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Originally posted by crange2
As for the receiver sensitivity issue, I know Icom makes a pretty sweet handheld radio/video scanner receiver. This covers up -> the x10 frequency range and allows for external antennas also....has a cool little color lcd screen too....sweeet
http://www.icomamerica.com/receivers.../icr3main.html
is it just me or did my previous account get totally screwed up? Permissions and all that jazz...
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I've got one of those (the American cellular-blocked model) and it's a pretty neat toy. The problem is that it will not scan while in video mode. You can turn to non-video and sweep the spectrum where you think there may be video and then switch modes, but it's not easy.
The best way I have found is to try and target a particular band and manually use the freq. dial to scan through. Since you hear static on the audio if there's no carrier, an effective approach is to just listen and scan... When the static stops or changes, have a quick look at the screen to see if there's anything decent. I suppose this method of "war scanning" isn't very safe driving, but it has yielded mildly interesting results.
I went to Radio shack and bought a UHF look and a bnc adapter for it and used that to make a directional antenna - that helps better locate the origin point.