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
--
Bob Sprenger

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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

Radio Shack use to sell a 4" unamplified speaker for about $14.00. I
don't think they have this one any more. I have several and they did
really great for both base and handhelds, much improvement in audio quality.

Radio Shack does still sell a 4" amplified speaker. You might want to
check on that as it was the same thing but just with an audio amp.

Radio Shack also still sells a 2 1/2" speaker. I have 3 of those and
really don't like them at all. In fact my handhelds speaker produced
better audio.

George
http://www.MilAirComms.com

I would also suggest an external speaker. Perhaps plug it into your stereo !

jw
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:05:11 +0000 (UTC), in rec.radio.scanner - :

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



You could plug it into your home stereo, it will sound amazing and the cable
is only a few $$ at RS.

" 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)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/

I recently bought a new surround sound system and recycled the 3 "cube"
(they are small something like 3 or 4 inches)speakers that where the rear
channels, they are for the scanners now.
Anthony
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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
--
Bob Sprenger