Portable ham radio

[bucknut937]

where if possabile could i find a portable ham radio mostly for scanner use and sometimes talking on the 440mhz band with sometimes on the 145mhz area as well.

[AYUDI]

If you want to do both look for a kenwood th-f6a a true dual band portable with general receive you can talk on vfo a and scan on vfo b. Any ham radio shop ie HRO AES etc have them. Used run around 200 and up.

[kc2rgw]

The other one is the VX7R or 8R from Yaesu they are also dual-band dual-display.

I use my VX7R scanning on one VFO with the repeater set up on the other regularly. The free VX Commander software is great to have too....you'll need to buy a programming cable though...or make one.

[gewecke]

Originally Posted by bucknut937

where if possabile could i find a portable ham radio mostly for scanner use and sometimes talking on the 440mhz band with sometimes on the 145mhz area as well.

Do you have a amateur radio license allowing you to do this??
The rest is easy...
N9ZAS

[bucknut937]

no i dont have a licence yet but im looking into it thats why looking into portables so i could some skywarn...

ZAC