How To Find ANY Radio Frequency For Your Scanner

I don't have a license to transmit on my wouxun kguv9d+ but I like to listen is more interesting to me

What about close call ?

You know how to make someone time sick for the good old days with them thumb nails of scanners. Brings back great memorires Glory days of scanning. Thanks

Can you do an episode on equipment selection? Different components like receiver's antennas cabling?

back in the day we only needed the uk scanning directory book , they where the days

There is no nothing about how to scan for a frequency. You talked about it but didn't show it

Our State Police here in Pennsylvania went encrypted a few years ago.

In end with my disabling issues all became too much and I only share a few things with others more privately but no one ever told me not to publish freqs and while had a few issue mostly were ok with government agencies and police

Also easier today as many one freqs are on government website for anyone to check

Biggest problem with 2009 edition was NATO did a freq change for every uhf mil freq, luckily many were published by them at the time, but meant anything there was pretty much gone

Also u show a uniden there with close call, which is a very good way now to find freqs even if it's digital on ubc125 then will still open the freq up, on sds100 and ubc3600 will decode it in many cases

As for uhf police I put my stuff together by listening and working out the channels based on that, also worked out there were special channels 451.975 to 452.350 that weren't regular use, we're mi5, royal protection and other more special use
So in 2009 many of the police freqs were still active but many werent easiest 5hibg was to show that this is where they were to be found if u were still pre airwave

And to this day sone of the freqs in 9th edition uk scanning directory I helped with, deleting lots of unused freqs, we left sone police and others because we'd only just changed and many freqs were still well in use

Again those army freqs are still mod freqs to this day so maybe individual mould freqs are gone but the bands are very much still used by army etc

142 isn't allocated to American airforce I uk it's an 8nteenational military band that use 137 to 160 mhz am, raf, usaf, usafe, Belgian, French, Italian well many differant air forces use

total newbie here with a talk pod a36 plus. I have trouble picking up anything at all. I was even at a mini air show the other day, Scan picked up nothing at all. I googled the frequency for the airfield and typed that in and still just fuzz. most i’ve had out of it is faint fuzzy mumbles here and there. am I doing something wrong?

Seeing all those 1980 and 1990 scanners brought back so many memories lol. I think I owned every one of those Radio Shack/Realistic scanners shown lol. Great advice and information!

One service that a lot of people seem to overlook is news media comms to remote crews. The crews report on what's going on and the producers tell them what needs to be filmed or who to interview. It is less busy in these days of cell phones but there is still a lot of traffic as it is convenient for the crews to just pick up a mic instead of making a call.

why not use close call ?

TG-UV2PLUS or MD10 ?

TG-UV2PLUS or MD10 ?

Navi : HEY ! LISTEN !!...
me: ok

What is the actual reason for using AM in the air? And then back to FM when they get to the space station? I take it the space shuttle or now spaceX use FM all the way up to space as it isn't an aircraft? Or am I wrong?

Thanks again Lewis. Always informative and helpful 👍 👌

Off to Ringway road/Shadowmoss at noon today..trying my new Watson aerial. Quite good reception at the runway threshold. It's sunny too. 🌞 😊😊😊

Spot on Lewis, time and patience are key parts of scanning. Takes some time to build up a directory and some frequencies come and go. It’s also worth keeping an eye on big events too like Eurovision and the Commonwealth Games for example, new comms usually pop up.
Driving around town with a small micro mag mount can be interesting and new frequencies can be found that way. 73 👍🏼

It would still require some manual cultivation, but I could imagine having an SDR and some programming knowledge could help. Write a programme that listens to a small section of the airwaves for a fraction of a second, if there's some signal above a certain threshold, record the frequency and time, then move on, if there is no signal just move on. You'd need to then go through and actually see what's there and prune your list to get rid of the frequencies that are just interference, but such a programme if run for a day or two would easily give you a finite list of places to start a manual search. Recording the time would be crucial in narrowing your search, since if something is making noise at all hours of the day, it could just be a machine making electrical noise, but if times are sporadic or only showing activity on a schedule, you might have actual communication.

radio reference uk just put your post code in and how many miles you want to receive

Just my 2 cents if you want to scan only get an SDR
1 they are cheap 2 you can listen to everything within a very large frequency range. Yes it does take a little bit of learning but there is a tutorial for everything and you can visually look at a large portion of bandwidth and actually see transmissions and there are decoders available for almost everything that isn’t truly encrypted and it’s easy to expand its capabilities through application specific add ons.

