[Scan-DC] Quest for a cheap digital scanner

[Greg Danes]

Thought I might pass this on to those out there. I know this may be somewhat
off topic. I bought a 7 in china netbook awhile back and because it was so
cheap (80.00) decided to play with it. First I dumped the WinCE 6.0 OS for
the Android flash upgrade I found on the net. Understand that this is
reversable. I then went looking for a droid app for scanning. There are a
number of them out there, but I ran into a unique problem. Most of these
apps were configured for portrait mode on a droid phone. They don't work
that well with 7 in LCD's in landscape. I did find one called "Police
Scanner" by Momojoe. This fills the bill and has both US and international
lists to choose from. Suffice to say, I can now listen to all the channels
in the area for PD, Fire and EMS for the metro area that are digital
streams, not only that but with the sound recorder built in can record any
content if needed. Pretty cool stuff, and I can still surf the web, open
Office docs and generally have a neat small HAM device to carry in the field
for logging. These netbooks are being massed marketed all over and until I
ran across the various users that have remade the OS's on these I thought I
had a paper-weight. You can flash these with Linux, WinCE 6.0, or
Android.Next is getting Echolink on the thing!

Danesgs
KJ4DGE