Ok Eric and all, thanks for your responses.  I remember checking 
out the Icom at HRO a number of years ago and thinking that it 
was a very frustrating piece of equipment.  It was the receiver 
that had a screen on it so people could see pictures from cameras 
mounted on race cars, something I had no interest in.  73, Jim 
WA6EKS

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Eric Clegg <[log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date sent: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 10:22:35 -0700
>Subject: Re: Pocket wideband receivers??

>HI Jim,
>I think the only two wide band pocket receivers out here now are 
one from
>Icom and one from Alinco.

>Universal Radio carries both of them and the descriptions can be 
found in
>their catalog under wide band receivers.

>I read up on both of them and they are quite a bit more expensive 
than the
>Yaesu VR-500 was.

>I think the Alinco has some sort of rudimentary speech in it.

>I'm not sure how much it reads.

>I also had a Yaesu VR-500 at one time.

>I thought both receivers were needlessly complicated so have not 
bothered
>with any of them.  Others might have other opinions!

>73,

>Eric
>KU3I