Gme rx1300

[bananaman]

gme rx 1300
does anyone have one or played with one and are they any good?

[Scannersplitterguy]

I'm wondering the same thing too.
They have a much wider freq. range than a similar model Uniden and 1300 memory locations.
Only feature lacking is SSB - essential for HF frequencies.

Anyone own one or used one?

[bananaman]

i went and got one and its not that great when i brought it the battery didnt charge so took it back now any time i pick something up theres a backround noise that nearly drowns out whats tring to be heard i hope someone can explain why this happens only on everything but radio stations like triple j and b105 i think it might be a trip back to the shop to get fixed again as its still under the 3 yr warranty . other than that its not to bad no gaps in the scanning range is great and being able to tune frequencys down to the last number is good

[Scannersplitterguy]

Not a good start with two problems....
How good is the battery life now?

[bananaman]

it gets a good 12hrs out of the battery but then takes nearly 15hrs to charge the stupid thing

[rochedalescan]

Should just take it back, maybe pay a little extra and get something like an icom

[bananaman]

I wouldnt mind but do they have gaps in the scanning like uniden?

[rochedalescan]

Looking on here http://www.icom-australia.com/products/ ... ic-r5.html it says that it has full frequency coverage (Full frequency coverage (0.150 MHz to 1309.995MHz)) Which I would think is no gaps

[Scannersplitterguy]

it gets a good 12hrs out of the battery but then takes nearly 15hrs to charge the stupid thing

Think I'll give it a miss, nothing worse than flat batteries and considering it doesn't use AA size, it's not really practical.
I hope GME is listening.....give it SSB and AA batteries and I'll snap one up.

[bananaman]

amen to that

[dags]

sounds like a heap of crap to me ,much much better scanners out there one would think and knows