alt.radio.scanner #8024 (21 more) [1] From: gwoho@ucrmath.ucr.edu (gwoho liu) Subject: Here is a Bearcat 175xl mod. Date: Wed Aug 18 03:19:17 EDT 1993 Organization: University of California, Riverside Lines: 14 I discovered a couple of modifications for Bearcat 175xl. On the CPU board there are 4 solder pads next to the CPU. Shorting two of them turns it into a 20 channel scanner (from 16 channel). Shorting the other two removes 29-54 and adds 66-82. I can program 66-88, but it will not receive 82-88. But it receives 66-82 as well as my 2006. I want to know however--how can I make it receive wideband? I see that there is this chip into which it seems a FM signal goes and and audio signal comes out. It is a Motorola mc3359p. What is it? Is it doing what it seems to be doing? How can I make it work more wide-band like? I've tried adjusting values of all kinds of things around it with no success. gwoho liu.