Scanners vs Receivers

20Apr 2021 by Phil No Comments

Scanners can Scan. Receivers can Receive. Receivers can also Scan and Scanners can also Receive. So what makes them different?

What You Will Learn in This Week's Podcast:

Scanners and Receivers are more like cousins than brothers and sisters in the radio world.
Both receive and scan frequencies
They don’t transmit.
Receivers have a larger receive foot-print than a typical scanner.
Typically 100 KHz is the bottom of a receiver, but you can go up to a couple of gigahertz.
A typical scanners start as low as 25 MHz and go up to 1300 MHz
Scanners will typically not support monitoring AM Broadcast Bands, but Receivers will.
Scanners do not support SWL monitoring, but Receivers will.
Scanners have more modes that are not found in receivers; NXDN, DMR, P25, are common modes of reception present in a scanner.
Receivers have modes that are not in present in a scanner, such as upper and lower sidebands, AM and CW
Some high end receivers will do D-STAR, P-25, dPMR, and NXDN.
Receivers can be very affordable starting less than $200 and going over $10,000 for a high end model.
Scanners can start at $100 and cost over $600 for a high end model.
With close call and signal stalking, scanners can help you find a more relative frequency faster than a receiver.

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