Whole house scannner

[Chronic]

Is there a way or does anyone have any ideas on how to use 1 scanner and have audio all over the house . Stream through local network or some other means ?

 

[gmclam]

It depends on your house and how much you want to hear. There's a lot of ways to do it. I simply have scanners on "each end" of my house running to get that effect. You could just run audio from a scanner into a "stereo" and run speakers to where you want to hear. There's really dozens of ways to do what you want.

 

[RaleighGuy]

Bluetooth or wifi speakers is another way but as @gmclam said there are lots of ways from cheap to expensive

 

[AJAT]

I use a Bluetooth extender with a bluetooth earpiece. I only use one earpiece at a time. When the battery dies on the earpiece I am using, I use the other one while it re-charges.

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[w2xq]

Get an inexpensive low power AM or FM transmiiter and use a small portable radio to listen wherever you go. HTH.

 

[majoco]

What Tom says +1. A long time ago, (mid 80's) there was no FM radio in NZ. I had a reel-to-reel tape deck with all my favourites on it. There was an FM transmitter chip that with a few extra components would transmit all over my house and garden to a Heatkit FM stereo that I made in the UK and some FM/AM portables - worked really well. Nowadays it has grown into a MP3 SD card player with a better FM transmitter and has a couple of phono sockets on the back that I can connect to my 8 channel mixer which picks up the audio from scanners and HF receivers. 680+ oldies, an SD card of my favourite albums - the whole works. Runs on a 12volt plug back, just enough RF output to go 25 yards and all fitted into a small speaker box from the op shop.....

 

[RichardKramer]

I use a pair of RS 900MHz wireless intercoms. I use one on VHF/UHF a/c on 910MHz; one for VHF Fedcomms on 913MHz. They are WBFM, so you need a scanner that does WBFM unless you use one of the intercoms to listen. I bought an original pair when they were in stock; found a second pair on ebay a few years ago. My units are in the basement and have a range around 75' - 100' on the outside. They also give a bit of privacy, if you listen on FM on the scanner the tx are garbled. This model has 4 freqs: 910 - 911 - 912 - 913MHz. Use AC/4 AA batts.

 

[Chronic]

Good Ideas everyone
Thank You

 

[NC1]

Use a baby monitor and keep the portable unit with you. Some older ones are 900MHz analog and you can pick it up on a scanner.

 

[tvengr]

I know a firefighter who has a house intercom system. He feeds his scanner into the audio input on that system.

 

[racingfan360]

+1 to Tim's idea: I use a SCOSCHE FMT4R FM Transmitter for a whole host of applications indoor and out. Very simple, cheap, good range and flexible.

 

[lu81fitter]

+1 on the FM transmitter. 1/2 watt gets you about 100 yards in every direction. Works good for me.