--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 154 SCANNERS Ref: E5B00000 Date: 04/28/97 From: DON DECHAINE Time: 06:39pm \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: Scanner Adjustment Hi, I've got a Bearcat hand held scanner (Model BC 100XLT) and was wondering if anyone knows how to widen the receiving band to 900Mhz. Or do you know of a manual that would help me out. Thanks, Don --- * SLMR 2.0 * This tagline is umop apisdn --- InterEcho 1.18 * Origin: IC_STARS BBS * Madawaska,ME USA* 207-728-6427 (1:326/438) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 154 SCANNERS Ref: E5B00001 Date: 05/05/97 From: BOBBIE BEERS Time: 09:39pm \/To: CHARLES HUNTER (Read 2 times) Subj: Transceiver -=> Quoting Charles Hunter to Bobbie Beers <=- CH> Yes, I've rode shotgun with the FCC when they went tracking CH> transmitters like that. Had one that was a base transmitting music CH> with so much interference it was taking the Police Base Station out CH> of commission. As I recall the guy was feeding a 12ax7 strip CH> transmitter into a 75 or 300 ohm load. We had to go back to his CH> house three times!!!!!!! Hi Charles, Three times!!!!!!!!!!! Good grief! Some people never learn! Bobbie ... <<<< ScanRadio Co-Moderator BobbieB1@aol.com >>>> --- Blue Wave/386 v2.30 * Origin: Smoke Signals * 972-562-6012 * McKinney, TX (1:124/6104) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 154 SCANNERS Ref: E5B00002 Date: 05/05/97 From: BOBBIE BEERS Time: 09:40pm \/To: ANDREW NAYLOR (Read 2 times) Subj: Transceiver -=> Quoting Andrew Naylor to Bobbie Beers <=- AN> Actually you can transmit on any freq as long as you don't broadcast AN> over state lines. It's a little known fact. :) AN> -ANDREW NAYLOR KB9IZK- (Tech Plus) (Age 17) <>< Andrew, The fact is so little known because it is illegal to transmit outside the approved frequencies for a particular radio. I think you'd better go back and read the book. 73 Bobbie, KB5RPI ... <<<< ScanRadio Co-Moderator BobbieB1@aol.com >>>> --- Blue Wave/386 v2.30 * Origin: Smoke Signals * 972-562-6012 * McKinney, TX (1:124/6104) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 154 SCANNERS Ref: E5B00003 Date: 05/03/97 From: CHUCK MANDUS Time: 03:05pm \/To: BILL CLARK (Read 2 times) Subj: radio Frequencies Bill, BC>Can anyone help. I'm new to this echo and I am wondering if differnt BC>frequencies are used in different countrys. I know the MArine and ircraft BC>the same worldwide. Yeah, it differs throughout the world. Here in the Western Hemisphere, we use 29.660 to 54 MHz, as our VHF-Lo band. In Europe, your VHF-Lo is from 66 - 88 MHz. It seems like your VHF-Hi (136 - 174 MHz) and UHF-Lo/Hi (400 - 512 MHz) are pretty much the same as ours although you might have different services there. Our allocations are not cut and dried like yours seems to be. Roughly our VHF-Lo is used by our Armed Forces, the various State Police Depts, Fire Departments, Road Departments, some medical, and the Federal Gov't along with various private businesses. I need to do some checking to provide exact breakdowns. VHF-Lo is used here for longer distance communications such as a big township, state police, American Indian Reservations, and so on which cover bigger areas. VHF-Hi and especially UHF-Lo/Hi are for more local concerns. Regional state police dispatchers and local police/fire/medical uses the 154 - 156 MHz and the 159 - 160 MHz areas. In the UHF and 800 MHz area, you find your big city police, fire, and medical departments. Like I receive Pittsburgh Police and Fire in the 453 MHz area and Pittsburgh Medical in the 462 - 463 MHz area. I know in your part of the world, you do use the 30 - 54 MHz bands but they seem to be mostly government and military. I have a 1989 list of some UK freqs in the 29 - 88 MHz band. BC>Also can anyone tell me the legal position of scanners in various countrys BC>including the UK Well, in our country, you cannot divulge what you hear to a third party, use a scanner to help commit a crime, or profit from what you hear. A third party is a person who you tell what you heard without him or her being with you. Very rarely these laws are enforced unless you use them to commit crimes or otherwise be a nuisance. We cannot listen to cellular phones over here in the U.S. either so almost all scanners have the 824 - 849 and 869 - 894 MHz segments locked out. Some scanners can be modified to receive them. Again, these are virtually unenforceable, they exist only to make it look good to the cellphone companies so they can claim "privacy." The cellphone bands used to cover our UHF-TV channels 70 - 83 so when they first came out, I could have used my aunt's 1963 RCA Vistacolor TV to receive them. B-) BC>I am a taxi driver in Barrow In furness in England and our frequencies are a BC>follows. Our taxis use the 152 MHz for base and 157 MHz for mobiles. I think they are duplex or semi-duplex. BC>Occasionally especially on hot sunny days we pick up interference from other BC>users of these frequencies. I think one is in Lancaster/Morecambe/Blackpool BC>area and the other is in Liverpool or North wales. That happens. I was in the Canton/Akron area of Ohio on my way home to the Pittsburgh area from my high school buddy's house and I managed to pick up our local (Moon Township) police om 460.050 MHz al the way in Canton, OH whic is roughly 100 miles away or so. It was a hot and muggy night, resulting for a day that soared to the mid to high 90's (Fahrenheit). Probably what you and I have experienced was a temperature inversion that can affect VHF/UHF signals and send them hundreds of miles away. Chuck, just sharing some ideas and experiences in scanning.... DE KA3WRW --- * SLMR 2.0 * CLINTON = Compulsive Liar Is Nation's Top Official Now. * Origin: Maltese Alien * Been there! Done that! * (412) 279-9561 (1:129/41) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 