Radio Scanners

[pete_w]

Got one on loan, amazing little devices, I can eavesdrop on all manner of conversations, from neighbours slagging off people on wire-free telephones to the old bill on thier nightly raids -rated

[Bonce]

Can it pick up DECT wireless telephones?

[pete_w]

Bonce said: Can it pick up DECT wireless telephones?

limited to older types which aren't digital me thinks, there's no decode facility



>> Edited by pete_w on Friday 21st March 17:07

>> Edited by pete_w on Friday 21st March 17:08

[roop]

They can't pick up DECT phones but the older analogue ones are easy to pick up. I have a Yaesu VR-500 which does this admirably. You thought your cordless only went 100yds or so. Nope. A good scanner's receiver is way more sensitive that the cack in a cordless phone and can easily can wind them in crystal clear up to half a mile away.

I use mine for the airband stuff, what with me doing a PPL and all it's extremely useful for learning the R/T.

Roop

[Deester]

Im a licenced radio amateur ( and pilot roop ) and I know how much fun there is to be had with these devices.

Sadly all my equipment is in Scotland and I am working in Germany at the moment

Its a shame there is hardly any analogue phones being used these days. I once heard my brother on the phone and was winding him up for weeks with inside info. Disgraceful, yes i know.

[rpguk]

Oh god, a mate had one of these a couple of years ago, we got a DECT phone not long after, and of course theres the fun of listening to the police radio (might use digital radio by now though)

I remember he could also pick up the studio mic's at sky news so you could hear what they were saying during the ad break

>> Edited by rpguk on Friday 21st March 19:25

[roop]

They can be good fun but also used for underhand stuff as well. I think mine goes from 500kHz all the way through to 1.3GHz with AM, NAM, WFM, NFM, CW, USB and LSB modes with a 0.05kHz tuning step for really fine adjustment. The only problem is you have to have the PC software to program it. Trying to remember all the keystrokes to input through the keypad is impossible...!

Just for info, you can pick up the old old cordless phones where the base tranmits back to the handset around 1.6MHz ona regular AM radio. Just go to the upper and of your regular radio's tuning on AM and you'll pick them up just the other side on 1.6MHz. Some 'digital tuning 'radios won't go this far but old analogue ones with a dial will often go this far.

Deester - What's this amateur radio malarkey all about. Are you the geezers I find at 145MHz and 435MHz...? Also, what do you fly...?