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    NASCAR Scanners

    I rented the Racing Electronics scanner at the All Star Race and was impressed with the sound quality.

    I figure if I attend a couple races per year, it would pay to buy my own set.

    Does anyone know of another brand that is decent?

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    I had the same thought about buying one. A feature I really liked about the one I rented was I could punch in the number of the car I wanted to listen in on and it went right to it. I would imagine if you bought one pre-programmed, you should be good to go for the year, but would you have to have it re-programed each season? If so, who would do it?


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    I see that the Racing Electronics RE3000 are capable of "over the air"programming at the track.

    Or you can manually program them with the list of frequencies that are on the web.

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    I never knew NASCAR had channels you can tune in.

    My Baofeng Ham radio can pick up those channels.


    https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/NASCAR

    (Edit; not sure because of the current digital radio encryption)
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    Well that settles it. Time to start looking into scanners. That was my only reservation.


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    Read a site that said that the teams rarely change frequencies and that there were only half dozen changes every season anyway.

    One comment said that you can go to the Racing Electronics trailer at the track and for $10 or so, they'll program the changes for you. But with the 3000, it sounds like a breeze.

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    I'm leaning toward the Bearcat 125 with a Racing Electronics headset.

    https://amzn.to/3tdSDcW

    Would save about $200 over the RE 3000.

    They say it's easy to program with your computer.

    Still researching.

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    I'd miss the "car" button on the Racing Electronics version, but for the savings I think I could adjust. I found these headphones I could pair with it to save a little more as well.

    https://www.amazon.com/Race-Day-Elec...1&sr=1-17&th=1


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    Good point about the car button.

    Reading the directions, it shows that after it's programmed, you press the hold button, then press the channel number, then press hold again.

    The channel number can correspond to the car number. So the hold button works like the "car" button on the RE's.

    With the Alpha tagging, you can even enter the driver's name to be displayed in the screen.




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    I decided to go with the Bearcat 125 AT from Amazon. And a Racing Electronics headset.

    I downloaded a spreadsheet list of frequencies for Cup, Xfinity, and trucks. And a small program to interact with the scanner. I had to make a few edits for skipped car numbers, but it was all done in a spreadsheet and in the program.

    It has ten banks and each bank can store fifty frequencies. It also alpha tags, so the driver's name shows up.

    As for the "Car" button, you simply press the car number, then press hold and it switches to that channel.

    These pictures are from my scanner.

    Total cost, just over $200.





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