One of my prized possessions in the late 90s was a Scout RF scanner. It was great for finding any nearby FM transmitters. It was a very simple device that would simply capture a log any FM modulation considerably above the RF floor. They make a new variant called the digital scout for finding newer digitally modulated signals...but it's not cheap.

This is very good content and comments. Even with the most modern radioreference website, it still took time with my local EDACS listening to understand the talk groups and how some of them work together. Same with Amateur Radio here in USA. Need to take all available lists with a grain of salt. Simple as my 2-meter FM rig, I find the programming needs to change every few months.

I have an app on my phone that picks up railway radio traffic, which makes hunting for trains much easier. I'd get a proper scanner, but they're technically illegal here, so getting them is tricky

All emergency services here in Australia have gone to P25 encrypted so scanners are now about as useful as a hip pocket in a singlet. Friday and Saturday nights used be interesting listening in on the police and hearing what the non reflectives were up to while downing several convivial ales.

Great info.... Many thanks 👍

I use an Airspy R2 and an AR-DV1 at the same time, connected to the same antena with a splitter. While searching, i look for signals on the SDR (10 MHz bandwidth window) and tune the AR-DV1 whenever I discover a new signal. Log everyting in a spreadsheet. Store the interesting frequencies in the AR-DV1. When listening, just set the AR-DV1 in scanner mode hopping over all the banks you're interested. This way you can compile your own "frequency book" in a couple of weeks. The best part is listening to a frequency for hours, logging every small glimpse of information, putting it all together and getting a picture of what's going on and where.

Yip, it's just what I do as a newcomer to this game: I use the best antenna that's fit for t'job, and just keep scanning the bejesus out of every frequency my kit covers.. Great fun... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

In Australia there are companies that offer a full service solution to businesses that need two-way comms, typically pubs, private security, event management etc where radio is not their core business. They provide 400mHz band radios on a lease basis and handle licencing for a monthly fee. The problem is the licence is not in the name of the end user, so impossible to discern from the ACMA public register (bit like Rimington cabs). The only way to find out is to use a scanner with close capture technology, or an rtl-sdr with a very short ant positioned close to the location of interest. Most are still NFM simplex and unencrypted - this video has inspired me to start hunting!

That great and well said. this applies to the USA as well .we have radio reference online in the US. somewhat up to date. in the US we have a law on the books we can listen to anything that is transmitted but limits on what we do with what is hurd. nice pic's of some great scanners . 73's

You know this is going to open a plethora of questions from folk wanting to know how to listen to the police!🤣🤣👍🏼👍🏼

there is always a well known radio reference site in the UK where you can download frequencies by type and proximity and even dump them into the Uniden with software they provide - requires a small sub though. I use it for aviation and it seems up to date to me

You can also use a frequency counter when you find an antenna.

Super Video RM. I've Been Buying and Collecting Radio Scanners and Shortwave Radio's since the Early 2000's and Have Many Log Books full of Frequencies and Radio Station Information. It's a Great Hobby and a Great way to stay in Touch with what's going on in your Community and the World. Thanks Again and Take Care***

My Uniden BCD436HP serves me well.

next video will be called how the goverment put me on the black list for being on statons your not supposed to be on

I got the uniden bc125at but the software pack for it is like dam old. An any other program i found is outdated badly so any suggestions for a software base that can help monitor?

About 4 mins in, the montage of rxrs showed 3 that I still own. The steepletone I just threw the box and earphones that came with it away. Its time to dust off my realistic though.

Are the police in the UK gone tetra.

Here in the US, use a search engine, enter in frequencies and give it your City and State. Simple!

When hunting for stations that only transmit intermittently, I usually set the radio to wideband FM. When I hear traffic, I switch to narrow and hopefully log the frequency.

And there was me thinking the question you get asked nearly every day is "How does it feel to be so blessed with good looks, an encyclopaedic knowledge of radio and talents extending to drone flying and video production?"
Must be the second most question posed to you. :-)