I should point out, that the more scanner owners become aware of these important issues, the more likely it is that manufacturers will place a higher priority on them in future designs and models.
This has become evident in the Ham radio world over the last ten years or so, with manufacturers concentrating more and more on the raw RF performance of their products. Features such as roofing filters, single IF architecture and figures highlighting 3rd Order Intercept, IP3 as well as sensitivity numbers are now routine in product brochures. Ham manufacturers now know that when dropping the big ones on new products, consumers are looking behind the flashy colour displays and rows and rows of knobs and buttons. Sure, bells and whistles are important, but if you don't get the RF stages right, you end up with an impressive looking paperweight!
Lets make sure that the next generation of scanners are designed properly!
We need to demand that manufacturers allocate a little more time and maybe only another $10-$20 on parts, to bring the RF performance up to where it should be, instead of simply recycling sub-standard RF designs and adding new User Interfaces and features, then expecting us to drop 600 big ones on a receiver that essentially hasn't progressed much (RF wise) from units produced 15 years ago!
Rant over
