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Equipment and Software

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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


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.