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Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 21:53:11 No.812201 View View Reply Original Report

I got this Realistic Channel Pro-2005 off an ex-prepper at a car boot sale today, I've never tried ham radio before and can't work out how to make it scan through frequencies. It searches through memory banks instead. The manual is no help either.

Can someone into prepping or ham radio help me out? I know I need a license to transmit, I can't transmit on it as it has no microphone socket. I just want to tune into something.

Radio thread I guess.

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Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 22:12:25 No.812219 Report

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>>812201
we have a radio general somwhere OP, those guys can shirly help you

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 22:17:05 No.812226 Report

Quoted By: >>812244 >>813712

>>812201
You need to register yourself for a call #. If you get caught hamming without one you can be in serious trouble. This is not just about transmitting and there is a mike jack on that model. It's the Pro-2005

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Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 22:31:47 No.812241 Report

Quoted By: >>812243

>>812201
That's a scanner, it doesn't have the circuits for transmission. Only thing "illegal" you can do with it is (try to) break encryption.

The manual tells you how to program channels and has a section on "bank" operation. Select a bank, program in frequencies, and start scanning.

That scanner won't be much help since almost every jurisdiction now has moved to P25 digital. Those that are still on analog are usually trunked.

Smaller/volunteer districts still use analog equipment, most still maintain an analog channel/freq pair for legacy equipment like narc/lock boxes and for interop.

Another option for scanning is a SDR receiver. This is just the receiver part of a radio, that plugs into your computer. Software on the computer is what's doing the decoding... which makes cheap hardware very powerful.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 22:34:30 No.812243 Report

Quoted By: >>812245 >>813276 >>813716

>>812241
If you get caught listening to fisrt responder channels you can be in troubles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 22:36:11 No.812244 Report

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>>812226
Don't listen to this guy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Jul 2016 22:38:03 No.812245 Report

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>>812243
and you're still wrong.

Unless you're using a scanner during the commission of another crime, or if you've managed to break an encrypted channel, there's nothing illegal about listening to emcomms.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2016 15:17:05 No.813276 Report

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>>812243
Sometimes I wish we had to register accounts so people this fucking stupid could be identified.

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Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 03:32:02 No.813712 Report

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>>812226
Uh yeah, you know nothin'

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 03:36:56 No.813716 Report

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>>812243
What country are you in?

In the US you can listen all you want. The only time its illegal is if you're doing something else illegal... or in California

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Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 04:27:37 No.813742 Report

Quoted By: >>813758 >>814470 >>817740

Juuuust wondering if any of you radio guise would be looking to buy any nice vintage radio mics? I refurb old mics for a hobby/business but sales are slow and I'm startig to run out of cash. Sorry to shill.

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Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 05:04:12 No.813758 Report

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>>813742
Are they USB?

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Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 05:30:05 No.813768 Report

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>>813758
no

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Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 10:23:05 No.814433 Report

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>>813768
price range?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 12:52:08 No.814470 Report

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>>813742
Didn't I see you on Reddit about 2-3 years ago shilling your mics?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 14:15:29 No.814484 Report

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>>814433
wellt hese vintage beauts are pretty much between $50 and $200, depending

>>814470
nope. never been to reddit, and I didn't start refurbing mics until this year

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Anonymous Fri 15 Jul 2016 11:55:37 No.815102 Report

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http://www.repeater-builder.com/radio-shack/pro-200x/pro-2005-om.pdf

You should be able to pic up amateurs on it at least.

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Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 01:55:44 No.817720 Report

Quoted By: >>817730

>>814484
go to reddit those cucks will gobble that shit up

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 02:17:55 No.817730 Report

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>>817720
eh I don't wanna go to reddit. i'll be fine ƒam

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 02:26:17 No.817740 Report

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>>813742
some of those are gorgeous. if I wasn't destitute poor I would gladly give you business.

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Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 02:33:01 No.817745 Report

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>>817740
s'all good mang! and yeah i'm kind of attached to them †bh. but to keep things going i gotta sell some, so i can buy some, and repeat. the profit margin can be pretty good when you get real junkers that need a lot of work, and it so rewarding taking a mic that hasn't spoken in 30, 40, 50 years and bringing it back. radio enthusiasts and certain musicians and sound engineers really love them

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