In Reply to: order of input importance??? posted by gregz on October 11, 2000 at 01:11:42:
: has anyone found if there is any truth to inputing freqs into memory banks into any scanner in ascending order for better reception??
: i always wonder if this helps any scanner at all???
: the only thing i ever noticed is that my pro 94 is more sensitive down instead of up on manual scan (search). But not one of my other scanners behave like this.
: what do you guys think?
Depends on the design of the radio. For example, my the CPU in my AOR3000 adds a delay of 170ms anytime the scan crosses a band boundary. I would assume this delay has to do with allowing the PLL to lock or for the PIN-diodes that switch the front-end filters.
Whatever the case, scanning 151.000 152.000 153.000 450.000 451.000 452.000 is 3 times as fast as compared to 151.000 450.000 152.000 451.000 153.000 452.000.
- Rich