104 Scanner Features: Which frequency bands - 200, 400 or 800Mhz
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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.
104 Scanner Features: Which frequency bands - 200, 400 or 800Mhz
For scanning at races, the primary thing you want to look for is 800MHz
capability. Not all the scanners have this, and a lot of the drivers
use that band. If you ask for this tell them you want the business band
stuff, sometimes people use 800MHz as a pseudonym for mobile cell phone
frequencies.
The downside is the higher cost and that at the moment, only Penske
Racing uses the 800Mhz band in IndyCars (a handful also do in NASCAR).
But if you are on a budget, then get a scanner that can at the very
least, access the 400Mhz band - practically all the IndyCar teams use
this bandwidth. For Formula One: forget it! All teams scramble their
800-900Mhz frequencies.
Generally, most of the activity takes place on frequencies between 30
and 1000 MHz, so don't be misled by scanner models boasting coverage
from 3 to 2000 MHz. There's currently not much to monitor in the 1000 -
2000 MHz range.
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