Technomate TM-5500 (and family) - and low SR (sub 1000)

Manikm909

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Hi, does anyone know if the TM-5500, 5302, or 5402 M3 range of receivers - handle low SR's - i.e below 1000...

Either on manual scan or blind scan

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The 5402 is fixed (firmware ) to 1MS/s, but it does have one of the more sensitive tuners for anything above that.

I was hoping to look for a secret menu using a client's machine before the lockdown, to see if it could work at a lower SR (which I doubt), but global events stepped in.

The equipment I worked with from the late 90s onwards sed physical filtering (saw) for their narrow/wide switching (SCPC/MCPS) but zero IF/baseband opened up a raft of other methods for progressing beyond the curve.
 
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