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Originally Posted by AlabamaRS
look up the company in the FCC database?
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I dunno,
Alabama. I'm not sure the FCC Database is going to be much good when we are talking SOUTH AFRICA!
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Originally Posted by gavinminter
Greetings from the Southern Tip of the world, South Africa!!
I'm a COMPLETE novice, so PLEASE bear with me.
Our commercial fishing fleet operates with trunking radio's. The vast majority have Kenwood TK-980/981 radios. ( Kenwood - TK-980-981 ) The rest use the older KAVICOMM trunk radios, which are basically radios that the trucking industry use.
I've got absolutely no idea whether they use analogue or digital or what frequencies they use.
I'm looking at buying a scanner, so that i can hear all the fishing action, as i live at the waters edge. Most boats will operate between 10 to 20miles or so from land.
What scanner would you suggest?
Thanx
Gavin |
Welcome to the RR.com Forums,
gavinminter! That is pretty big step to ask for help in the US from South Africa.
Everyone will have their own personal favorites, but I would suggest the GRE high end scanners such as the PSR-500 (handheld) or PSR-600 (desk/mobile). The reason I say that is both of these models are digital capable, have terrific customer service backup, and the USB cable simply plugs into the scanner. That USB cable could help you because it would also can allow you to use a program like UniTrunker and "sniff" the airwaves for all kinds of new and possibly exciting frequencies without doing any "surgery" to the radio itself.
Because of your unique location, I urge you to return to your
User CP (the left side of the second blue bar from the top of any page if you are logged in) and edit your profile to include your location as you were requested to do in the material e-mailed to you when you registered. Once you fill in your location it will automatically show in each of your posts. You will be asked over and over again what it is so fill it in now and be done with it.