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I'm new to scanning and I have a question that may be very simple, but one which I have yet to find an answer to.

My scanner picks up frequencies that are five or six numbers with a . such as 155.000.

What is the difference between this and a frequency that has four numbers after the . such as 155.0010

Do they require different scanning equipment?

Thanks in advance!

:D WELLWELLCOME TO THE HOBIE, I DON'T THINK I can answer your question I don't know what type of scan ner you have their could be a glich in it their are a lot of freqs around 155.580 as in this one that is WA. state patrol maybe someelest will come up on your post!


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What type of scanner do you use?
I know my scanner will take frequencies like 154.070 but it will also take frequencies like 453.8375.

Nick

Learn and live the following.

1. Decimal system (Not the Dewey decimal system).
2. Frequency spacing (In order to maintain harmony a certain amount of distance is required).
3. Step (A cool feature found on your scanner).

Good luck

-Marcus
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I have a Radioshack Pro-83.

So maybe this is a better way to say what I am asking. A frequency listed as 152.0075 should be able to be picked up by my scanner, however I cannot for the life of me figure out how to put in anything more than 152.007. So maybe I'm missing something or maybe I'm just retarded, but some help from someone who knows more than me would be appreceated.

Thanks

152.0075 sounded like a goofy frequency to me but I did find companys licensed to it. I wasn't able to add 152.0075 to my Uniden BC250D it defaulted to 152.0100 instead. Who is on that freq that you want to listen to? You will probably do ok with just having 152.007 in your scanner.

But on a happy note, it doesn't sound like you are retarded.

I work at a small rural hospital and that is one of the frequencies we use. I'm on the trauma team and thought maybe with the scanner I could get a heads up of activity rather than just waiting for the phone to ring.

I'll play around more and see what I can come up with.

Interesting, SERS is licensed for 152.0075. Must be for the VHF paging system.

152.0075 and 152.0100 are pretty close. I think your scanner will pick it up since its not that much of a variance. Most channels have a bandwidth a little above and a little below the actual freq. You might be able to change the step. That might get your scanner directly on the actual freq your wanting. Depends on the scanner

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Picture radio channels or frequencies as lanes of a road or highway. The lanes of one road might be 25 feet wide and when you get on the freeway the lanes might change to 22.5 feet wide. Radio frequencies are "Spaced" apart from each other -- just like roads. On the VHF Low band ( 30 to 50 Mhz ) they are spaced 10 or 20 Khz apart and on VHF High band channels the channels might be spaced 15 Khz or 7.5 Khz apart. Not all frequencies are spaced the same. Some frequencies have been ADDED -- like 152.0075 -- for Hospital or EMS Paging. Depending on what scanner you use -- it might require you to round off the frequency -- in order to program it into the radio. 152.0075 might become 152.005 or 152.01 and on another radio it might be 152.008. MTM