eorange
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I personally think this is all marketing and completely arbitrary, but here goes anyway.
Why are some radios classified as "communications receivers", not "scanners"? Case in point: more than a few posts over the years (not necessarily here) have strongly indicated that the VR-500 is NOT a scanner. It's a communications receiver.
Despite the fact that "communications receiver" is silkscreened on the display...it still has memories, alpha tags, memory banks, lockout, multiple receive modes, and can scan and search. Is it not a scanner?
If there IS a defining characteristic of one vs the other, then I'd genuinely like to know. But technically speaking, I can't see the difference. Perhaps it's the wideband receive capability, but how does that knock it out of the scanner class?
Why are some radios classified as "communications receivers", not "scanners"? Case in point: more than a few posts over the years (not necessarily here) have strongly indicated that the VR-500 is NOT a scanner. It's a communications receiver.
Despite the fact that "communications receiver" is silkscreened on the display...it still has memories, alpha tags, memory banks, lockout, multiple receive modes, and can scan and search. Is it not a scanner?
If there IS a defining characteristic of one vs the other, then I'd genuinely like to know. But technically speaking, I can't see the difference. Perhaps it's the wideband receive capability, but how does that knock it out of the scanner class?