103 Scanner Features: Setting Frequencies
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This article is from the Motorsport FAQ, by A H Henry bspahh@midge.bath.ac.uk with numerous contributions by others.
103 Scanner Features: Setting Frequencies
The crystal controlled models are cheaper, but require the user
purchase and install a $ 5 crystal for each frequency of interest.
Programmable (synthesised) units don't require crystals and usually
have a keypad that permits you to store frequencies into channels.
Programmables are now so cheap it doesn't make sense to buy a crystal
unit - especially when each team may use a dozen frequencies at each
race.
Make sure that a programmable model has a "search" feature, which
allows it to search all the frequencies between two frequency limits of
your choosing. The lowest cost programmables can't search.
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