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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: users of 390 - 420 MHz in Illinois
Message-ID: <3007@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 23-May-84 14:33:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 14:33:19 1984
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Just like to mention that I, for one, am glad to see the scanner frequency
information, no matter the geographic area, posted on the net. In regards
to this particular posting, this might be old news to those of you with
scanners, but many Regency synthesized models can be programmed out-of-band
simply by pressing the decimal point keypad before entering the frequency
while in "program" mode. This works on my K500, but either there is no
traffic locally (St. Louis) on the frequencies or at the times I've tried
this, or the scanner's RF circuits are not responsive out-of-band. (Probably
the latter -- I've tried scanning thru the CB band this way and got nothing, 
while there are many signals on CB coming in on a shortwave radio right
next to the scanner.)

Bearcat scanners can be tricked to respond out-of-band with complex
series of commands. These have been written up in Monitoring Times.

Will