Scanners are expensive because people like to feel they are part of an
exclusive hobby, and because the ordinary Joe Blow has too much completely
disposable income.

The science is not new or expensive. Eveybody has it figured out.
They stamp these radios out like happy meal toys.

Consider those Family Radios.

Each month the manufacturers come out with new radios that have new
features.

They've been capable of incorporating all these features from the very
first radio. Family radios and scanner radios aint rocket brain science to
these manufacturers.
They string us along because that's what the market will bear.

The market bears it because Joe Blow has 500 bucks he isn't bright enough to
hold on to.


"Jim" wrote in message
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Granted only few % of population want to listen to scanner.
Still, $$$$ (average $500) for a electronic device is a bit too much.
Don't you think?

I can buy a nice PC for $500!!!