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UV-5X3 Scanning

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Anyone has the UV-5X3 ... using it in scanning?

While I primarily use Moto XTS and Astro Saber radios, with 396/996 scanners, I'd like something pocket sized and somewhat disposable for certain applications. It is not always practical to shove an XTS3000 in your pocket.

I tried the UV-5R and UV-82 for scanning a long time ago, they were awful, but Baofeng now saw scanning is improved on the UV-5X3 ... so any insights would be greatly appreciated.
 
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sefrischling said:
Anyone has the UV-5X3 ... using it in scanning?

While I primarily use Moto XTS and Astro Saber radios, with 396/996 scanners, I'd like something pocket sized and somewhat disposable for certain applications. It is not always practical to shove an XTS3000 in your pocket.

I tried the UV-5R and UV-82 for scanning a long time ago, they were awful, but Baofeng now saw scanning is improved on the UV-5X3 ... so any insights would be greatly appreciated.
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I received mine today. It's my first such radio. I'm using it to scan local stations as I type this. I don't have anything to compare it to, but it seems to work fine for my purposes.
 
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Not good as a scanner. Slow as the old one. Just added new features. Good for amateur repeater scans by hams; but not anything else.

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A wise man once said that when you have a radio with a front end as wide as a barn door, it doesn't do a very good job of discriminating between noise and the signal you wish to monitor.
If you really want to monitor a bunch of non amateur radio frequencies and you do not want a radio that suffers from pager overload, or just general over load of the front end, you do not choose one of those cheap Chinese radios.
I have a very old Uniden / Radio Shack handheld scanner that has excellent battery life and a very sensitive front end. The sensitivity is actually better then the Uniden BearCat 890XLT.
The audio is not very loud, and it is almost the size of a brick, but it has given my family 30 years of faithful service with no complaints.
 
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KD8DVR said:
Not good as a scanner. Slow as the old one. Just added new features. Good for amateur repeater scans by hams; but not anything else.
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I was looking at it for just 6 channels, that's it, a mix of UHF and VHF. This way when I'm just wandering around I don't need three Minitor pagers or two XTS3000 radios ... for $50.
 
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sefrischling said:
I was looking at it for just 6 channels, that's it, a mix of UHF and VHF. This way when I'm just wandering around I don't need three Minitor pagers or two XTS3000 radios ... for $50.
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Ah. Yeah...might do ok for just 6.

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Ah. Yeah...might do ok for just 6.

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Does 6 channels in a little over a second.

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Three days using the UV-5X3 scanning just five channels and it is great. Given that it is nearly the same size as a Minitor IV , and with the 2.5" Nagoya NA-810 antenna, it is still tiny , I may end up using it ... although I wish it had the alert beeps from two-tone.
 
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sefrischling said:
Anyone has the UV-5X3 ... using it in scanning?

While I primarily use Moto XTS and Astro Saber radios, with 396/996 scanners, I'd like something pocket sized and somewhat disposable for certain applications. It is not always practical to shove an XTS3000 in your pocket.

I tried the UV-5R and UV-82 for scanning a long time ago, they were awful, but Baofeng now saw scanning is improved on the UV-5X3 ... so any insights would be greatly appreciated.
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Stick to your Xts. There is no comparison!
 
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