I use my R8500 for just the purpose you describe because it's not made to be a scanner even though it has scanning capabilities. The R8500 can dig out weak voice channels that I can't hear with my scanners - primarily due to the APF (Audio Peak Filter) which can tune out the noise and static on a freq. I also recently bought one of the new Uniden 996T scanners, owned it a couple of weeks, became disapointed and sold it. I originally traded up from the 780 to the 785 for the extra channels and the digital capabilities, found the 785 to be a better receiver so dumped my 780s and now own five of the 785D Unidens. I compare everything these days to the Uniden 785D which I've always thought was the best MilAir scanner ever made. The R8500 is the most sensitive and selective radio I've ever used for MilAir listening. Just my two cents on the Icom R8500 versus other radios.
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