Scanning Frequencies

[Egbert]

Hi, I am about to upgrade an old hand-held Sony receiver and I need some advice on modern scanning frequencies?

The two which appear best for me is either:

100Khz to 1300Mhz

or

530Khz to 3000Mhz.

What would I miss below 530Khz?

What do I gain above 1300Mhz up to 3000Mhz.

In the past I have been restricted SW, LSB, USB, CW, Airband and Marineband but now I wish to expand to include new experiences.

Soon I will be off on a round the world cruise Dover to Vancouver, hence my interest in maximising my listening potential by upgrading to a new modern hand-held receiver.

Can you advise me re the above?

Many thanks

 

[davidmc36]

I would go with the lower range. Everything in the higher ranges are sattelite radio/PCS/GPS/Digital audio broadcasting. It appears there may be some "Maritime Mobile" in the 110-190khz area but the rest of the most of that area below 530 is radionavigation, NDB's for Aircraft and I am not sure what it is for marine. Either way it doesn't look like you will miss much. There is the International radiotelegraph distress and calling frequency at 500khz. Maybe you would get a chance to hear something on that.

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/vwapj/spectallocation-08.pdf/$FILE/spectallocation-08.pdf

I realize that this is a Canadian document but it should reflect international allocations in most of the important areas.

There are some other links here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_allocation

 

[cordell818]

i have a pro 197 to have it programed what do i have to do first

 

[hoser147]

I agree 100-1300mhz range. Check the Database for more info on your destinations and for your cruise ship.