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On Monday, May 7, 2018 at 6:43:23 AM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 5/6/2018 8:43 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Sunday, May 6, 2018 at 8:10:15 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 6 May 2018 15:22:37 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 5/6/2018 3:05 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 6 May 2018 12:56:57 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 5/6/2018 12:08 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 6 May 2018 11:20:24 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 5/6/2018 10:34 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
Mr. Luddite wrote:

Describes the process:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/toughest-gun-law-america-120137258.html

Seems perfectly reasonable...

I think so too. The one thing I don't think they mention in the article
that would probably offend some is that when you buy a gun from a FFL
or privately (and do it legally) a record of that gun, it's model and
serial number is entered into a MA database so the state knows who owns
what ... again, assuming it was purchased legally. That's why I have
mentioned the chain of custody thing so often.

I recently bought a scanner mainly to monitor the recreational aircraft
that fly from a nearby airport. I also programed the local police and
fire frequencies in it as well. It's interesting that when a traffic
stop is made, the license plate (tag) and driver's license is radioed to
the dispatcher who checks to make sure registration and license is
current and for any warrants, etc. The dispatcher also reports back
to the cop who stopped the car if the person with that license also has
a license to carry. I didn't know they did that.

It is interesting that a scanner still works there. Cops are starting
to encrypt their feed and most are using frequency hopping digital
packet radio. My old Bearcat stopped working decades ago.

Some, like the MA State Police have used the freq hopping trunking
system for years but most of the smaller towns and cities still have
dedicated, assigned freq channels in the 400 to 500 Mhz UHF band. I
have my town, Plymouth and several other nearby towns programed and
receive them all. Bought a small UHF whip (only about 16") and mounted
it on the eve of the roof of the single story house. Works great.
Can hear both dispatch and the individual cop cars 5 by 5.

I guess they are more up to date here. The cops and fire went digital
in my county while I was still with IBM. I suppose there is still
something to listen to on UHF but my VHF scanner stopped being useful
decades ago. These days you really don't hear any voice at all on high
or low VHF most of the time but there is a lot of squalky stuff (I
assume some kind of digital thing). I haven't even turned it on for a
few years.
We do get the RSW approach on the internet tho and I listen to that
now and then. Since We can see the planes, it is somewhat interesting
for an aviation buff. Now that I am walking Deuce up on the power
line, too far from the house for my headset, it is not that handy but
when I was walking Ed out front it was pretty cool.
I keep thinking about getting a linear for my headset amp ... but that
would be wrong ;-)
I did buy an antenna sold to the drone guys that gets the range out
around 300' or more tho LOS. If I put it on the roof in back I might
get most of FPL covered. Right now it is in the front window so I
could hear when I was walking Ed.

If your old Bearcat is VHF only, you should still be able
to get the aviation freqs. VHF is 30 to 300 MHz and the
assigned aviation freqs are from 118-137 MHz.

The fire and police around here are UHF ... 300 to 3000 MHz.

I thought aviation was AM

It is. Has nothing to do with frequency band.

Beat me to it. :-)

Do you know why they use AM?

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