help a newbie

I recently bought a UV5RP and a UV5R and noticed they have different frequency ranges on them, but I’m wondering if I can pick an empty frequency and communicate with a friend on it. I looked it up and supposedly it’s illegal, some videos say yes it’s illegal and you get fined, some say you...

I'm replacing old/expensive walkies at work (Kenwood ProTalkXLS and Kenwood PKT-23) with Midland BR180. Both use the same set of frequencies, and codes and I feel like I'm so close to getting them to work together, but I've hit a wall. When I press the talk button on the Midland, the light...

Hello, I am interested in setting up a home garage CB radio base station in an outer ring suburb of Minneapolis. I currently have a Cobra 29 LTD and a firestik antenna. I can hear all kinds of skip but zero local traffic. After a bit of research I have found that a radio called the Anytone...

Just got a BC200xlt scanner. I’m having trouble searching for active channels. I’ve read the instructions and I think I’m following them, but it just says error every time. Could someone help?

Hey there, Hopefully I am posting this in the right place - I have just discovered this forum tonight and am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. My family and I have bought a Uniden BCD996P2 for my grandmother because her old police scanner became irrelevant after the local...

Hello, I recently bought an SDS 100 and almost immediately started looking for a replacement antenna. I ended up going with the Remtronix 842-S. It works ok, but I am looking to cut out some of the static. I have little experience with antennas and would like to ask for help in choosing the...

Good morning all, I am new here and I have a Whistler 1065 Digital Trunking Scanner that I am trying to program. I am a RR premium subscriber and using the ARC500 software to program the scanner. The instruction manual seems vague and isn't helping me with my issue. I can hear Randolph Co Fire...

Is there anybody out there that knows how to reprogram MCS 2000 Motorola Radios? A few friends and I just got a handful of these radios and we would like to program them to a different frequency. I have the RIB cables, The CPS software was given to me by the same guy that programed the radios...

I recently purchases an sds100, I even paid extra for the county programming option, the only problem is my town and most of the towns near me adapted to a digital system and the programming that I paid 50$ for is the old system so nothing local comes through. I'm trying to add new jersey towns...

Hi there! I have been doing a lot of research, trying to understand, on how to exactly get the most of my Uniden SDS 200. It has certainly been an experience as this is all a foreign language to me. Not to bore, but, after my fathers passing I picked it us as I have listened to scanners with...

First time posting on the forum hello all im having a little trouble i hope someone can point me in the right direction im trying to connect my vertex vxr-9000u repeater to a trident raider ii extreme controller with a db25 cable with breakout board connectors on each end. This is my first time...

Hi folks! New to the digital scanners. Very familiar with the conventional stuff but this digital stuff is over my head. I received a Uniden BCD996P2 for Christmas. I am trying to listen to the Monroe/Ontario County P25 System. I live in Ontario County, NY. I have the scanner, the...

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...

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, I bought a pre-programmed Uniden scanner model BCD536 HP p25 series 2. I reside within Pennington County SD 57703. I bought this scanner to replace my other one as all PD,Sheriff, ems & fire went to P25 series 2 and mine wouldn’t work. After getting this...

Hello fellow Texans, I am new to the scanner world. I am looking at getting the Uniden BCD325P2. Will this work for monitoring public safety freqs in Bexar Co, Hays Co, and Travis Co? It looks like agencies such as San Antonio PD are now encrypted? Is it possible to use the above scanner to...

Hi All, Using SDR I'm trying to figure out how to listen to the following: https://www.radioreference.com/db/sid/861 I'm starting from the very begining. This is very daunting. Would anyone be so kind to either point me to a tutorial I can follow on how best to setup via Unitrunker v2 ? I'm...

Hey y'all I need some help, I'm new into everything to do with radio, I got my RTLSDR last month so I don't have a good grasp on everything. I have been trying to decode digital voice for a while, and I have had success once, the image attached has the frequency I am trying to decode. I have...

I just bought a BCD536HD. I created a favorites list using the Sentinal software, saved it, wrote it to the scanner but it will not scan the list. When I first powered on the scanner I entered my zip code and that is the only thing that scans. The scanner shows that my favorites list is uploaded...

I just got a whistler ws1065 I'm trying to listen to Midland ,MI I have the channels programmed to the scanner but I hardly pick anything up I hear things every now and again. I also have the local ham radio frequencies programed on scan list #2 and that come's in clear as day. I don't know if...

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