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>My Beofeng will scan and hold for a few seconds and you can hit a button to cancel the scanning if you like what you hear. I was wondering if your rig could monitor multiple frequencies and jump to whatever is active.
https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-016159
Linked above is my scanner. Its first and foremost a scanner, and that's where its best at. So all radios have a scan function, but dedicated scanners are able to cycle through frequencies at a much higher rate, and most have multiple modes they function in. Ham Radio HT's function in the same way, they tune to a frequency, listen for some kind of modulated signal for a preset time, then move to the next freq if there isn't one. As far a listening to multiple frequencies, there's only one handheld that I'm aware of that has dual receive.
https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=71-004498
But again, you're only limited to two, because that's how many receivers it has.
>Tone codes would probably be helpful for that. My radio can scan for them, but it's too much hassle to do it at the track.
Yes, the jackhammer-truck noise is annoying. They do change them after the spotter guide is published, and its a struggle for my scanner to cycle through all the subaudible tone possibilities before the transmission ends. It also doesn't automatically save them once they're found.
>My problem is that at IndyCar and NASCAR I'm listening to the race on the HAM frequencies. At IMSA races, I have an additional FM radio plugged into an auxiliary jack. I went a bit nuts and bought two so I can also talk to my freind and we can find each other super easily. People also think we are working the race and I even got accused of spotting for Corvette at the Ford hospitality suite, kek.
That's fucking hilarious, I hope it was all in good humor. My next purchase aside from new lawn/camp chairs will be headsets with boom mics that accept the 3.5mm jack so I can talk to my gf dyring the race. 1/2
