" wrote:

We are using a Radio Shack pro 89 to listen to police
and fire. Would like to upgrade to a scanner with
better audio quality. Portability not important as
scanner is used in home most of the time. Any
suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks


I agree with George, just add a better external speaker. Like he said, you
can find several to choose from at Radio Shack. The non-amplified ones work
just fine, or look at the amplified ones.

If you want to get really fancy, try one of those amplified speakers for
walkman-style portable radios with a stereo-to-mono adapter (the speaker is
stereo, the scanner is mono). I've had great success with some of the
cheaper ones - the output of the cheap ones best match the voice frequencies
and two speakers are certainly easy to hear.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

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