166.5375 going to 166.5400

[mipsyop]

When trying to enter federal freqs into my pro-92, many of the freqs go out 4 decimal places, but when I put it into win92, it rounds up to the nearest hundredth as listed in the title. Any ideas how I can fix this?

 

[ChrisP]

When trying to enter federal freqs into my pro-92, many of the freqs go out 4 decimal places, but when I put it into win92, it rounds up to the nearest hundredth as listed in the title. Any ideas how I can fix this?

You can't but don't worry about it. Many of the GRE made Radio Shack models had the wrong step-size in the federal VHF band - they were built that way. But the bandwidth is wide enough on these scanners that 166.535 or 166.54 is close enough and you won't miss anything.

- Chris

 

[jack103]

DoD !!!!!!!

 

[SCPD]

Does the Pro 106/197 do this also??

 

[mipsyop]

thx for the info

 

[rankin39]

Recently designed scanners have the correct 12.5 KHz. steps; only older radios rounded off. As was pointed out, they were only 2.5 KHz. off-frequency and broad enough to hear even weak transmissions that close. I listened to transmissions that way for many years and never noticed the slightest difference in reception. Don't worry about it.

Bob, WoNXN

 

[SCPD]

ok, thanks, will be getting the 197 here soon