nice.
I've had my eye on that radio for a while too.
 great price for the features you get.

for those who don't know, the VR500 is a yaesu handheld wide band receiver.
It does all the tradditional modes, but no digital decoding like the newer 
trunk tracking scanners.
It does have scan capability and pretty decent memory, but it isn't designed 
as a scanning radio.

speaking of that, has anyone played with the uniden procall I think it's 
called? or protocall digital scanner?
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 12:08 PM
Subject: vr-500


>I went to aes yesterday and spent my Christmas money and bought a vr-500.
> At first look, it seems fairly usable from the keyboard, I've figured out
> how to change modes, and write to memory.  Seems fairly sensitive,
> although i wonder what the duck that comes with it is optimized for.  If I
> go to th weather channel, I get a better signal if I curl my fingers
> around the antenna.  Anyone else on list got any comments or experience
> with this thing?
> 73
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr
> open Node 3148
> Las Vegas