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

Trunked Radio Systems are not difficult to understand one you know how they work. In this session of Scanner School, we talk about the basics of how Trunking works and will be focusing on specific trunk systems in the upcoming episodes.

Welcome to Scanner School Session 6 (www.scannerschool.com/session6). We review 3 handheld and 3 desktop scanners that you can use now with what you have learned in Scanner School Sessions 2 - 5.

Today we talk about the more common analog modulation methods, AM, SSB (LSB & USB), FM, NFM, and WFB (WBFM). Session notes are at https://www.scannerschool.com/session5

We break down the differences between each and give examples of when each one might be used to communicate. Session notes are at https://www.scannerschool.com/session4

In Session 3, we discuss the differences between Carrier Squelch, Tone Squelch, Digital Tone Squelch, and what is a NAC.

Show notes can be found at https://www.scannerschool.com/session3

In this session we talk about Frequencies and how we measure them in Hertz.

Welcome to the first session of Scanner School, a podcast by Phil Lichtenberger, W2LIE. In this episode, I'll introduce myself and talk about the goals of Scanner School and what you can expect in future episodes.