Well, it's a new box for what I'm used to. I've ordered a fair few Qanshengs and the box is always the same. More compact, all brown, and fatter. This box is different. The inner tray plastic is also different. It's clear and seems a bit tougher. I've seen many people, most of them probably resellers of these radios complain about the inner tray arriving damaged from transit / customs etc. They have to travel far and wide all over the world. Maybe this new box will be better. Mine arrived undamaged, so yep, looks promising. And inside is less crammed.
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New Box Design For the K5-8
Uniden UBC92XLT / Quansheng K5 8 Screens
Uniden UBC92XLT / Quansheng K5 8 Screens side by side. I do love the deep orange screen on the Uniden. But also really like the screen on the Quansheng. Not just the colour, but also how much it has going on. It's so full of info. Anyway, this was just a quick screen comparison post.
I will add. I like the Quansheng better than the Uniden. It's easier to use [the Uniden has some annoying navigation features] and it has buttons that light up. Many of my older scanners do not have this. And I am someone who uses scanners in the dark a lot. So the Quansheng has been great for that. Catch me in a few days sir major.
Realistic Pro-37 FAULTY CHANNEL MEMORY
Realistic Pro-37 Scanner Airband Test
Realistic Pro-37 Scanner Airband Test video UK [video below]. Good old school scanner receiver with a decent frequency range. It can pick up airband really well with the stock antenna. It's also got the 800 Mhz - 900 Mhz frequencies [806 - 960 Mhz]. A cool feature this radio has that you don't see on many scanners these days is a scanning speed button. Press the button and it can go from slow scan to fast scan. This works with both channel scanning [programmed frequencies] and manual scanning frequencies. 200 channels. Manufactured in Japan [for Intertan / Tandy].
Uniden BC80XLT 50 Channel Scanner
Recently got this Uniden Bearcat BC80XLT 50 Channel Scanner in a "turns on but is in untested" condition. It was cheap so I thought why not. First off, when I got it the seller was right - it does turn on. But the keypad was completely unresponsive. No buttons worked at all. He failed to mention that part. But to be fair, I think he was genuinely clueless when it came to scanners.
So I took it apart, cleaned it and put it back together. Then it wouldn't even switch on anymore. Me and my fixing skills! Terrible. So I left it a few days and took it apart again. Did a bit more cleaning, put it all back together again, and this time it did power up. And the keypad worked perfectly.
Realistic PRO-26 Clicking / Buzzing [Video]
I've got this Realistic PRO-26 [not this one - another one] that suffers from a constant clicking / buzzing noise. It's there as soon as the scanner is turned on, and only stopped when its turned off. The radio does seem to stop on known frequencies but nothing can be heard other than the clicking noise. I really want to fix it. I've seen this problem talked about in a few places online, with a few potential fixes suggested.
My PRO-26 was dirty as hell and looked like some sort of liquid had been spilt on the top on and around the volume / squelch and earphone jack. So I think some of that liquid could have went down the earphone jack hole and messed things up. I have opened the radio up but could not see any obvious damage.
GRE PSR 255 Beaten By ICOM IC-R6
Well, I'm always praising my old GRE PSR 255 hand held scanner, and talking about how it can pick up lots of signals and keep up with all the up-to-date scanners I pit it against. Well, it's over. While it is still a great scanner, It's been beaten to bits by the tiny ICOM IC-R6. What a scanner the R6 is. It's small, funnily small. But its powerful.
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