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Decided to create a separate thread so as not to pester the CLMRN thread with all the questions I have on this specific topic.

I'd like to think my uneducated guesses on these aliases are usually correct, but history has shown they often are not I'm curious about the repeated use of "BU" in the aliases for control stations. My assumption is "Backup" but then again ...

Is anyone in Montgomery County still hearing Centerville Police Dispatch on Ohio MARCS-IP talkgroup 58160 (57 CVPD DISP) directly on a scanner?

Broadcastify Calls stopped showing new calls on August 31, 2026. The latest listed call is 7:10:58 a.m. local time that day:

Our fire department are staging to implement a new site. However, we were just notified that our receiver is on 151.160 and another fire department had a frequency change and thier trasmit is 151.2575. Being 15mile away our antenna is at 1770ft. and theirs is at 1440ft. Their license says 20 ERP which I know that has to be a typo they were erp 100watt ours is 150erp. Do we have ...

Since the introduction of the rFinder line of Android-based dual-band radios, I have been optimistically waiting for more companies to get into the Android/Ham radio fusion game. The rFinder products gave us a glimpse of what was possible, and it seemed like the ComJot CJ-1 was the manifestation of that possibility. In my opinion, it left quite a bit missing: The marketed promis...

Because of simulcast, my BCD436HP has problems with this system. I would appreciate reports/short recordings from users with either (or both) scanners listed in the title. If you have both models, I would ask how their reception of this system (and other things you scan) compares between the two models. I am aware of the added features of the 150, but does one model give better ...