travel

Recently the wife keeps mentioning Niagra Falls, which likely means we will have to deal with that boarder crossing in the future. We would be traveling in her car, which has a commercial radio(s) for ham and GMRS, as well as a permanently mounted SDS200. We currently don't have any local...

Hello Fellow Hams and Radio Enthisiasts, BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT (BLUF) LINK: Traveling Ham Mobile Radio: U.S. Ham Repeaters Common Frequencies - Google Drive Did you know that there are approximately 18,793 2M & 70CM Band repeaters in the U.S., which use only 1,303 frequencies? Imagine if you...

I might be going to down town Washington DC soon and I am thinking about bringing my BCD396xt. (1) From the RadioReference database I can see a lot of different things to listen to, so I am wondering what some good/interesting frequencies might be to listen to. Any suggestions? (2) Are there...

So I'm in a dilemma, I am a proud owner of the homepatrol-1 for 2 years but with systems migrating to P25 phase 2 across the country, I want to sell my HP-1 and buy either a HP-2 or bCd436HP for my travel needs. Will be mostly monitoring in my hotel room and a little in the car (I like my road...

Hey all, long time since i posted but I plan on taking a trip either up to the mountains or down to the coast soon but I know everyone is on VIPER but is there any agencies who are using 800mhz analog but is not on a trunking system that i can use my PRO2066 to listen to? Im only listening to...

I've had my scanner for a few years and it has occupied a spot on my kitchen counter faithfully. This year, I thought it might be nice to take it on our summer adventure into The western provinces and listen to some of the 'action' along the way. My question is: do those of you that already...

I was wondering if anyone out here knows of any DXpeditions coming up? I've never been on one, but I've always wanted to go on one. Being that I have nothing going on right now except the prospect of a temp tech job that is not a sure thing, I'm ready to travel.

I normally prefer to travel by train or sometimes bus but while checking out flights I found a flight from Tampa to San Francisco for only $89.00 and could not pass it up. When I travel I normally take my scanner along for the trip. I have had no problems with taking it on board the trains and...