Scanner School - Everything you wanted to know about the Scanner Radio Hobby

181 - 10 Ways to Repurpose Your Analog Scanner


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Let's talk about 10 ways that you can use your old analog radio in today's digital scanning environment

What You Need To Know

  • Marine monitoring is a built in search range on many analog scanners
  • Aircraft monitoring can be done worldwide
  • Railroad is moving to NXDN here in the US, but most of RR is still analog only.
  • Weather Alert Standby is a feature in many newer analog scanners
  • SKYWARN traffic is typically on amateur radio analog repeaters.
  • Fire Tone Out is another feature found in many analog scanners.
  • News and media frequencies are very busy and you can hear interesting transmission on those frequency ranges.
  • Shopping malls and departmental store use FRS radios that are analog.
  • Put your old analog scanner in search mode, put it into close call mode, and see what is close to you or what is around you.
  • You can tap into discriminated baseband audio or raw audio or unprocessed or unfiltered audio of the board of your scanner.

All session notes with links to the items we talked about can be found on our website at https://www.scannerschool.com/session181

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