R1500 versus R2500

[Mike1]

Hello,

I'm thinking about an investment on a new scanner, a R1500 or R2500.
I have a R20, R5, R2 and some other brands (AOR one of them), but I
like the Icom's much more.

My question is: what makes more sense to buy, a R1500 or the R2500?

I've seem on advertisements that they seem both to have same tech
specs (sensivity, memos, and others), so I don't understand if the
price difference justifies the more expensive R2500 just for the sake of performance.

I don't need dual receive (that I have on R20 and don't use often),
the diversity antennas don't seem to give a much better reception on
a building, and no APCO25/digital modes, just a sensitive and
selective receiver on HF/VHF/UHF - up to 500MHz.

So, what reasons could make me decide about the R2500 instead of the
R1500?

I've seen some people sell their R8500's to buy the R2500, are they
comparable? in that case the R2500 should be much better than the
R1500.

Mike

 

[vince48]

Mike
If you do not need dual receivers, no P25 decode, that go for the 1500. I had one before I purchased my first 2500. Both receivers use the same hardware and receiver specs. I really enjoyed my 1500 so much that I bought the 2500.
Between the Icom software and TrunckPCR, both models rock. Take into account the very dumb limitations Icom burdened both models with, you will enjoy either one. Anyway, my $.002 worth.

vince48

 

[Mike1]

Mike
If you do not need dual receivers, no P25 decode, that go for the 1500. I had one before I purchased my first 2500. Both receivers use the same hardware and receiver specs. I really enjoyed my 1500 so much that I bought the 2500.
Between the Icom software and TrunckPCR, both models rock. Take into account the very dumb limitations Icom burdened both models with, you will enjoy either one. Anyway, my $.002 worth.

vince48

Vince,
Thanks for your reply.
Mike

 

[Mike1]

R1500 new owner

Hello,

I'm thinking about an investment on a new scanner, a R1500 or R2500.
I have a R20, R5, R2 and some other brands (AOR one of them), but I
like the Icom's much more.

My question is: what makes more sense to buy, a R1500 or the R2500?

I've seem on advertisements that they seem both to have same tech
specs (sensivity, memos, and others), so I don't understand if the
price difference justifies the more expensive R2500 just for the sake of performance.

I don't need dual receive (that I have on R20 and don't use often),
the diversity antennas don't seem to give a much better reception on
a building, and no APCO25/digital modes, just a sensitive and
selective receiver on HF/VHF/UHF - up to 500MHz.

So, what reasons could make me decide about the R2500 instead of the
R1500?

I've seen some people sell their R8500's to buy the R2500, are they
comparable? in that case the R2500 should be much better than the
R1500.

Mike

Yesterday returned home with a big smile in my face and a R1500 under my arm...
First tests run Ok, didn't connect to pc but used the remote head to benchmark with R5.

The results were good, mainly because of the superior audio from the R1500 that makes everything more intelligible and pleasant, the great sensivity seemed the same, just a big difference on the s-meter, the r1500 seems under-scale the signal (while I read 9 +30/full scale on the R5, the R1500 shows only 5), the tests were done on VHF/air.

The first feelings are that this toy has a lots of capacities to explore, (if-shift p.ex) and that it's a completely different listening experience from using a handheld - like I was used to.

All-in-all and so far in the begining, I don't regret the investment.

Mike

 

[Turbo68]

The Receivers that you mentioned do an Excellent Job and I have never had a problem with AOR/ICOM after 20 years & at the end of the day it depends what you want to do with the Radio.

Good luck Lino.

 

[iMONITOR]

Yesterday returned home with a big smile in my face and a R1500 under my arm.

Mike

Congratulations on the purchase of your R1500 Mike! I have the PCR-1500 (without the remote head), and really enjoy the versatility, and wide-band capability.

Be sure and check out TrunkPCR, even if it's used with conventional non-trunked systems. The Spectrum Sweep function is awesome for finding new unknown frequencies out there!

Bill

 

[n2pqq]

You might want to take a look at this link for software upgrade.




http://www.icom.jp/world/download/receiver.html

 

[iMONITOR]

You might want to take a look at this link for software upgrade.


http://www.icom.jp/world/download/receiver.html

Thanks for the update info! I had previously updated to 2.0e. I wasn't aware that 2.01 was out.