wanting a icom scanner

[AVL]

hello a friend of mine has a icom irc 20 he likes it and i would like some info on it (price and will it pick up apco 25) and anything else that might be useful thanks.

 

[n4voxgill]

No it will not work with apco 25. Icom does not make a receiver that will follow a trunked radio system. Your pretty limited to Uniden and GRE/Radio Shack with trunk tracking and/or apco25.

 

[trap5858]

I have an R-20- I love it. My main monitoring targets are Air band, military air, VHF marine and some HF. It takes a while to learn the ropes, the software helps with programming. It has many features that none of the other high end wide band scanning receivers have such as the built in record feature. It also has a dual frequency receiver.

So depending on what you want it to do, it might be the right radio for you. It does not receive trunked communications and there is a chunk of the 800 mHz band that is blocked in addition to the cell phone frequencies.

Good luck

 

[cristisphoto]

ALSO there is the AOR 8200MK3

Also consider the AOR 8200 MK3
I am too looking at both of these I already have the Icom IC-R3
Uniden BCD396T, and the RadioShack Pro97
But I want MORE lol
\and USB capable HF is My primary goal....
and AOR you can control vial PC..
Although ICom has way better USA support
and is cheaper..
I may eventually get both but for now I will get maybe the AOR
anywyas just giving you a heads up lol
Crista

 

[302HO]

I have an R20 on the way. Does this unit come with programming software? If not, what software is a good choice for it?


thanks

 

[cristisphoto]

To my knowledge it DOES NOT come with:roll:
You have to buy seperate,,
Out of Bellevue, Washington
The AOR, "Workshop" is FREE
as is the UASD from / FOR Uniden...
Cables forAOR and ICOM are as well Seperate and Costs more lol
ALL cablesm batteries, Software ETc is FRee and hence INCLUDED with Uniden

Just FYI
Check out Bithe Icom 's USA and the AOR's USA sites.....
AND check out
ScannersUnlimited,com
out of San Carlos,CA

He has ALL
and for CHAP IF you buy Via Online as opposed too In person....
SOOO
yeah they al have their advantages and so forth
Warm regards
Crista

 

[mancow]

No it doesn't come with it but the CSR20 is available online if you look. I think it may be in the egroup files section but it has been a while since I "acquired" mine.

They also have the program to convert the digital recordings to a .WAV.