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tonyclark
 Post subject: Fate of analog scanners
PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:50 am 
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What could the old scanners be used for if they can't be rebanded or get digital? There is going to be a lot of them, and there value would be low. Ham recieving?
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the Outlaw
PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:25 am 
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Maybe you can sell it to a hobbyist in an area not digital.
Fortunately I live in an area still using VHF analog. Yesterday I fired up a 1980's Uniden for awhile, worked like it is supposed to.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:20 am 
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kc7bur wrote:
Fortunately I live in an area still using VHF analog.

Me too, VHF & UHF but one day it may not be so. I hope it is not for a long time. South Alabama & Georgia pull them in too some. As places go digital people put their analog scanners up for sale.

Well not me I'm going "digital jahad" :chaingun: :starwars:
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Another good use for analog scanners. (I use a Pro-92 stricly for this)

I scan all the business and GMRS/FRS stuff in the UHF band. Works well. I have mine attached to an external UHF antenna.

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When I was stationed near Savannah, I thought the hobby would be limited due to lack of mountain top TX sites. In fact, the opposite was true.
I was catching VHF stations 100 miles away.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:18 am 
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PRESTONBJ wrote:
Another good use for analog scanners. (I use a Pro-92 stricly for this)

I scan all the business and GMRS/FRS stuff in the UHF band. Works well. I have mine attached to an external UHF antenna.


Got me thinking,(ouch) now my head hurts.
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They're good for d-taps.
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Ham radio. A lot of clubs around here have been drinking the Icom/ARRL kool-aid and switching their repeaters to D-STAR :puke:, but there are enough of us left who still run real radios and will remain using FM for a while. Aeronautical, marine band, and low-power business band stuff will stay analog FM for a while. Railroads will probably go digital at some point, but I suspect not for a while.

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kb1lkv wrote:
Ham radio. A lot of clubs around here have been drinking the Icom/ARRL kool-aid and switching their repeaters to D-STAR :puke:, but there are enough of us left who still run real radios and will remain using FM for a while. Aeronautical, marine band, and low-power business band stuff will stay analog FM for a while. Railroads will probably go digital at some point, but I suspect not for a while.


Your going to see ham radio work in both digital and analog I would say for the next 3 maybe 5 decades.

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tonyclark
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KE7JFF wrote:
kb1lkv wrote:
Ham radio. A lot of clubs around here have been drinking the Icom/ARRL kool-aid and switching their repeaters to D-STAR :puke:, but there are enough of us left who still run real radios and will remain using FM for a while. Aeronautical, marine band, and low-power business band stuff will stay analog FM for a while. Railroads will probably go digital at some point, but I suspect not for a while.


Your going to see ham radio work in both digital and analog I would say for the next 3 maybe 5 decades.

50 years from now radio's will be implanted in our heads. Bearcat scanner in your head. :lol:
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the Outlaw
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I'm kinda starting to 'reverse technology'.
Don't respond to text messaging. If it's important call me.
I'm thinking about subscribing to a local newspaper.

This is just like my house phone:
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kc7bur wrote:
I'm kinda starting to 'reverse technology'.
Don't respond to text messaging. If it's important call me.
I'm thinking about subscribing to a local newspaper.

This is just like my house phone:
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A couple of years ago I heard an OM on 2 meters say his goal was to go to
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kc7bur wrote:
This is just like my house phone:

I wanted to post this but it doesn't quite fit. But I will anyways:

http://www.patfleet.com/audio/touchtone.mp3
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tonyclark
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Atomic Taco wrote:
kc7bur wrote:
This is just like my house phone:

I wanted to post this but it doesn't quite fit. But I will anyways:

http://www.patfleet.com/audio/touchtone.mp3

:lol:
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the Outlaw
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I had an argument with that B****, but it was dark & I was drunk.

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