Scanners 5: 5th Revised and Updated Edition

Scanners 5: 5th Revised and Updated Edition • The airwaves are buzzing with messages and this book provides useful and authoritative information on what equipment to choose • Covers the importance of antenna type and siting and how to get the very best from your system • Learn to tune into a wide variety of users, ranging from land-based walkie-talkies to orbiting space stations This latest edition continues the well-respected tradition of the Scanners series of books. It reflects the changing nature of radio communication and how, with readily available equipment, one can tune into all matter of two-way radio communications. Portable, mobile and base monitoring is detailed, as is how to tune into a wide variety of users using simple receiving equipment. Monitoring trunked and encrypted transmissions is also detailed, showing how these can also be received and decoded. Finally, the use of personal computers with scanners is covered in a comprehensive section, showing how this combination can allow many types of radio signals to be decoded that would not be possible by using a receiver alone.