The communications equipment may include a multi-band receiver/scanner, a citizens band (CB) radio, portable "walkie-talkies" with rechargeable batteries, and a portable battery-powered television.

A multiband receiver may contain tap points along the loop winding in order to tune the loop antenna at widely different frequencies.

Leeming turned the dial of his multiband receiver from T back to F. On the screens five glowing dots swiftly angled away from the main body of the escort.

Some modern multiband receivers actually convert lower frequency bands first to a much higher frequency (VHF) after which a second mixer with a tunable local oscillator and a second IF stage process the signal as above.