How many Scanners do you have(or want)?

[KD2DLL]

I got a few emails asking what it sounds like when they all get a CC hit.
Normally they don't all get CC hits at the same time.
Sometimes only one does.
But.....................
Here's a short video of 'most' of them getting a hit from an HT in the same room.
Rich

SAM 0041 - YouTube

I would love to have this many scanners. Where abouts in NY are you? Just curious on what counties and agencies you are monitoring with all of those.

 

[rbm]

I would love to have this many scanners. Where abouts in NY are you? Just curious on what counties and agencies you are monitoring with all of those.

I'm in northern Broome county.

I monitor Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga, Delaware, Chemung, and Otsego in New York.
Susquehanna, Bradford, and parts of Wyoming and Lackawanna in Pennsylvania.

I'm using 5 antennas and I'm guilty of doing what nobody should ever do (according to several threads on here), I'm running low noise pre-amps on all the feed lines. I also have several multi-couplers. One of the antennas is feeding 32 scanners.

Rich

 

[One13Truck]

I got a few emails asking what it sounds like when they all get a CC hit.
Normally they don't all get CC hits at the same time.
Sometimes only one does.
But.....................
Here's a short video of 'most' of them getting a hit from an HT in the same room.
Rich

SAM 0041 - YouTube

I don't play around with the CC on any of mine. Actually I've never used it on any of mine. Interesting to see those all going off though.

 

[jwlehman]

RMB...just curious, what do you do with all the traffic you log? Is it business or do you do it as a hobby?

 

[rbm]

RMB...just curious, what do you do with all the traffic you log? Is it business or do you do it as a hobby?

It's not for business. It's all hobby.

However, there are quite a few people who know I log most of what happens in the area and they often come to me to ask what happened in their neighborhood (etc.) at some time in the past.

It also keeps me up to date on what's going on in my area, frequency uses, changes, etc.

The New York deer hunting season opened recently and since then I record all the activity on FRS/GMRS/MURS frequencies so I know what's happening around home.

I started logging long ago when I was heavy into shortwave 'utility' listening and it carried over to the scanner frequencies shortly after.
Back then it was all on tapes, now it's all digital on hard drives so it's easier to access and store.

Rich

 

[Scanner_Rider]

I currently use a Radio Shack Pro 82 as both base and mobile scanner. At home I connect it to the charger to recharge the batteries and when in my vehicle I clip it on my sun visor with the rubber antenna in the windshield between the visors to maximize reception.

Hopefully I can get a few more years use out of it as a reserve officer I know told me that our area isn't pursuing rebanding anytime in the near future because of the topography of our area.

 

[zzdiesel]

I use 3 here in the house. I run a Radio Shack & a Uniden BCT-15 at my desk. I use my GRE PSR-800 in my bedroom. The wifey loves me for that one. NOT!!! I have a Uniden BCD996XT in my pickup truck.

 

[jmp883]

My home shack consists of 5 scanners. I have 2 BC-780's, 2 BC-785's, a Home Patrol, and a BC-890.

I have 4 hand-held scanners. The first is a Radio Shack trunker, a JD-100 from Sporty's Pilot Shop for monitoring aviation, and a Yaesu VR-500 and an Icom R-5 for monitoring wideband.

In my truck I have a BCT-15X, and since I'm a ham, I have a Yaesu 7800 transceiver.

Living in northern NJ, just outside of NYC, there is plenty to listen to. My favorites are aviation, railroads, and the FDNY. I'm an emergency services dispatcher and the mobile scanner lets me monitor not only my town so I know what I'm getting into, but also what is happening in the towns along my 30+ mile commute.

Do I want any more scanners? Probably not. I think I'm at the point where it's more of replacing an old scanner with a newer, more capable scanner.

Enjoy!

 

[zz0468]

APX7000, XTL5000. I don't want or have any scanners. They're just not up to the job.

 

[scannerboy01]

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I have currently one scanner, but I would like to have one for each service in the house with some good antennas and one for the vehicle.