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From: kevin.jessup <kevin.jessup@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: Cellular/Cordless phone privacy.
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 19:04:43 GMT

Just repeating a sig that I saw on the net recently (probably in
alt.radio.scanner).  Not sure if I got it exactly right...

      "Any radio waves you choose to send through my body are
         for me to use as I see fit!"

I kind of liked that one.  Any other opinions?

-- 
Kevin Jessup, kevin.jessup@mixcom.mixcom.com

        "Friends don't let friends run DOS."
                          -- Microware
From: fraserdt@unixg.ubc.ca (David T.S. Fraser)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Cordless phone freqs for the uninitiated?
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:59:24 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

Sorry to waste bandwidth for such a simple and basic question, but ....

What are the frequencies used by the various cordless phone manufacturers?
 I recall being able to listen in on my housemaster's conversations when I
was at boarding school on my european made/purchased portable stereo.
Since then, I have forgotten where I found it on the dial.

Thanks for any help you might provide.

David Fraser


-- 
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                       David Fraser | fraserdt@unixg.ubc.ca
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From: miles@ms.uky.edu (Stephen D. Grant)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Re: What is diff between BC200 and BC205?
Date: 7 Nov 92 00:55:38 GMT
    <1992Nov5.152118.16636@ms.uky.edu> <1992Nov06.140535.7545@mixcom.com>
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Kentucky, USA. -5 GMT

kevin.jessup <kevin.jessup@mixcom.mixcom.com> writes:

>In <1992Nov5.152118.16636@ms.uky.edu> miles@ms.uky.edu (Stephen D. Grant) writes:
>>I believe the only difference is the color of the case.
>>200 = black and the 205 = grey. is that right?

>My 200xlt came with a gray case, my 100xlt with black.

 I was talking about the radio case itself, not the imitation-leather
 carrying case. is that what you were describing?
 my (less than 1 week old) bc200xlt is made of black plastic (vs grey on
 the bc205xlt) and came with a grey carrying case.

>My wife does not like those "heavy looking" scanners.
>She ordered the pocket-sized "70xlt lite".  Kind of like the
>"Lady Remington".  It has all the features of the standard
>70xlt put comes in a soft pink pastel!

>-- 
>Kevin Jessup, kevin.jessup@mixcom.mixcom.com

>        "Friends don't let friends run DOS."
>                          -- Microware
From: metalj@concerts.EBay.Sun.COM (Jerry Watson )
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Re: To tattle, or not to tattle
Date: 9 Nov 92 22:52:14 GMT
Reply-To: metalj@concerts.EBay.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: concerts.ebay.sun.com



I believe that people ought to be rewarded for disclosing criminal 
acts, whether those seen with their eyes or heard with their ears.


It depends on the crime, and if its REALLY affecting you're life
or not. Oh golly geee I seen this person going 35 in a 30 mile
zone, QUICK CALL THE POLICE..... Its still breaking the "LAW""!!


My opinion

jw
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: mhk@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Mark Kaepplein x1517)
Subject: Re: Best of Transmissions...
Reply-To: mhk@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Mark Kaepplein x1517)
Organization: Interleaf, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 20:41:17 GMT

I've heard some pretty boring celular phone calls. I can't believe
people are paying such outrageous money to say such stipid things.
We really need to raise the speed limits so they can use more attention
on driving instead of finding things to occupy their minds. Friday
and Saturday nights are all the same. Between 10 and 12pm guys
(most cellular owners are men) have goofy, embarassing conversations
with their girlfriends. Later on I heard 900 number calls, and
finally guys calling "escort" services. One or two "escorts" even
had phones to get directions from the dispatcher for their next
appointment. The 900 calls were so lame that any curiosity I've
ever had about them were satisfied, and I never need to call.

Anyway, I did hear some juicy cordless phone conversations when
I lived in an apartment building. There was this woman somewhere
in the building who my (lesbian) roommate and I would hear sometimes.
Now, she would have pretty boring conversations with guys she was
dating and have boring conversations with friends about guys she
met, and have really, really boring conversations about church
and Jesus with her born-again friends. However, late at night,
after her (female) roommate went to bed, she would have very
much more animated, low, wispered, sexual conversations with a
woman in her company (but in another state). Her roommate never
had a clue about her good Christian roommate's secret life...

After several weeks of casual listening, my roommate and I had
figured out who they were, and made it a point to meet them at the
building's Christmas party. My roommate took particular delight
in this, dropping hints and code words and trying not to let any
overheard information slip. The roommate was cute, so I didn't
mind chatting with her in the mean time...

Some weeks later, the secret lover was flying into town (and the
roommate just happend to be away then too, what a coincidence!).
My roommate and I just happened to be having a beer in the lobby
when the two of them got back from the airport, and got to see them.

The mystery had been solved and we didn't do much listening after
that. Fun while it lasted, and a little sadistic pleasure remains
that the generally oppressive, homophobic Fundamentalists have a
few trapped in the closet...

