Hi all - now that our Forum and Wiki IDs are the same, hopefully we won't see too much more of the spambots and netbots that have plagued us in the last month or two. It's been a busy month, so let's hop to it...you can find the referred article by looking at the topic and link in our wiki's front page as shown in
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- cubn has been continuing to add information to various sports organization's articles and the Champaign Ill.pages. In addition, articles on Formula One, Indy Racing League, Illinois County Dispatch, Major League Soccer, NBA and WNBA have been added (Special Topics/Sports and Location Specific Info/United States)
- CitationJet has corrected some data on our Fort_Belvoir/Davison_AAF article (Milcom)
- Cypherpunk has added an article for the Internal Squelch Adjustment on the BC246 (Special Topics/Modifications)
- LouMagg added redirects on SSB and LSB; I added numerous abbreviations from the wiki redirects special page to our glossary to make them easier to find. In addition Lou made some changes to the Astro 25 and Motorola Astro articles (Special Topics/RR Glossary)
- Davein has updated the articles for the GRE radios (Forum Specific Topics/GRE Radios)
- Scanner_freak has added some details to the Motorola Talkgroups and Motorola Type II SmartZone OmniLink articles (Special Topics/RR Glossary)
- Bala has added a stub for the Kenwood TK780/880. More information is needed here (Scanners, Receivers and Professional Radios/Professional Radios)
- Our chief has added a little to the Federal/Non-Federal Interoperability article (Forum Specific Topics/Federal)
- I've been busy, too...
- added a new article for BC245 owners that explains how to set up trunking with this old scanner (Special Topics/Programming Shortcuts)
- Additional documents from Bill Cheek, as well as interfacing older radios such as the AOR8000 and AOR8200 with Trunker were originally
located in the contents section has been migrated to the Wiki. The Trunker article has been modified with a new section to capture these links by receiver (Software and Trunked Radio Decoders).
- Migrated an article on getting a discriminator tap from the Icom R7100 from the contents area into the Wiki (Special Topics/Modifications)
- Follow up articles from Bill Cheek and originally found in the contents area, have been wrapped into the scandata faq document as scandata faq q10, q11 and q12 (Special Topics/Modifications)
- Added links to many web sites where receiver reviews can be found. This seems to be a very popular question. Don't be shy about adding another site to the list. (Scanners, Receivers and Professional Radios/Receiver Reviews)
- Added links to web sites where other scanner modifications - many of them for older models - can be found. Another question that seems to have a steady interest. Again, if you find a site with worthwhile mods, please add it to the list (Special Topics/Modifications)
- The Armed Forces Network has redesigned their website, and moved their HF frequency list.(Special Topics/Utility Monitoring)
- As we get closer and closer to the holidays, when people travel, a common question - besides where they can find frequencies - is where one can find frequencies for their scanner? Well, at least in some cases, the Yahoo group for your scanner has files in their files section (such is the case with the BCD396, for example). In other cases, there are regional scanning-related Yahoo groups that also has files. Some have put web pages up where you can find indexes to files. We now have such an article in our (Special Topics/Software) section called 'Programming Files'. If you know of any other regional Yahoo groups that have files, or a web page, please consider adding it to the list.
The other source is right here on RR, providing you are a paid subscriber and use one of the apps that can connect to the DB. Unfortunately
that list of supported apps is rather thin when you get beyond the BuTel and more current Starrsoft packages. If you don't have one of these apps, all is not lost, if you have Excel. Fmon and I built an article to detail how to use Excel to copy/paste data from the RRDB into various formats. Included are ARC250, Scan Control, most of the Win9x series and Scancat Lite Plus. Of course, ARC250's current version has the RRDB import ability, as does Win96/97, but this little tidbit is also good if you own an early version of the software, or don't have time to get on to pay for a subscription (Forum Specific Topics/Software). If there are other software packages that can use a similar technique (BCTool, Freescan, ProScan, ect.), please consider documenting it here. The title of the article is 'Excel Copy/Paste Special to Software'
A couple of things: Each ID on the wiki has a user area which can be used for just about anything radio related (and yes, that would include TV/FM DXing and skip chasing...). For example, do you find you are constantly referring to just a couple of articles? Code them on your user page, and you will have an even easier time of finding them. Want to try to code an article in an out of the way place, without putting it in the sandbox (which is public and can be wiped at any time)? Code it in your user area. In fact, I coded much of the new front article (the very first article you see when you bring up the wiki) in my own user area.
The other thing is directed squarely at the milcomers among us - with the loss of the FLIPs, it's now a good deal harder to find active frequencies, particularly if you're new. While it's true that using formatted searches finds new freqs, a good deal of the time, it's dead quiet. Newcomers need a good starting point - say 20 or 30 freqs that are known to be active in their area. Such a list can be used to gauge how well your setup is performing, as well as getting your feet wet with a minimum of hassle. We have a few areas already covered in the wiki, but could stand lots more.
73s and out....Mike
