[Scan-DC] Quest for a cheap digital scanner ; Re: China Netbook

[Blair Thompson]

I never throw anything, especially email. I found that I still had this in my collection.

How has your netbook been working out? For four days before Thanksgiving in 2011, CVS put its Sylvania netbook on sale for $59. I picked up two of them. One had to go back to the distributor, as it just would not boot. I must admit I haven't spent any time at all with them, as I have bigger fish to fry. I still have WinCE in mine. I am aware that a few Android systems that can be flashed to the device. All I have done is to update the system software, but I have not installed the one that fixes the YouTube glitch. One day at a time.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sylvania_smartbook/

http://www.sylvaniacomputers.com/product.php?id_product=41

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Greg Danes <danesgs1 at gmail.com>
To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Scan-DC] Quest for a cheap digital scanner
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:57:07 -0500

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

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