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Forum Specific Topics
- Aircraft - Listen to aircraft; from your local towers to aircraft in flight around the world.
- Antennas - The most important part of your station.
- Federal - One of the most popular - and hard to document - areas to monitor
- HF- Hearing broadcasts from around the world; receiver reviews, antennas and more
- Installations
- Marine
- Milcom - Lots of information on monitoring the military
- Railroad
- Shack Photos
- Software - Logging, Recording, and control applications
- Severe Weather/Storm Chasing
- DXing Above 30 Mhz
- SATCOM - Military, Amateur satellites - along with hearing - and maybe working - the International Space Station
- Online Radios Online Scanners, Receivers and Amateur radio sites on the net
- Manufacturers/Distributors Scanner and Receiver Manufacturers/Distributors
- Trunking Numerous links to articles on the basics, FAQs, system types and terminology are stored here
- Trunked Radio Decoders DOS and Windows utilities for examining the data streams used in Control Channels of trunked radio systems
- Radios on eBay - Find a used or new scanner or receiver on eBay
Location Specific Info
Frequency and other pages built by our members
- Related information
- Scanner Laws If you have questions about the legal aspects of scanning, this site is the one to check first.
- RR Wiki Extensions - are a set of custom tags that can be used on the Wiki.
Antennas and Accessories
Anything from mounts, stands, battery packs and more
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RR Admin and Special Services
Special Topics
- ACARS - Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System; hints and software.
- ALE - also known as MIL-STD 188-141A, it's in heavy use by the military and diplomatic services and even hams
- Amateur Radio Gear - Often now has widebanded receive sections; useful as a backup scanner in some places
- Common Frequencies in use across the US and Canada can be found here.
- DMA Radios Hints and Kinks - Hints and fixes for the new Uniden DMA Radios
- Modifications - Always a popular topic; add functions to your scanner or receiver
- Natural Events and Disasters - Topics on monitoring public safety and other communications during natural disasters and other natural events. (Skip and Tropo NOT included.)
- Personal Radio Services - GMRS, FRS, etc.
- Police/Fire/EMS Apparatus Photos and Info - a location to post pictures and information regarding vehicles etc.
- Programming Shortcuts - Helpful tips and shortcuts for programming your scanner
- Propagation - Radio and TV signals can travel further than just line of sight. To understand how, take a look here
- Rebanding A detailed article on the reallocation of services within the 800 Mhz spectrum. It will have a major effect on all trunktracking scanners.
- RR Glossary - An index of terminology often used on RR
- Sports Frequencies
- SWL Broadcast You want to hear what other overseas broadcasters say about us? Start here
- Utility Monitoring There's lots more on HF besides hams, CB and broadcasters
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