I’ll make it short, but hardly sweet.
1. Assuming you already have a conventional system created, it takes a minimum of six button presses (and one or more rotations of the knob, PLUS entering the frequency, in order to store a single damned frequency in a system.
If you don’t already have a system created, it takes much longer
2. Its search speed and scan speed are incredibly slow
3. It’s sensitivity on any band can’t hold a candle to a PSR-500/600, PRO-106/19, or even a 996/396.
4. Given its lack of sensitivity, you would figure it would be much less prone to overload / images. Incorrect to the Nth degree. I suffer VHF overload more on this than I do on either a PSR-500 or a PRO-197, and both of those are significantly more sensitive
5. It doesn’t know how to zero in on the correct frequency in a search. For instance, if I scan VHF-HI, I know of 10 frequencies off the top of my head in which it will not stop dead-on
6. It’s display color sucks – there is not enough contrast on the best of days between the backlight and the text color.
7. Not enough audio output
8. You must have a serial interface or you’ll need to get a USB-to-serial adaptor. BS
I really have nothing good to say at all about this scanner. It’s a royal piece of shit