Cowman
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Picked up a Uniden BC350c off ebay and started messing with it, got sidetracked for a while, now I'm playing with it again. I'm pretty new to this stuff, but I'm generaly good with electronics so most of it is pretty easy to figure out.
I notice that first of all when I scan the preset police frequencies(or fire/ems) I get the local university's maintinance people a lot. I'm guessing they just happen to be using radio frequencies Uniden thought police would use. I'm also noticing I hear a lot of conversations between cops or dispatch but not the replies... clearly the other person must be on another frequency and I'm not picking it up.
I've read about trunking and I think I understand how it works . Does this suggest I'm hearing trunking systems? How do I figure out if local departments are using a trunked system and what scanner I'd need to listen in.
Being right next to a big state school, some of the police broadcast especialy late friday/saturday nights are kinda funny/interesting. During the day it's pretty dead though.
I programed some of the stuff from the database in, used it to figure out what a lot of things are. However I hear transmissions all the time that arn't there and I can't figure out who it is. How would I go about this?
I hear a lot of weird things... noise that's clearly not static but not voice either. It's probably just something un-interesting but I'm kinda curious.
I'm also hearing what sounds like audio from television broadcasts too sometimes, or what sounds like radio stations. Are these likely feeds for broadcast towers or something?
I notice that first of all when I scan the preset police frequencies(or fire/ems) I get the local university's maintinance people a lot. I'm guessing they just happen to be using radio frequencies Uniden thought police would use. I'm also noticing I hear a lot of conversations between cops or dispatch but not the replies... clearly the other person must be on another frequency and I'm not picking it up.
I've read about trunking and I think I understand how it works . Does this suggest I'm hearing trunking systems? How do I figure out if local departments are using a trunked system and what scanner I'd need to listen in.
Being right next to a big state school, some of the police broadcast especialy late friday/saturday nights are kinda funny/interesting. During the day it's pretty dead though.
I programed some of the stuff from the database in, used it to figure out what a lot of things are. However I hear transmissions all the time that arn't there and I can't figure out who it is. How would I go about this?
I hear a lot of weird things... noise that's clearly not static but not voice either. It's probably just something un-interesting but I'm kinda curious.
I'm also hearing what sounds like audio from television broadcasts too sometimes, or what sounds like radio stations. Are these likely feeds for broadcast towers or something?