![]() ![]() Sensitivity is ok, but not as good as a dedicated scanner. Bandwidth is not adjustable and is fixed on airband. Attenuation and rf gain work, but you can't do ECSS by going into ssb. With the built-in whip, you can get a bit more sensitivity by reducing the whip length by about 2 or 3 segments. I used an external Icom airband duck for the initial testing and all seems fine. Actually, the noise floor is so low, that you may not even need the squelch! A small amount of dead-air in the background isn't that annoying when the noise floor is pretty low. ![]() The good thing is that the squelch works fine. So, one could roll around in the fast-vfo mode, but for the most part, I just use it for various single-channel monitoring. Slow is 1khz, and the up/down buttons are 100 khz. The fast-vfo setting is at 25 khz! Somebody was paying attention. However, they have put some thought into it. After a few days of use, here we go! (No, it doesn't hold a candle to my R75 or Icom 746-Pro.) ![]()
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