what I gathered when looking for a freq counter, the Radshacks
-> >garbage.  Very low sensitivity.  You have to be practically standing
-> >right next to a transmitter to get something.
->
-> Well, I wouldn't call it "garbage," but you're right; they aren't
-> very sensitive. But then, that might have been the way the RadShak
-> engineers intended it. Like I said, it works very well as a "test
-> bench" counter, and if you'll look in the catalog, you'll notice
-> that it's listed with the test equipment, NOT with the scanners.
But since this is an echo about _scanners_ and scanning, one assumes
that it would be used in conjunction with said apparatus or for finding
active freqs, but not as _actual_ testing equipment.
Tony
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