Any ham radio that scans, whether FT-60 or Baofengs, in my opinion, are very poor scanners. ?With newer Public Safety communications, a lot of them are digital and trunking systems. ?Ham radios do not do tracking, and very few can do digital. ?You listening will be very limited. ?I think you are much better off buying a real scanner, and use your other radios for talking on. ?The FT-60 can scan lots of frequencies, more than most other radios, but it is still very limited in a lot of other ways.
Jardy Dawson
WA7JRD Ham Radio
We keep trying to interfere with elections, but pesky moose and squirrel keep interfering!
the other day, I was at a swap meet in SoCal and was about ready to plop $60 down on a scanner when it occurred to me that I already had a pretty decent scanner in my FT-60R. So I thought I'd ping the group for input and ideas on how any of you incorporated your rig in this manner. Groups comes to mind.
