[Scan-DC] Thanks for the welcome.

[ka3jjz at netscape.com]

Last nite, Enrique schreibt:
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The BC 996 and 396 look like good
options when I do get ready to go though. I think it
was the 396 I was reading about yesterday that had 3k
memories. Three thousand! I'm having trouble making
banks to fill the 1k that my Pro 95 does. Maybe that
will change with time. Also kind of daunting as I'm a
Linux user and there are currently no programs written
for interfacing/programming scanners using the Linusx
OS. I use Knoppix and there are some cool ham radio
programs for it but no scanner programmers that I can
find so far. 
>
> Well, I guess we need to really burst your mind a little - the 396 has 
> 6000 (no that's no typo) channels (I suspect you were reading an old
> site about this mega scanner).  Yes, I can understand why you might 
> have trouble filling in all those channels!  But then I can easily 
> remember when we all thought 500 channels was a lot! Take a look at
> this link;
> http://www.radioreference.com/wiki/index.php/BCD396T
>
> As to software - yes, Windoze has the lion's share of the software, 
> but interestingly, there's a new tck/tl package for the 396 that 
> was recently released. It seems that the initial feedback has been
> very positive
>
I am working on banks for air shows in the DC area,
Mil Air monitoring, and local waterways. If anyone has
any freqs that I may not find online please let me
know.
> 
> Not to harp on this too much, but the PRO-95 won't do the UHF milair
> band (225-380 mhz); if you go over to the RadioReference Maryland 
> forum, you'll see a HUGE (yes, I do mean HUGE) sticky there for 
> milair stuff. There are several of us that can give you what you need
> once you get a radio that's capable there.
> There's not that many airshows in this area, sadly. However, there's
> a site (I'll have to get back here and post it - it's on the CHM
> website) that keeps track of many of them. I guess the big ones would
> be the Andrews show, as well as the Blue Angels flyover during 
> commencement week. More on those as the time draws near
>

73s for now...Mike KA3JJZ

Enrique KG6FHG

 

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