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Recording Off Your Scanner All you need is a scanner ( of course), a dual tape recorder, a car kit tap ( the one with the wire on it ), and a blank tape. Plug the car kit tape into the headpone jack on your scanner. Put the tape in the non-recording side of your dual tape player. Now, put a blank tape in the recording side. Zero in on the frequency you want to record of of. Finally, record as you normaly would using your dual tape player. You can record anything that your scanner can pick up, only, you might want to watch it because it could be illegal...: ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hotel Frequencies Hotels use 154.570 and 154.600 to dispatch workers. For an example, Room 135 wants pillows. You'll hear"Room 135 needs pillows!!" Pretty neat! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hanging Up Cell Phones With Your Scanner If your listening to someones cellphone call and are within about 30 feet you can hang up their call. heres what you do put in there input frequency 806-956 or whatever then add 45 MHZ to see if can here them on the out put as well as the phone line audio .... then if you add 10.7 to that frequency , it will generate a low power carrier on there phone.. because the cell phone thinks it lost the cell frequency it will hang up in about 3 seconds ,pretty cool huh!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Telivision Freqs. ch 2 59.7500 ch 3 65.7500 ch 4 72.7500 ch 5 81.7500 ch 6 87.7500 ch 7 179.750 ch 8 185.750 ch 9 191.750 ch 10 19.750 ch 11 203.750 ch 12 209.750 ch 13 215.750 ch 14 475.750 ch 15 481.750 ch 68 799.750 ch 69 805.750 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Using Your Scanner & Phone As A Walky-Talky Do you have a scanner that can pick up your cordless phone frequencies? Great, use it as a walky talky. This is great for your house projects. Ok, take yoru cordless phone and call it ( usually 211+your phone number ). Your phone should remain silent long enough to do this. Now take your scanner and zero in on your phone freq. Now, the person who needs to communicate gest the phone, and the other gets the scanner. Of couse you can only talk thru one end but you get the idea ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Listening Too Your Scanner In Your Car If you want to listen to your scanner in your car sometimes it is hard to hear it because the speaker isn't loud enough. You can get a "car kit" and play your scanner thru your stereo speakers in your car. It's pretty cool. Do however, make sure that you get a mono plug for the scanner that also goes to a stereo output. That way it will play thru all of your speakers not just half your car. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Make A Scanner Into A Powerhouse USING A RADIO SHACK PLUG IN WHOLE HOUSE ANTENNA YOU CAN TAKE A SCANNER AND TURN IT INTO A POWERHOUSE. JUST BUY A WALL OUTLET WHOLE HOUSE ANTENNA FOR 10.00 BUCKS AND 6" OF BNC CONNECTOR AND A F TO BNC T CONECTOR, INSTALL AND YOU ARE SET TO GO ENJOY. SAME TRICK CAN ALSO BE USED WITH A RABBIT EARS ANTENNA. ITS DIRECTIONAL BUT THAT MEANS THT ONCE YOU GET IT ON THE EXACT POINT OR LINE OF SIGHT, YOU GET THE BEST OF THE BEST. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Weather Frequencies I got some weather channels for you... 162.5500 162.4000 162.4750 162.5250 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aircraft Transponders Frequencies Aircraft Transponders:frequency:1090 MHz.AM mode,Like a short buzz from each aircraft as the ground radar illuminates each of them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get Long Frequency Range IF YOU ARE A PERSON WHO LIKES TO GET THE LONGEST FREQUENCY RANGE ON YOUR SCANNER THEN HERES SOMETHING FOR YOU. I SAID LAST TIME THAT YOU COULD USE A WHOLE HOUSE ANTENNA OR A RABBIT EARS FOR GOOD RECEPTION. NOW I DISCOVERED YOU CAN HOOK UP A ROTATING TV ANTENNA TO YOUR SCANNER AND PICK UP GREAT. I TRIED IT AND AM EVEN PICKING UP PORTABLE PHONES IN THE 46-49 MHZ. TRY IT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Transmit On Police Frequency If you have a cb radio,,,,turn to channel 9 which most local small town police departments run and while the dispatcher is talking and you scanner is tuned in,,,,hold the cb microphone up to the speaker on the scanner and key up the cb (please be brief)...if they monitor channel 9 you will hear feedback....yours....over the police frequency. I did this only once for a quick experiment...and suggest not making a habit of doing it....but to my suprise it was interesting to know that I transmitted a signal over the police frequency. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Finding Business Frequencies You take a scanner near a small bussinuess and put the scanner in the back of your car and search all the frequencies with the ant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Listen In On Your Local Storm Spotters During severe weather and tornado warnings, search between the frequencies of 144.500 mhz and 148.000 mhz. These frequencies are anateur radio repeaters where storm spotting activities can be heard. Often you will hear severe weather reports 10-20 minutes before the TV stations because these are the ACTUAL storm chasers! Trust me, I'm one! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Traffic Report Frequencies I have found several radio station traffic reporter (the helocopters) for the SF Bay Area. They are primarily around 450 to 460 Mhz. (I don't have it right in front of me). I listen in my truck and get a much more complete picture of traffic than the 20 sec. commercial radio spots. However, some of the traffic organizations use these UHF only for internal communications (i.e. go to the bridge and tell me, base out) and seem to use either a cell phone or a different radio set up for the reports on the radio. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More On Recording A Conversation Ever want to record a conversation with out dead space??? The VOX on a recorder won't work because the line voltage turns it on permanently. If you add a 10 micro farad capacitor on the (+) side of the patch cord the recorder will only record when the frequency isn't squelched out. I've tried it and it works. (you may need to play w/ the capacitor size a little. Ever want to record a conversation with out dead space??? The VOX on a recorder won't work because the line voltage turns it on permanently. If you add a 10. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yorktin, Saskatshewan Frequencies Yorktin, Saskatchewan Police = 156.0300 & 155.0700 Aircraft = 122.200 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cell Phone Frequency Range Cellular phones come in at 896.000Mhz to 914.000Mhz.