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Technical Topics => Equipment => Topic started by: NJQA on September 09, 2019, 0955 UTC

Title: New AOR receiver
Post by: NJQA on September 09, 2019, 0955 UTC: New AOR receiver announced for scanning the aircraft bands. I expect that it won’t be cheap. I wonder what market they are targeting this for?

https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/scanners/1740.html
Title: Re: New AOR receiver
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on September 09, 2019, 1026 UTC: Quote from: NJQA on September 09, 2019, 0955 UTC
New AOR receiver announced for scanning the aircraft bands. I expect that it won’t be cheap. I wonder what market they are targeting this for?

Hobbyists who need one of each radio model? :)
Title: Re: New AOR receiver
Post by: Josh on September 09, 2019, 2044 UTC: wipes drool off kb
Title: Re: New AOR receiver
Post by: NJQA on September 10, 2019, 0856 UTC: Yeah, I want one too. I hope the price is reasonable.
Title: Re: New AOR receiver
Post by: myteaquinn on September 10, 2019, 2111 UTC: Well I guess I can work an extra month (gulp, or two) before I retire next year.
Title: Re: New AOR receiver
Post by: Ray Lalleu on September 12, 2019, 2120 UTC: Looks like a simplified version of the AR-DV1,
so it must be priced lower.
Title: Re: New AOR receiver
Post by: NJQA on September 15, 2019, 1129 UTC: Video with a little more info. They say it can search the entire VHF air band in less than 1 second.

https://youtu.be/Oh4taFRAL-Q
Title: Re: New AOR receiver
Post by: Josh on September 15, 2019, 1741 UTC: Ok now I can justify it when it can do 4 channels at a time compared to the 9000XLT sitting here.
Title: Re: New AOR receiver
Post by: pinto vortando on September 15, 2019, 2257 UTC: Hmmm, only one antenna input, would be nice to have one each for VHF air, UHF air, and FM.
The fact that it can receive FM broadcast is somewhat worrisome... hopefully there is adequate filtering
to prevent FM desense. Anyway, would the NOAA WX freqs have been a more useful addition than the FM band ???
(or maybe neither one, sometimes less is more).
Otherwise, really looking forward to the introduction of this receiver... 4 VFOs and one second to scan the
whole VHF band, wow !
Title: Re: New AOR receiver
Post by: RobRich on September 16, 2019, 0430 UTC: Perhaps the listing should indicate broadcast FM trap filter not included. ;)

I agree about WFM for BCB. It seems like more of an afterthought. I suspect a decently skirted filter or two would take care of desensing concerns; assuming any analog filtering is implemented. ??

NFM support for NOAA and even VHF marine mobile might be more useful IMO. I could imagine those offering more appeal to airband enthusiasts than FM radio.

Might we assume the display as currently presented is for "illustration purposes only?" Admittedly I do not follow much above HF, but I am thinking 208.6MHz probably is very low-power FM or digital for wireless mics and similar instead of an airband allocation.
Title: Re: New AOR receiver
Post by: Looking-Glass on September 22, 2019, 0015 UTC: Looks impressive, however, will wait for some professional to do a full review on its performance first and see what the price ticket dictates.

Would have been more appealing to me with general coverage reception on VHF rather than segmented bands. ;D