Cellular Restoration Modification? What's that?

[Navycop]

I hate to be a pest, but I am trying to understand this scanner "business". That's why we have people like you good folks for dummies like me.. I would appreciate the help..

 

[John_M]

Cellular restoration modification? It sounds to me that it restores the cellular phone frequencies in the 800mhz band. This is a useless modification because cellular phones use
encryption, all you will hear is garble.

 

[BoxAlarm187]

There was a law passed many years ago that made it illegal to use or manufacture a scanner that was capable of picking up cellular freq's (which lie within the 800MHz band). The manufacturers complied with the law, but made it very easy on some models to "unblock" the cellular band. However, scanners (for the most part) are now nearly impossible to modify to pick up this band, so it's pretty much a moot point.

What makes it even more of a moot point is that this band of freq'svwas dedicated to analog cell phones, which are nearly a thing of the past. Virtually all cell phones are now digital, and using a different set of freqs.

Hope that explains it a little bit...

 

[Navycop]

Hey. I gave up on the PRO-70. I saw a PRO-90 that said it had the cellular mod. I guess I won't get that one either..

 

[n4jri]

There's really no point anymore in even trying to pick up cellular. It would be best to save your money for something that will monitor systems after rebanding. I'm on pins and needles hoping that I can reprogram the PRO-96 for it.

73/Allen (N4JRI)

 

[Al42]

I'm on pins and needles hoping that I can reprogram the PRO-96 for it.

Probably ... by sending it back to the factory.

 

[SEGA]

PLEASE HELP MODIFICATION FOR PRO-95 ?


thanking you in advance !!!!!!

 

[spanner]

Hmm

Not to start a war here, but on my FT 530 with mod, I still "see" cell traffic in the cell portion of the band in the "clear". I really do not listen to cell, but out here in Western Maryland, there appears to still be a lot of in the "clear" cell traffic.

 

[SM166]

There is still anolog phones in use, ther digital phones are NOT encrypted, and if and when the re-banding/re alignment starts NO you dont have to send the radio back to the factory, some models you just reprogram yourself, this tread has been address all over the net....

 

[BoxAlarm187]

NO you dont have to send the radio back to the factory, some models you just reprogram yourself, this tread has been address all over the net....

Perhaps you missed the threads that seem to feel that the RS models with have to go back to Fort Worth for re-programming, while the Unidens will have a downloadable flash?

No one knows 100% what the effect on RS/GRE and Uniden models will be.

As for the cell phones not being encrypted, that's true, it's just that they're operating in a frequency spectrum that most off-the-shelf scanners will not receive.