This AOR wide band scanning receiver is renowned for it's high standards of performance and range of facilities. Although offering a long list of facilities and operating modes, the receiver remains reasonably easy to operate. The display often provides ‘prompts' for selected operations such as a flashing "CH" to invite you to key in a new memory channel number. The receiver has an exceptionally wide frequency coverage from 500kHz to 600MHz then from 800MHz to 1300MHz (1.3GHz!!!). The modes available are AM, FM (narrow), FM (wide) and SSB (USB, LSB, CW) when using the Beat Frequency Oscillator (BFO). All available modes may be selected at any frequency within the receiver's coverage. Although carefully designed, this receiver (like all receivers) suffers from a degree of internal noises known as spurii. They are a product of the receivers circuity and do not represent a fault. All information such as frequency, mode, channel, etcetera is presented in an easy to see Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). The display is provided with a lamp to increase visibility. The aerial connection is of the standard BNC type allowing straight forward connection to almost any aerial. There is also a 20dB attenuator selectable from the front panel to increase versatility especially when listening to shortwave. There is a massive EEPROM storage (no batteries required) of 1000 memories held as 10 banks of 100 also there are 10 additional programmable search banks. Each memory will store frequency and mode, the search bands will also store the increment. Memories and search bands may be ‘locked out' for the days when you don’t want to listen to something you have previously programmed. In search mode, you may lock out up to 1000 continuously occupied frequencies (100 In each of the 10 search bands) so that the frequency is skipped when next scanned. Although the search bands are pre-programmed at the factory, they may be easily re programmed from the keypad by the user.