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Designing and using radio systems that involve battery power sources

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Does scanning take much more battery than listening on one channel?

I have a couple of HTs with channel scanning features. I imagine setting the radio to scan mode takes more power than just listening to a single channel, but what rough order of magnitude? Will I lose 1%, 10% or 50% of my battery life? Are some…
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