Equipment and Software

Welcome to the RadioReference Equipment and Software Gateway.
Getting the receiver is only half the battle. There are other things that go along with them; antennas, power supplies, software for programming (and in some cases, logging and control). The topics below should give you some leads to articles with lots of links on each subject.

Equipment

Scanner Antennas Mobile, base, handheld - and even a few homebrew designs and some technical notes, too
A variety of Scanner Accessories are linked here.
A variety of schematics for data slicers are presented here. These devices convert a signal tapped from the discriminator of your scanner into something the PC can recognize. Important for some utilities that read trunked systems' control channel data.
If you live in an urban area, at times your scanner may hear pagers and other things in areas where you don't want to. Adding a filter is one answer to this annoying problem
Whether you are listening in a car, house or portable, reading the Powering Your Scanner article should help in choosing the right power supply for your application
Would you like to share a single antenna among many radios? Then check out the splitters links.

Software

Welcome to the Software section. Here you'll find scanner software links presented in several combinations, audio tools, and more.

Applications Pages

ARC96 - how to enter Rebanding changes
ARC500 User Guide - for the object-oriented GRE and Radio Shack scanners
Excel Copy/Paste Special to Software - If you are using an app that doesn't connect to the web service, you can still grab data using this method
FreeScan User Guide
IScan Installation and Tips - For the RS Pro-107 and GRE PSR-700
Software Setup For Linux How to set up Linux to work with several packages
SlavedScan
TwoToneDetect
Win96 - Includes how to apply Rebanding changes
Win500 with Wine - How to set up Win500 using Wine

General

Radio Control Software - A concise listing of articles with links for scanner software found on this site.
Recording Software and Tips - Recording utilities such as RecAll, Scanner Recorder and more

GRE Support

Popular Software for GRE Scanners
For the PSR-300 and PSR-400, see the PSR-300/400 Software and USB Support article. Rebanding information can also be found here.
For the PSR-310, PSR-410, PSR-500, PSR-600 and PSR-700, see the Object Oriented Scanner Software article. Rebanding information can also be found here.

Radio Shack Support

Popular Software for Radio Shack Scanners – A cross reference of software support, by model number and type (handheld or base/mobile)
For the Pro-97, Pro-2055, Pro-163 and Pro-164, see the PSR-300/400 Software and USB Support article. Rebanding information (for the 163 and 164) can also be found here.
For the Pro-106, Pro-107 and Pro-197, see the Object Oriented Scanner Software article. Rebanding information can also be found here.

Uniden Support

Uniden Legacy Software Support - Packages that support multiple Uniden legacy scanners (pre-DMA)
Uniden DMA Software Support - Packages that support multiple Uniden DMA scanners
Software Support for Uniden Rebanding - How to apply Rebanding changes in various Uniden software packages

Connecting the PC and Scanner

Getting the right software is a start; now how do I connect the scanner and PC? These articles discuss this question.