Scanner School - Everything you wanted to know about the Scanner Radio Hobby

Latest Episodes:

095 - Working Around Simulcast Issues Oct 15, 2019

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In this podcast, I talk with our guest Nathan McMullin, who is the first repeat guest on the podcast and is an aviation major at Eastern Kentucky University. He shares today about combating the issues of simulcast, but in his own way.

If you remember from Nathan's first interview (link in the notes below) we talked about how to scan on a budget. This includes monitoring a P25 simulcast system.

Nathan is here to talk about how he is building upon that setup to be able to do more with it, and what he is doing to try to monitor a simulcast system with a Whistler 1040.

What You Need To Know

Updates on Nathan now and his current equipment setup.
Using Zello as a streaming tool.
What content is being streamed?
Time needed for setup for streaming.
Using Zello as a scanning tool.
Utilizing the Whistler WS1040 on the simulcast system.
Keys to working through the simulcast headaches.
Common issues with decoding.
Why laying the radio on the side helps.
More suggestions for combating simulcast issues.
Addressing issues from being between 2 sites.
Isolating talk groups with OpenMHz.

094 - National Communications Magazine Oct 08, 2019

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Are you curious about a wide gamut of hobby radio topics?

Have you wondered where you could find the most up-to-date info on hobby radios?

In this podcast, our guest Chuck Gysi, who is the editor of National Communications Magazine shares about National Communications Magazine and its role in the industry. He talks about the ins and outs of producing a quality publication that brings the best information from the hobby radio world.

All session notes with links to the items we talked about can be found on our website at www.scannerschool.com/session94

093 - Ask Scanner School v13 Oct 01, 2019

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Many of you have have been submitting their questions and today I am answering some of them.

If you have a question about scanning, please visit www.scannerschool.com/ask and leave us a message via SpeakPipe or the local number on our website. We'll play your message on next month's #AskScannerSchool

If you are a little shy, you can always use the contact form on www.scannerschool.com/ask or use #askscannerschool on Twitter

All session notes can be found on our website at www.scannerschool.com/session93

A big THANK YOU to our continued Patreon Supporters. www.scannerschool.com/support to see how you can help us. Some of the ways you can support us won't cost you any additional money!

092 - 10 Important Things Preppers Must Know About Scanning Sep 24, 2019

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What do preppers need to know about scanners?

Do you know what to do before the emergency?

What kind of scanners? How to set it up?

In this podcast, we walk through all you need to know in detail!

All session notes with links to the items we talked about can be found on our website at www.scannerschool.com/session92

091 - How to Scan Amateur Radio DMR Sep 17, 2019

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What do you need to know about Amateur Radio DMR?

Everything you need to know from getting your ID's to hardware to use. Our guest, Kenneth Fowler gives us some great insight into Amateur Radio DMR.

All session notes with links to the items we talked about can be found on our website at www.scannerschool.com/session91

090 - How to Properly Set Your Squelch Sep 10, 2019

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Here is a question that I receive often

How do I properly set my squelch?

In fact, it isn't always asked often enough, because sometimes I see radios where the squelch is set as high as it will go.

In today's podcast, I explain how to properly set your squelch.

All session notes with links to the items we talked about can be found on our website at www.scannerschool.com/session90

Bonus 01: What it takes to produce Scanner School Sep 03, 2019

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This is the "Health and Wellbeing" report of Scanner School.

Find out what it takes to put a podcast together, how it costs, and what I am changing to make the podcast easier to produce and better for you.

What are the additional future plans of Scanner School?

Listen to find out

089 - Ask Scanner School v12 Sep 03, 2019

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Many of you have have been submitting their questions and today I am answering some of them.

If you are a little shy, you can always use the contact form on www.scannerschool.com/ask or use #askscannerschool on Twitter

All session notes can be found on our website at www.scannerschool.com/session89

A big THANK YOU to our continued Patreon Supporters. www.scannerschool.com/support to see how you can help us. Some of the ways you can support us won't cost you any additional money!

088 - Consulting Call with Lou Carollo Aug 27, 2019

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Lou Carollo asked a question on last month's Ask Scanner School and by doing so, he won a free consulting call.

This is our conversation as I help him with his SDS100 and why he is having issues listening to certain talk groups on the amateur radio DMR network.

We also sort out some Sentinel issues.

If you would like to book a consulting session, please visit www.scannerschool.com/consulting

If you would like to ask a question for the podcast and enter to win a chance for your own free consulting call, please visit www.scannerschool.com/ask

All session notes with links to the items we talked about can be found on our website at www.scannerschool.com/session88

087 - GNU Radio with Ben Hilburn Aug 20, 2019

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Ben Hilburn is the project lead for GNU Radio.

What is GNU Radio?

GNU Radio is a free & open-source software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios.

Ben and I discuss what you can do with GNU Radio, why you might want to use it, and who else is using it and what they are doing with this software suite.

Don't forget to check out GRCon this September and Ben's new podcast, Signals and Bits on www.gnuradio.org

All session notes with links to the items we talked about can be found on our website at www.scannerschool.com/session87