154 SCANNERS Ref: E5B00004 Date: 05/03/97 From: ANDREW NAYLOR Time: 01:49pm \/To: BOBBIE BEERS (Read 2 times) Subj: Transceiver BB>You are sooo right! If you are a ham and have the "extras" it is legal to BB>listen, but no where is it legal to transmit on them, since they are not BB>type accepted within the guidelines of commercial use. Actually you can transmit on any freq as long as you don't broadcast over state lines. It's a little known fact. :) -ANDREW NAYLOR KB9IZK- (Tech Plus) (Age 17) <>< Internet Address: CHANGED! No new one yet. :) *** PGP Pl Ky vll *** --- SLMR 2.1a Never insult 7 men when you're packing a 6-shooter. * Origin: * }{ead Games * 765-642-4312 * Anderson IN * (1:2255/90) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 154 SCANNERS Ref: E5B00005 Date: 05/05/97 From: BUD JAMISON Time: 04:26am \/To: SCOTT CHRISTENSEN (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: RE: Uniden Trunk Tracker SC> I don't recall if it will do Type II trunking (which requires less SC> information), but for Type I you need (or should need): the (up to 5) syste SC> control channels, the fleet and the talkgroup. You realize that for $150 m SC> than the scanner you can get a full Maxtrac 800 2-way radio? Of SC> course, you are going to need the same info to program it. Maxtracs don't do type II trunking, and that's what most Public Service agencies are using. Spectras, STX and MTXs are what's common for type 2, and it costs a bunch to program them. And if you use the 'media' package in a place like San Diego, you do NOT get anything but the dispatch freqs. With the TT, you can get ALL the groups, even if they add some down the line. I have a Spectra and an STX, but I'll get a 235 also, for the special stuff. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: 9-1-1 FF's LEO's OSHA COMMS (619) 669-0385 (1:202/911) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 154 SCANNERS Ref: E5B00006 Date: 04/19/97 From: NATHAN BOLLINGER Time: 04:20pm \/To: TONY SZABLOWSKI (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: frequency counter >-> I've got one of those Radio Shack freq counters and I have to tell >-> you, I've never had much luck using it find unknown frequencies. I >-> don't know whether it just lacks the needed sensitivity, or if I'm >-> not being a very good "snoop." Granted, I do like the counter. It >-> works very well and a test counter and it's relatively cheap. But I >-> think if you're wanting one for "snooping," you'd probably be better >-> off spending a little more money and getting one of the units from >-> Optoelectronics. > >From what I gathered when looking for a freq counter, the Radshacks are >garbage. Very low sensitivity. You have to be practically standing >right next to a transmitter to get something. Well, I wouldn't call it "garbage," but you're right; they aren't very sensitive. But then, that might have been the way the RadShak engineers intended it. Like I said, it works very well as a "test bench" counter, and if you'll look in the catalog, you'll notice that it's listed with the test equipment, NOT with the scanners. --- SLMAIL v4.5a (#0226) * Origin: The Big Byte BBS 704-279-2295 (1:379/301) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 154 SCANNERS Ref: E5B00007 Date: 04/20/97 From: RICH WILLBANKS Time: 03:14pm \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: Cheek and stuff Anybody out there heard from Bill in a while? I've been waiting to hear what he's found out about the latest computer controlled scanner (WinScan). Remember: Freedom isn't Free! --- timEd-B11 * Origin: My BBS * Dover, TN * (1:379/301.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 154 SCANNERS Ref: E5B00008 Date: 04/27/97 From: RALPH MOWERY Time: 08:39am \/To: BILL TRACY (Read 2 times) Subj: Transceiver BT>I have a friend who has a transceiver scanner. Are these legal in BT>Massachusetts? BT>He is able to key in on the Police and when he drives into Burger King, BT>Wendy's or McDonalds he is able to key into their headset and place BT>his order. BT>Some cmpany does make these and where would one be able to make such a BT>purchase? I can't say about Mass. but it is NOT legal anywhere in the US to transmitt where you are not licensed to. If he is making a nusience of himself ,especially to the police, he could be in for a big fine if caught. There are several companies making ham radio transceivers that by cutting a wire inside or other minor modifications that will do this. It is not illegal to do this, but it is not legal to transmitt where you are not licensed. There are several frequencies near the ham bands that it is legal to transmitt with the proper license and that is one reason for the easy modificiation. --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Borderline! BBS Fido_Net Concord,N.C. (1:379/37.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 154 SCANNERS Ref: E5B00009 Date: 04/28/97 From: NATHAN BOLLINGER Time: 11:00am \/To: BILL TRACY (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Transceiver >I have a friend who has a transceiver scanner. Are these legal in >Massachusetts? > >He is able to key in on the Police and when he drives into Burger King, >Wendy's or McDonalds he is able to key into their headset and place >his order. > >Some cmpany does make these and where would one be able to make such a >purchase? > Sounds like he's got on of those 2-meter or 440MHz handie-talkies with "wide recieve" built in. Dunno about scanner laws in Massachusetts, but most everywhere else, they're pererfectly legal provided he has a valid amateur radio license and only transmits in the ham bands which his license class allows. It is NOT legal for him to use it to place an order at Wendy's or to report a crime on a police frequency. --- SLMAIL v4.5a (#0226) * Origin: The Big Byte BBS 704-279-2295 (1:379/301)