[WIham] Fw: Fond du Lac Amateur Radio Club Scanner Presentation

[Mark Thompson]

  On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 14:48, 'Mike Miller' lists at kc9doa.com [SCAN-WIS]<SCAN-WIS at yahoogroups.com> wrote:       
Joe Scheibinger has arranged for a Skype video presentation by 
Jonathan Higgins, Sales and Media Communications
Manager for ScannerMaster. Quoted below is Joe's announcement.
The program is free of charge and open to the public.
Thanks for the bandwidth,
Mike kc9doa

"YOU ARE ALL INVITED!

Police Scanners in Review for the Fond du Lac Amateur Radio Club

On Monday February 8th, Jonathan Higgins, Sales and Media 
Communications
Manager for ScannerMaster, one of the world's one of the world's 
leading
companies in the sales of police and aircraft scanners, will be 
speaking
at the Fond du Lac Amateur Radio Club meeting located at the 
Moraine Park
Technical College in room A-112 at 7:00 PM. The general public 
is invited
and there is no cover charge. 

In the old days of police scanners, you purchased a "crystal" 
and placed
it in your scanner to hear the local police. Then came 
programmable
scanners where you just entered the frequency on a keypad. 
Today's
scanners are very different. You see practically every state, 
county and
city police and fire agency in the country have their own unique 
radio
system and/or radio frequency. Some cities and counties actually 
use
encrypted radio systems that cannot be monitored at all, 
including Orlando
for example. Other cities use complex radio systems that must be
programmed in a very specific way for your scanner to work. 
Scanners are
very complex. There's a big learning curve to understand how to 
set-up and
program a scanner for your specific area. Even the models that 
are
pre-programmed require effort to select the channels you want to 
monitor
and delete those not of interest. 

Jonathan Higgins is familiar with radios police use in the State 
of
Wisconsin and he will describe what you will need to enter the 
amazing
world of scanning. The need for an advanced scanner varies 
widely. In some
big cities such as Boston a basic scanner will work fine. But in 
Los
Angeles as well as the backwoods of Michigan, Colorado and other 
states,
you need a digital scanner. 

You can listen to much more than police and fire on a scanner! 
You can
monitor the local aircraft landing and taking off at your 
airport. You can
hear the engineers on trains as they enter your city. Many 
people have
listened to Russia’
s Mir space station, the 3 person Soyuz spacecraft,
and even direct transmissions from the space shuttle! Since the 
early
1960s weather satellites have featured APT 
–
 Automatic Picture
Transmission, a simple way to receive weather satellite imagery 
directly
from a satellite. There are a variety of commercial satellites 
which can
be monitored on a handheld scanner, most notably the ORBCOMM
store-and-forward data satellites. It
’
s even more of a thrill to listen
to an astronaut in space talking to ham radio operators on the 
ground and
absolutely amazing if you happen to be the one talking to the 
astronaut!

The presentation is open to the public with no cover charge. For 
more
information, contact Joe Scheibinger at 920-237-1450. "


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