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I have an SC180B and I cant program it. Any segustions...
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Mr. Toy Member # 311
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Who is the manufacturer of the scanner? Do you have the owner's manual? If not, I suggest you go to the manufacturer's website and see if they have a manual you can download.
------------------ Trust God, love your neighbor, and never mistake opinion for truth. -Mr. Toy
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Hi Jonathon, I have the same scanner along with the SC200 that you can program with a PC. Try the link I have hear it is to the Uniden web sight. If the link does not work look under support and then the scanner modle. Let me know if this helps. Bill http://www.uniden.com/productsupport2.cfm?product=SC180B
JONATHON Member # 2899
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Thanks!
------------------ JONATHON D. ORTIZ
UncleBuck44 Member # 2049
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When I was in a hotel room in STL up high and right next to the yards in Downtown STL, you could hear for miles
CoastStarlight99 Member # 2734
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WHats a scanner????????????
JONATHON Member # 2899
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A scanner can be used to listen to train freqinecies, thats how you can hear a hotbox detecter.
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CoastStarlight99 Member # 2734
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You mean like a Two way radio? Hot box?
Anton
JONATHON Member # 2899
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No.
------------------ JONATHON D. ORTIZ
Geoff Mayo Member # 153
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A scanner is like the auto-find function on your radio. It goes through all the frequencies until it finds a strong signal. However, it can scan a much wider range of frequencies than your average AM/FM radio (in fact mine does virtually everything EXCEPT AM/FM radio!). American railroads use upto 100 different channels - the best scanners can scan through all 100 in less than a second so you miss very little, if any, communication. However, you'll usually be tuned to one frequency at a time, at least for a few hours at a time.
Home scanners are receive-only. The ones the conductors carry are two-way. Don't buy one of those as you could transmit something unintentionally and land yourself in hot water.
Geoff M.
UncleBuck44 Member # 2049
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Trains are very sparse on scanners.
Mostly you can just turn to a channel and pick up a plane.(Well not that easily) Can also pick up on Police frequencies.
Train frequencies in STL are usually in the 160.000-161.660 range. And as Geoff said you can scan over those few to many frequencies quickly.
BTW a scanner is not a two way radio. One can not talk into a scannner, but only listen
CoastStarlight99 Member # 2734
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What kind of things do you litsen to? Train conductors?
IM still not getting it.
A. pillsbury09@excite.com
UncleBuck44 Member # 2049
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Things to listen to: Detectors along the track which tell the milepost, trains speed, axles on the train. This is a nice feature while using a scanner on board a train(use headphones).
While a train is in a station you can listen to the engineer(who says very little), the conductor(who says quite a bit), and if its a refueling station or station where theres usually a lot of commotion, then you can listen to all of the workers say what theyre doing and how things are going.
While a train is moving and youre on it, listen in on Conductor to Engineer talks.
Fumes5 Member # 1437
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Coaststarlight99,
Here is a link to a scanner brodcasted live over the internet in the LA Area, you can here Metrolink, Amtrak, UP, and BNSF. Click on the "Listen-blahblahblah" (the blah being what media program you have). I listen to them up here in SF all the time, a great way to decide if you would like to own one. good luck and post a question if you need further explaination.
Bear in mind these tend to scan several channels in a busy area. Sitting on the California Zephyr through the Rockies, the scanner can be quiet for tens of minutes at a time.
Geoff M.
JONATHON Member # 2899
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I finally programed it! And it acualy gets L.A. Amtrak freq.s all the way Whitter!
------------------ JONATHON D. ORTIZ
[This message has been edited by JONATHON (edited 01-02-2004).]
Mr. Toy Member # 311
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By the way, just a reminder for new scanner users, Amtrak doesn't mind you listening in on their conversations, but you must use headphones so as not to disturb others. Plus, Amtrak doesn't like scanner users who blab what they hear to other passengers. Keep the information to yourself.
------------------ Trust God, love your neighbor, and never mistake opinion for truth. -Mr. Toy
Which scanner would you recommend for under $100? Under $150? Under $200?
Would Radio Shack be the most popular place to buy one?
Amtrak288 Member # 1967
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Radio Shack sells a perfectly good scanner for about $100 that I think might be programmable from a computer. Check out their web site at http://www.radioshack.com for more info...
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