sbruno82630
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I was looking into having a motorola portable as a scanner. Yes I understand it can only scan a select amount of channels at a time as its a radio, but I was wondering if it would be a smart idea. The radio is as much as a scanner that I want and I feel that the radio is a better choice due to the battery capacity and radio build. I will have the person im buying it from program it for me so that wont be an issue. I was thinking about the XPR 3500 or the XPR 3500E does anyone know the difference between the both? I was also concerned of mdc1200 key ups working properly on these models. Will the chirps work properly and be a short noise instead of a longer burst? Lastly when they program it for me how do zones work? Are those like banks for the uniden scanner number? How many banks are there? How many channels are permitted per bank? Please provide any information that would be very useful and radio recomendations for this use and please note that I would get it programmed only to monitor not talk.