Publisher Description

The 'Scanners' series of books have been consistent bestsellers, being the UK's leading guides to receiving equipment employed by enthusiasts to monitor the short wave and VHF/UHF wavebands used by airfields, maritime and rescue services, and analogue and digital two-way private mobile radio systems. This new (seventh) edition covers the rapidly increasing trend towards digital two-way radio communications and the latest handheld and mobile/base scanners with some digital modes fitted. It has been fully re-written and updated to include the latest UK radio frequency listings and call signs for airports, maritime and emergency services and other professional organisations. The book covers the latest shifts in the hobby towards digital and PC- and tablet-controlled radio technology and illustrates the very latest commercial radio scanning equipment and accessories. Included are details of an increasing number of 'apps' for smartphones specifically for radio data decoding, including programs for digital scanner communications decoding for which a smartphone can be linked to an existing scanner radio to decode.Other innovations include TETRA as used by police, ambulance, fire and rescue services, and DMR modes such as Mototrbo. It is predicted that by 2016, fifty per cent of two-way radio communication in the UK will use digital modes.

Notes

This revised 7th edition covers the rapidly increasing trend towards digital two-way radio communications, and the latest handheld and mobile/base scanners with some digital modes fitted. Also includes the latest UK radio frequency listings and call signs for airports, maritime and emergency services and other professional organisations.

Author Biography

Peter Rouse was the pioneering guru of the VHF/UHF listening hobby. He wrote the first edition of Scanners for Argus Books in ... He was a professional broadcaster in the Channel Islands and also worked as a BBC radio producer. His interest in radio communications started in his early teens and he went on to work in the radio and electronics industry as an engineer and designer. Peter Rouse died in 1993. Bill Robertson is the UK's foremost writer on radio scanners, having had a monthly column in the national press for over a decade. He has acted as a technical authority on a wide number of communication aspects and has appeared on TV and on national and international radio broadcasts.

Table of Contents

What Can I Legally Listen To? Cautionary Advice. Confiscations. Digital Revolution in Two-Way radio. PCs, Netbooks and Smartphones. Understanding Radio. Receivers and Scanners - What Are They and What Do They Do? Antennas. Radio Systems Explained. Digital Two-Way Radio Systems. RT Procedure. UK Frequency Allocations. Satellites on Your Scanner. PCs and Smartphones with Your Scanner. Scanner and Accessories Review. UK Scanner and Accessory Manufacturers, Distributors and Retailers.

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