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VK7ZJA
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Rating: 3/5
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Jan 29, 2005 14:47
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cute, but only mediocre
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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When released, the Icom R1 was the smallest, cutest scanner ever. It had RX range of about 500kHz to 1300 MHz, AM, FM & WFM with 100 memories.
Quite a few innovative scanning methods.
But, being so small, it had problems, mainly related to selectivity. Sensitive enough, though at HF it was a bit nasty - a small antenna could only hear weak HF signals, adding a large antenna caused HF to overload and squeak & squak all over the bands.
On VHF & UHF, in a busy area, it's selectivity is woeful, you will hear any strong nearby signal +/- 20 MHz!
But if used in an area where there's not so many nearby strong signals, it's fine.
I think it's still the cutest scanner available, but, the technology inside is only mediocre as far as RF abilities is concerned.
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