Robert Davies has posted the following comment:
'Well..... I have since bought a Uniden UBC3500XLT (rearrange the following words into a common phrase or saying "money" "than" "sense" "more"). It's even better than the BR330T, initial tests suggest from this location that it is more sensitive on vhf and uhf air than the BR330T, and I always thought *that* was pretty handy ;-) -Rob'
That's interesting Rob, you would think it would essentially have the same 'internals'. I presume your testing them both alongside each other on the same antenna setup etc.
I'd be interested to know if you think the performance increase is worth buying a UBC3500XLT even if like ourselves you already have a BR330T?
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Hello Mark (and everyone else!)
If you own a 330T is it worth getting a 3500?
From a civ air point of view, the performance variations between the two scanners are at their smallest in this part of the radio band.
e.g. If a signal comes in scratchy with one flickering bar on the sig meter on the 330T, the same signal on the 3500 will be solid one bar with a possible flicker into two bars. The listening comparisons also bear this out.
The further you move away from vhf air (in either direction) the performance variations can be as much as two solid bars on the sig meter in favour of the 3500 (The difference between unreadable and loud and clear in some cases..)
The 3500 has three different selectable bandplans (3 being the most uk centric) It also has Close Call Do Not Disturb - no more dropouts in audio every two-ish seconds with CC DND enabled - downside = CC DND only works when you are not actively receiving a transmission - whereupon if that's an issue revert to the CC Pri mode which is the same as the 330T's sole CC mode.
There are more gaps in the 3500's coverage, but I haven't found them yet from a monitoring point of view.
If you *don't* already own a 330T buy a 3500 immediately, it's an ABSOLUTE bargain for the price v features - Since the 3500 arrived I haven't used my AOR AR8200MkIII (which is 2.5 times the price of the 3500) Only buy an 8200 if you need the frequency extremes that it covers - The 3500 is better for all the rest.
If you *do* already own a 330T find a fellow local enthusiast to compare the 330T against their 3500... or maybe not... it may just be expensive.
Just my personal findings and opinions....
Your mileage may vary....
Don't run with scissors...
etc etc etc
In my case having bought the 3500 I don't regret having done so :-)
btw... Alternative review of the 3500 here:
http://www.ukmidlandscanner.co.uk/uni3500.htm
btw again as I write this the best 3500 price seems to be with Nevada on ebay @ 150ukp with *free* p&p - other vendors charge the same basic price plus 6 or 7 quid p&p.
-Rob
ro are there any gaps in the frequencys
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