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General FAQs Here's a great set of FAQs written by Bob Parnass, AJ9S: Introduction to Scanning SCANNER RADIO REVIEW BRIEFS HOW DO YOU FIND THESE SCANNER FREQUENCIES? BUYING A USED SCANNER RADIO IMPROVE THE SQUELCH IN YOUR MONITOR RECEIVER REPAIR TIPS: BEARCAT SCANNER RADIOS REPAIR TIPS: RADIO SHACK SCANNER RADIOS Here's F. Barry Mulligan's Frequently Asked Frequencies Here's a link to KB8PFF's Frequently Asked Frequencies Here's a link to Jim Fordyce's Frequently Asked Frequencies Thanks to Todd Sherman, here's a great resource on staying legal when monitoring in the US Need a reference to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) (aka US Code Title 18 Part I Chapter 119)? Need a reference to the Communications Act of 1934 (aka US Code Title 47 Chapter 5 Subchapter VI Section 605)? UK listeners have their own list of do's & dont's Interested in amateur radio? Then be sure to take a look at John D. Seney's FAQ. Be patient as it is quite large Want to know more about ACARS decoding Trunking Radio Support The Trunked Radio Systems User's Page is one of the best for IDing systems and FAQs Here's Uniden's TrunkTracker site Here's Radio Shack's TrunkScanner site There's a nice set of mailing lists at the QTH server Those of us in the Southeast US can make use of this trunked radio information page Check out National Communications' Fleetcall page Find out more about Motorola systems with this FAQ For interactive posting, try the Trunked Radio Forum For radio software, look to my Software page and the listings for ETRUNK, FreeTrackers, PC895, Radio Manager, Radio Manager Mini 32, SCANCAT, Scanner Master, Scan*Star, Trunker & TrunkTrac Radio Photo Galleries Brett Miller, N7OLQ Dan Browning, KD4LYP Radio Modifications My local page KC5KTO's mod page QRZ Radio Modifications Modification kits Orange Book of Scanner "Repair" Radio Shack scanner mods Radio modifications Oakland University repository Univ at Buffalo repository KD4IMU downloads PROgramit interface G/Wiz boards from the Ham Station, Scanner Master Terrence Brennan Add 0-30MHz SW reception to many scanners using the Scan/Plus from Scanner Master Frequency Bandplans Here's the Strong Signals Bandplan page Here's Ergin Guney's great US Frequency Bandplan Here's a local copy of the Oakland US Frequency Bandplan Here's a good US Frequency Bandplan by Bill McFadden The National Telecommunications And Information Administration (NTIA), Office of Spectrum Management (OSM) produces a color wall chart showing the frequency allocations for the United States. You can get an idea of what it is like by looking at my shack computer picture. If you're interested in getting one, stop by the OSM web site. Grove Enterprises also carries it as part number 'CHT 1'. The NTIA also keeps their own set of US and international allocation tables: Below 27.5 MHz 27.5 MHz - 10 GHz Above 10 GHz 137 MHz - 10 GHz Summary Here's the Official UK Radio Comm Allocations For a more detailed breakdown, UK listeners can try the UK Allocations page Those "down under" can try Australia here and New Zealand here For those listeners in Canada, try this page For those listeners in Denmark, try this page For those listeners in Sweden, try this page For those listeners in France, try this page, or this page For those listeners in Eastern Europe, try this page For those listeners in Spain, try this page Scanner Mailing Lists Peter Laws' SCAN-L list is very popular QTH.NET maintains a large number of lists, such as ACARS, AOR, Antennas, FedCom, Icom, MilCom, PCR-1000, Pro2006, Programit, Scanner, TrunkCom, Uniden, Winradio, and Yupiteru eGroups maintains a large selection as well. Look under 'Join a group', then 'Recreation', then 'Amateur Radio', then 'Scanners'. Some of the more interesting are 4phun-Scanning, AR8200, Ham4sale, Scanning, Trunker, as well as many regional and country lists Those of you in Europe have seen the Euro Scanner List evolve into the Radio Scanning Web Unknown Frequency? Here's my FCC Frequency Database page to help give an overview of the frequency databases out there for US and Canadian listeners Check out the FCC's latest frequency lookup webpage For more low-down on who offers FCC data, try Bill McFadden's FCC License Data Sources UK listener's might want to try this site Signal Identification Lindsay C. Blanton's Digital Sounds Jason Berri's Digital Sounds Gary Hahn's Digital Modes Internet-based Monitoring Set up to share scanner audio in conjunction with chat room discussions, Jon Rice, KC8FMR, has set up the iScan pages at Yahoo with "rooms" dedicated to general (police, fire & EMS), aircraft, railroad, marine and military listening! Radio-On The Internet has HUNDREDS of links to public safety, FM, TV and shortwave broadcast stations APB Online - large metro police Large metro public safety agencies Live ATC Audio Shortwave Broadcasters Online Web Receivers Trainorders World Radio Network World Internet Radio Auto Racing Incident Page Network pages you when major events happen in your area Shortwave (HF) Resources Dave's Radio Receiver Page Internet Guide To International Broadcasters DXing.com WWW Shortwave Listening Guide Rod Dinkins', AC6V, shortwave info Thorsten Koch's Internet Guide to International Broadcasters John Lloyd's, KE4UTX, collection of USENET SW radio reviews TransAtlantic HF aeronautical info DXer.Com TRS Consultants Hot Links Radio Netherlands HF receiver shopping list Scanner/Receiver Manufacturers Alinco USA Alinco Germany AOR Germany AOR Japan AOR UK AOR USA Electra Corp General Research of Electronics (GRE) iCOM America iCOM Japan iCOM Sweden IDA Inc. Optoelectronics Radio Shack Standard Tandy UK Uniden WiNRADiO Communications Yaesu Yaesu Japan Yaesu UK Yaesu USA Yupiteru Industries

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