Scanner School - Everything you wanted to know about the Scanner Radio Hobby

In this session of the Scanner School podcast, we discuss the different flavors of EDACS Trunking. We cover EDACS Wide, EDACS Narrow, EDACS SCAT, EDACS-ESK, including AEGIS and ProVoice. In addition, we answer some listener e-mail questions and give suggestions on discone antennas, coax, and scanners that support EDACS-ESK. Session notes can be found at www.scannerschool.com/session9

LTR or Logic Trunked Radio Systems, is a trunking protocol built by E.F. Johnson in the late 1970's. While it is primarily used in my area for business radios, it is the old dinosaur in the trunking world. There are a few flavors of LTR Trunking.  This session focuses on LTR Standard and LTR-Net.  We discuss LTR Passport and LTR MultiNet very briefly. Be sure to join our facebook group for your ch...

Trunked Radio Systems are not difficult to understand one you know how they work. In this session of Scanner School, we talk about the basics of how Trunking works and will be focusing on specific trunk systems in the upcoming episodes.

Welcome to Scanner School Session 6 ( www.scannerschool.com/session6 ). We review 3 handheld and 3 desktop scanners that you can use now with what you have learned in Scanner School Sessions 2 - 5.

Today we talk about the more common analog modulation methods, AM, SSB (LSB & USB), FM, NFM, and WFB (WBFM). Session notes are at https://www.scannerschool.com/session5

We break down the differences between each and give examples of when each one might be used to communicate. Session notes are at https://www.scannerschool.com/session4

In Session 3, we discuss the differences between Carrier Squelch, Tone Squelch, Digital Tone Squelch, and what is a NAC. Show notes can be found at https://www.scannerschool.com/session3

In this session we talk about Frequencies and how we measure them in Hertz.

Welcome to the first session of Scanner School, a podcast by Phil Lichtenberger, W2LIE. In this episode, I'll introduce myself and talk about the goals of Scanner School and what you can expect in future episodes.