The AOR AR-8600 Mark II reflects AOR's ongoing commitment to improving its products and maintaining its leadership in designing and building high-end receivers

The AR8600 Mark II sets several new standards that make the receiver desirable to professional users and monitoring enthusiasts with new features such as expanded frequency coverage, an improved RF front end, better receive audio response, ability to accept a new video reception unit (currently undergoing development)

- Covers 100 KHz ~ 3 GHz. (Includes analog cellular frequencies for government agencies)

- Carries over the Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator (TCXO) that provides an ultra-stable frequency reference

- Receives wide, narrow and super-narrow FM, wide and narrow AM, upper and lower sideband and CW

- 1000 memory channels (20 banks X 50 channels each) with alphanumeric channel labels

- RS-232C port for computer control, with free control software available at the AOR web site

- The AR8600 Mark II can accommodate up to five optional cards that enhance certain functions. They are the Collins mechanical filter, CTCSS digital recording, tone eliminator, additional memory and the voice inverter module.

- New On/Off function for the dimmer of the unit 10.7 MHz IF output (that can be used with AOR's optional SDU-5500 spectrum display unit)