Last weekend I learnt something new about a piece of equipment I have had for a number of years now, the Icom IC-R3. One of my favourite achievements over the years has long been “teaching old equipment new tricks”. For example, in the old days I discovered that my Kenwood TH-75E could be expanded to allow some ‘out of band’ reception from the 2 metre and 70 centimetre amateur bands. Although the need has diminished over time since amateur transceivers nowadays come with expanded receiving coverage as standard.

The Misumi WCS-99XII-M video scanner tuned to a domestic video sender on 2412 MHz, within the 2.4GHz licence exempt ISM band. Other finds have included wireless CCTV cameras, amateur television signals and even an illegal wireless camera on 1040 MHz in the aeronautical transponder band!

This review of the Musumi WCS-99XII-M video scanner was kindly supplied by David Norris, G7VDI.

I bought this scanner with ATV on the 23cm and 13cm  (1240 to 1325 and 2310 to 2450 MHZ) amateur bands very much in mind. It handles PAL and NTSC signals, which are frequency modulated. (Secam signals are not supported).