I was discussing scanners with a friend of mine on 144MHz earlier today, and we got onto the subject of memories. He's going on vacation [holiday] next month and he has to pass through airport security, so I reccomended he reset the memories on his scanner (The European authorities take a dim stance on scanning receivers). He wasn't too keen on doing this, as he didn't want to reprogram everything whilst sat on the beach!
I came to the conclusion that having a scanner which can take SD cards would be a good idea... You have a scanner which has an inbuilt memory, say something like 5,000 "channels". Then it's expandable with cheap and easy to obtain SD or similar small format memory cards - you could store dozens of systems/groups on one 128MB SD card, and then select which ones to load into the scanner via the internal software. No need to take a PC with you to re-load the scanner with a whole new set of systems.
Anyone else like the sound of this?
Since Uniden have added GPS to their current line of radios, I can tell they're not one to shy away from breaking new ground when it comes to scanners.
I came to the conclusion that having a scanner which can take SD cards would be a good idea... You have a scanner which has an inbuilt memory, say something like 5,000 "channels". Then it's expandable with cheap and easy to obtain SD or similar small format memory cards - you could store dozens of systems/groups on one 128MB SD card, and then select which ones to load into the scanner via the internal software. No need to take a PC with you to re-load the scanner with a whole new set of systems.
Anyone else like the sound of this?
Since Uniden have added GPS to their current line of radios, I can tell they're not one to shy away from breaking new ground when it comes to scanners.