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I'm looking for frequencies of all kinds but at the current especially looking for state police and highway patrol mobile transponder frequencies. If you know any of these frequencies please let me know. I already have the Virginia frequencies. Thanks.

Amateur (HAM) Radio Links

The American Radio Relay League, Find out all you want to know about AMATEUR "Ham" Radio via this source.

www.qsl.net/ This site has a lot of great AMATEUR Radio Resources

Tucson Amateur Packet Radio known as tapr

QRZ Home page

Atlantic Ham Radio LTD

AMSAT The Amateur Radio Satellite Corporation

Scanner Links

Southwest Virginia Scanner Club

Bringing your Scanner to the Dayton Hamvention? Check out this page.

New to scanning or thinking about buying a scanner?

The question for a scanner is first, what are your interests, and what are you willing to pay for each interest.

It's like listening to broadcast radio,

You can get a little transistor AM radio for as little as $5 and if that's all you need you will be happy.

If you want to listen to true high fidelity sound you can spend hundreds of dollars to get the sound you want.

Here are the following scanner interests, I will list them by availability and price.

1. Police, Fire, Rescue, most public works, ham. (Non-trunked=conventional)

2. Civilian Aircraft Most scanners have an AM mode for AIR

3. Military Air, only higher end scanners have Military Aircraft frequencies.

4. Motorola trunking.

5. EDACS Trunking.

6. High Frequency scanning.300 KHz to 30 MHz AM

7. High Frequency scanning. 300 KHz to 30 MHz AM and SSB

I haven't figured out what to say yet about the new digital scanners.

There are a number of issues to consider there.

One thing is, I haven't heard anything about P25, does the digital scanners work with P25 digital?

I would expect them to.

Second and most important is that once a system goes digital it is so easy to go encrypted or just scrambled to a point that the average scanner can't follow.