Someone mentioned milair earlier. I didn't know what that was so I googled it yesterday and that does sound interesting.
Now that I've looked through the forum I see that I should have posted this thread under General Scanners, but too late now. ;-)
When I was reading about the Uniden 346XT yesterday, I came across this ---
Repeater Find
The BC346XT has the Uniden “Repeater Find” feature. When the radio detects activity on frequencies it recognizes as repeater inputs in the UHF and 800/900 MHz. bands it will check for activity on the corresponding repeater output channel. If traffic is heard there then the radio will monitor the output channel instead, assuming that the traffic is being heard thru a repeater.
This allows you to hear traffic from responding units that may be out of range of your radio but being rebroadcast on the repeater. Since UHF and 800/900 MHz. have dedicated input/output frequencies this feature applies there, VHF repeaters do not have dedicated inputs so this feature does not work on VHF. --------
I know we have a lot of repeaters in our area, because I hear on a lot of calls that whoever is on this, that or the other repeater. I don't know if the repeaters are VHF though.
I'm really showing my total ignorance now.
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