As I recall the radio, I can agree with you 100% on that. Scanning a couple
frequencies is alright, but if you start with a few of them, it's just too
slow though it is faster than some I've had. I never really liked it as a
scanner though. I actually think FM broadcasts sound better on the THF6A.
Not great,b ut better than the T90A. That's just my thoughts on it though.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: radios with wide-band receive
> Matt:
> The IC T90 does in fact replace a scanner and FM radio.
> The issue with its scanning feature is, that, as with most amateur
> transceivers, the scan rate is extremely slow when compared to a regular
> scanner.
> So, for instance, when you program 200 channels into a regular uniden or
> radio shack scanner, it will scan all 200 channels in a matter of about 1
> second or less. On the IC T90A, and all other ham radios i have ever
> used,
> that many channels would take nearly 20 seconds to scan through just once.
> Which makes it fairly useless as a scanner, because by the time you get to
> a
> channel that has traffic, the traffic is done and you have missed the
> transmission.
> As far as FM broadcast goes, yes, it receives it rather well, but the
> audio
> is terrible on wide band FM.
> Its extremely thin and there is no low end frequency response even when
> using headphones.
> This is a good feature for receiving voice traffic on the ham freqs, or
> listening to other traffic, but not for music or extended listening on the
> broadcast bands.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mike" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 2:08 PM
> Subject: Re: radios with wide-band receive
>
>
>> That radio will cover from AM below 550KHz to around 1GHz though not very
>> well on its vhf/uhf antenna but it will bring in vhf broadcast OK The UK
>> number is E90 I have one and oh yes it can be set to give the frequency
>> in
>> morse.
>>
>> mike
>> amature call M0DMD
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of matt V
>> Sent: 29 July 2007 05:17
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: radios with wide-band receive
>>
>> well, i should have mentioned which radio I am looking at getting I
> suppose
>> lol, I think maybe i mentioned it via other posts but, I am wanting to
>> get
>> my hands on the ic-t90a i believe it is, the icom ht with morse code
> readout
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 11:11 PM
>> Subject: Re: radios with wide-band receive
>>
>>
>> > Hi Matt.
>> >
>> > It might or might not depending upon which radio you are talking about.
>> > In
>> > the strict sense, wide band receive means that it receives frequencies
>> > outside the ham bands, like the VHF frequencies between 148 and 174
>> > MHz,
>> > but it can include other things as well. For example, most of the
>> > newer
>> > Yaesu HTs with wide band receive actually are general coverage
> throughout
>> > the VHF and UHF spectrum including FM broadcast.
>> >
>> > Some HTs have the ability to receive both wideband FM and standard
> narrow
>> > band FM.
>> >
>> > I haven't had a lot of experience with these DC to daylight radios
> because
>> > in the part of the city I live in, such radios tend to suffer badly
>> > from
>> > frontend overload. But, I did play with a blind friend's Yaesu VX5R
> last
>> > year and it seemed ok for the most part, although the keyboard was a
>> > little
>> > too complicated for my tastes.
>> >
>> > 73, de Lou K2LKK
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > At 06:46 PM 7/28/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>> >>hi all
>> >>I see the radio I want has this feature on it, so what exactly does
>> >>wide
> =
>> >>band receive mean? Is it what I think, it will to make a long story =
>> >>short, replace the need for a scanner and an fm radio or doesn't it =
>> >>receive that stuff?
>> >>If it does, I'm thinking wide-band would be a good thing
>> >>
>> >>matt
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