PRO 83 Signal stalker question

[Bacilon]

Is the PRO 83s new feature SIGNAL STALKER a pseudo-frequency counter or just a more refined search function? Seems to me that you wouldnt have to assign search bands to lock a transmission signal nearby if it was a true built in frequency counter. I picked up a PRO83 yesterday, so far I am pretty happy with it, just a bit confused about SS.

 

[STiMULi]

It is not really so much an assignment as it is meant to be a restrictor or filter. If you are not looking for looking for anything in the air band turn it off.

It will really find anything in its range fairly quickly too. Sometimes you will get hits from a TV transmitter 9000 times in the UHF and really looking for stuff in the VHF area so you will shut down the UHF band or turn on only the VHF band.

Also I found out today that unless you are in the boonies it is not a good idea to use an external antenna for Signal Stalking because you will pick up garbage from miles away

 

[K5MAR]

Think of it as being able to block certain frequency ranges that you aren't interested in. Not a real frequency counter but better than a standard search.

Mark S.

 

[Voyager]

Is the PRO 83s new feature SIGNAL STALKER a pseudo-frequency counter or just a more refined search function? Seems to me that you wouldnt have to assign search bands to lock a transmission signal nearby if it was a true built in frequency counter. I picked up a PRO83 yesterday, so far I am pretty happy with it, just a bit confused about SS.

First, you don't have to assign search bands. You can LOCKOUT certain bands from being captured. It is a nearfield receiver, so it is much closer to a frequency counter than just a fast search. Actually, it IS a frequency counter - it's just that when receiving, it rounds the counted frequency to the one that most closely matches the radio bandplan, so you can't see the actual frequency counted.

Joe M.

 

[INDY72]

What will be cool, is if they get it set up with a scanner that does the proper SNFM for VHF. and does CTCSS/CDCSS tones...... then youd not only get to see the proper freq that is hit on, but any tones used on it. And if they add this feature in on a digital capable scanner... well that gets that much closer to the "ultimate" scanner eh?

 

[Voyager]

What will be cool, is if they get it set up with a scanner that does the proper SNFM for VHF. and does CTCSS/CDCSS tones...... then youd not only get to see the proper freq that is hit on, but any tones used on it. And if they add this feature in on a digital capable scanner... well that gets that much closer to the "ultimate" scanner eh?

You just described the BC246T (except for the digital part). I'm sure Uniden is working on a digital version of the BC246T.

Joe M.