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Hi all, Recently, my father passed. We always stayed up late listing to the various scanners in surrounding cities of the local activity. So... This has been my mission... I can't figure out how he had IL (Starcom21) all on there and able to hear everything. I was wanting to program in...

Hi guys, hope someone can help here. We have a Yaesu FT60R that was dropped accidentally on a hard floor. It looked like it hit on the end with the knobs and antenna. Afterwards, the volume doesn't seem to be adjustable and is so low as to basically be inaudible. However, the unit power-on...

I picked up a bcd996p2 brand new a while back and I’ve been trying to figure out an issue any help would be appreciated. While scanning Howard county indiana it will randomly stop trunking and display NFM. It’s very hard to recreate because it does it randomly but won’t scan properly until I...

I have recently got an XTS2500 to use with the USFS on deployments as a personal radio but the FPP future was removed. How can I get that back? Current specs: XTS2500 FLASHcode: 540018-401488-6 Codeplug:0024 Firmware:R17.00.02 Feature set: Q574 H869 Q883 H04 Q947

I'm trying to mount my President McKinley radio in my 2019 Subaru Ascent. I'd like to mount it in the least destructive way possible while being able to easily remove it. I found the mounting setup in the picture on a Subaru Ascent forum but the guy failed to respond when I asked what hardware...

Hello everyone, I am a complete newbies when it comes to radio programming, I recently found a bunch of XPR 6350's thrown into a dumpster (I work for a local big pharma that apparently got an upgrade on their radios). Now I'm a las year CS student, and I know how to get around programming, but...

Hi, I am hoping somebody can help me. I just purchased 3 TK-8180 K-2s, used on Ebay for my ham radio use. We use the 7180s at my VFD, and I love everything about them, so the UHF version made sense to me. I tried to program it with the VFD's computer and it comes up "USE SJ-180!". I understand...

Hello, I made a repeater for my security company so we could go back to using our icoms and I made it using two Icom IC-F221s and I have a 9db omnidirectional antenna on a 50ft pole and with the handhelds it doesn't even work down the road and the mobile radios will pick it up fine I'm wondering...

I have 2 Uniden BCD996p2's and one is picking everything up just fine but the 2nd one wont pick anything up. i have the same Freqancies in both just one of them wont pick anything up and the other will?

I have a real fancy scanner that can scan anything. I also broadcast on Broadcastify with my regular scanner. I’m wondering about the legality of scanning and broadcasting wiscom p25 trunked law enforcement channels. Can you? Can you not? Why? I can’t seem to find anything regarding this...

I found this website ( Canforce VHF/UHF Frequecies (canairradio.com) ) on one of the forums on RadioReference.com and it looks really cool how they have laid out the radio frequencies for anyone to look at, but I'm not sure how to use this website. either this website just lays out frequencies...

Old post from October says offline due to power being out but not so. When will it be back online again??

Hello! I was recently speaking with a fellow enthusiast and they said if you are hiking at ANF and you get stuck or need emergency help, you can tune to one of the main input "net" frequencies (admin, law, forest, service) and you can broadcast to them for help. Naturally, I am extremely...

I started broadcasting Volusia County Public Safety , In my listing it was typed in as LE-5 in the description Page,,, Since I saw someone was already doing LE-5. I changed mine to LE-7 but having problems with the number 5 won't change to 7, any help please.. John

Hello, I am kinda new to this whole thing, I just bought a Uniden Bearcat BC125AT. After I bought it, I looked at the frequency I would use. Then i looked at the coverage map provided by RadioReference. I looked at the map and it showed the coverage area, that is when I noticed that I was barley...

Hi there. Last night, while sitting in my van listening to the scanner, it seemed to randomly stop receiving transmissions. My mobile (Baofeng UV-5R) was continuing to receive frequency 412.4625 with CTSS tone 107.2, but my BCT15X was not. I thought perhaps that my antenna got busted, but even...

I have a GPS plugged into my sds100 and it detects it and all, but when I turn off all of my favorites to use the gps as I'm driving, it says "scan mode nothing to scan". How do I turn gps mode on so I can drive around while the scanner follows my location?

I bought an sds100 about a week ago and I love it but I think it may have a battery problem. I get about an hour, not even like 45 minutes just on the battery itself and it doesn't matter what I'm scanning, while the big battery is boasted to last around 6 hours. I fully charged it to see if...

Hi, does anyone know how to make a pager channel for a Motorola HT1250, s then the channel will only be open if it receives an alert or tone?

I have two radios Im attempting to program: High power Astro Spectra Model T99DX+099W_ASTRO ID T04KLH9PW9AN Ser 412AWS0076 86W Astro Mobile Mod T99DX+086W_ASTRO ID D04KKF9PW4AN SER 412ABU3902 Both are the "1MEG" models I have RFGuys RIB-Less cables for both that are confirmed the correct...