Best Personal Radios for Scanning

if i have a complaint, and this is a minor one, it is that in scanning mode the program will stop for only three seconds on a captured signal before it moves on.

the scanning feature becomes annoying because it will only scan stations in its bandwidth.

i found on the web the bands that are good at night and day, and began scanning them and writing down strong stations.

the attenuation control for the antenna input level is very useful if using the scanning mode; especially when local am, fm, and tv stations plus other rf sources are producing rf overloading.

you can check out a small picture review i made of the 909 here: http://www.geocities.com/scanning_arkansas/sangean_ats909.html?1134079869143 i will try to do a thourough review later.

my bedtime listening has been restored and i spend blissful hours turning that tuning knob and scanning the dials!

the memory banks (231 of them) are very well organized, allow banks and automatic scanning through the range and auto selection through the bank frequencies.

in minutes i had been around the world and was now scanning the bands on my own.

band scanning has been a weak point of digital radios...

well, there is a reason for this- a regular tuning wheel would lead to noisy "chuffing" (that chuf-chuf sound you get when auto-scanning).

2) band scanning is not continuous over all frequencies/wavelengths, but can only be done one band at a time with a key push needed to switch to the next band.

bought a sangean 504 it had the full band for shortwave after sitting at home scanning the airwaves could not recieve any stations on any bands it even comes with a 20' external antenna which i also

the fine tuning feature is very helpful when scanning for shortwave signals.

pros: great sound, nice handle, batteries last a long time, great for band-scanning (no chuffing) cons: switches seem cheap, drifting, no dedicated clock the bottom line: great sound at a