Bill Crocker wrote in
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T-bone wrote:
wrote in news:1105980741.679905.177450
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So yes, people advertsing their scanners as UNBLOCKED !!!!! are really
saying very little in practice - The only good reason to pay a premium
to get one would be to bank on the possibility that some other service
of interest will eventually move into this frequency region.
That's not entirely true. Take Icom, and Yaesu, for example. When they
block out the cellular portion fo the spectrum, they block out
additional bandwidth below, and above the frequencies that the FCC
requires them to omit. So you may not be able to monitor perfectly
legal trunked systems, because they fall into this blocked-overlap, so
to speak. In addition to that , many radios have to block portions of
the spectrum that are in an entirely different band, due to the
possibility of receiving cellular images. So you end up with a very
crippled radio!
Bill Crocker
Well ... I guess its only crippled insofar as theres anything in the
blocked portions worth listening to - And if Icom ect are dumb enough to
block legit portions, then I simply would not purchase one.
As far as blocking possible mirror freqs, I imagine they would be in the
700-900 range, and as such not much of a sacrifice.
I thought the law was stupid when first enacted, and haven't changed that
opinion.
The responsibility to ensure private comms should have rested exclusively
with cell phone providers - And as we all know, anyone with half a notion
could listen to them nonetheless.
I've learned to live with the ban though, and even though I have radios
perfectly capable of receiving blocked bands, I never do - And would not
pay much of a premium for a scanner that is unblocked ... Except, like I
said, as a hedge against someday a service of interest moving to these
bands.