Mark
From: droid@kerner.UUCP (Marty the Droid)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Re: Best of Transmissions...
Date: 6 Nov 92 15:43:30 GMT
Organization: The Kerner Company

I heard this on the Highway Patrol channel one night:

One unit was taking a prisoner to the clink and called back to the
scene to the other officer there:

"You see any marbles on the ground around this guy's car?"

"Just a moment, I'll look"
<pause of 20~30 sec>
"Nope, don't see any. What's up?"

"I think this guy's lost his."

"(Groan)"


Marty 'The Droid' Brenneis                      ...!uupsi!kerner!droid
Industrial Magician                                   droid@kerner.com
(415)258-2105     ~~~   KAE7616 - 462.700 - 162.2      ~~~      KC6YYP
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: cmorford@umbio.med.miami.edu (Chuck Morford)
Subject: Pro-31 Mods
Organization: Gene Police - Intelligence Division
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 04:08:26 GMT

I just got a Pro-31 from a friend and was wondering if there were any mods
for this thing....Any help is appreciated...

-- 
*****************************************************************************
* cmorford@umbio.med.miami.edu * "186,000 miles per second. Not just a good *
*                              *  idea, it's the law!"                      *
*****************************************************************************
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Whats between there?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:10:06 GMT

cscon0151@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
: aa519@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scotty Meredith) writes:
: > 
: > Nothing at all, with the exception of UHF-TV audio.  Channel 21 is at
: > 517.750 and the upper limit is channel 69 at 805.750.  If your city has a
: > Federal Government Printing Bookstore, You can order a poster for $3.50
: > that list the complete frequency alocation for the complete radio spectrum.
: > 
: > Scotty
: 
: I believe this is incorrect.  I'm reposting a list of users between 520-760Mhz
: in the Illinois area.  It was originally posted by Bob Parnass.

I think all these are either television stations or television repeater. If
so, then Scotty is right.

Bill
From: sprouse@n3igw.pgh.pa.us (Ken Sprouse)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Scaning before there were scanners (was Best of Transmissions...)
Summary: Ah yes the "good old days!" pre Bearcat
Date: 9 Nov 92 14:16:25 GMT
Organization: Sprouse Consulting, Oakmont, Pa.

In article <1992Nov1.145335.1948@anasazi.com>, john@anasazi.com
>(John R. Moore) writes:
> Keywords: 
> skip or could figure out what was happening. [Hint - some of us were
> scanning before there were scanners. This was heard on the car radio

My first "scanner" was a Motorola Twin V that had been retired from a
Yellow Cab.  I used it to listen to Pittsburgh police in the evenings
after school.  It only had one channel but that was ok because there was
only one repeater at the time.  Latter I got some GE Progress Line
receiver strips both Hi and Low band and an RCA Carphone.  At one time I
had them all mounted in a rack some powered off the AC line and others
from a car battery.  When they all got to talking at once it could drive
you up a wall. :-)  I tried various converters for the car radio but I
just couldn't stand anything that didn't have a squelch control.

Anyone remember when you had to decide if you wanted HI-Band or LO-Band
when you bought your scanner?  And if you said LO-Band you had to decide
which "split".  The radios would only span three or four megs of
frequency and maintain their sensitivity. So if you wanted to listen
to 33.86 and 45.50 you either got two radios or you got one tuned for
the middle and compromised.  And sensitivity was nothing to write home
about to begin with. :-)  Things have progressed just a little.  Bet if
I dig for a while in the basement I could still find some Progline
stuff.


-- 
Ken Sprouse / N3IGW          GEnie KSPROUSE   
Oakmont, Pa.                 Compu$erve 70145,426
sprouse@n3igw.pgh.pa.us      Packet radio n3igw@w2xo.pa.usa.noa
From: aa357@yfn.ysu.edu (Greg Ricker)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Harrisburg?
Date: 11 Nov 92 21:51:24 GMT
Reply-To: aa357@yfn.ysu.edu (Greg Ricker)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH


ONe of my friends is looking for a Harrisburg, PA list. If you have one
please E-Mail it to me.

Many Many Thanks
 
-- 
Greg Ricker  xx130@yfn.ysu.edu or aa357@yfn.ysu.edu (YFN Scanner Sig Sysop)
             am396@clevelan.freenet.edu  Cleveland Free-Net
             gricker@heartland.bradley.edu  Heartland Free-Net
             usr6032a@tso.uc.edu  Tri-State Online
From: miles@ms.uky.edu (Stephen D. Grant)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Re: Best of Transmissions......
Date: 8 Nov 92 05:15:17 GMT
    <1992Oct31.022101.6648@ulysses.att.com>
Organization: University of Kentucky, USA. -5 GMT

Hehe, I just heard a pretty good one:

patrol> unit xxx traffic stop
  disp> go ahead
patrol> license plate, WV peronal plate Thomas Ocean King Edward
patrol> license plate, WV personal plate- Thomas Ocean King Edward (TOKE!) haha

  Gee, I wonder if the reason they were pulled over was "swerving"? hmmm

 :)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: tvervaek@col.hp.com (Tom Vervaeke)
Subject: Re: 900 Mhz Cordless Phones out in Seattle
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:14:33 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

An article in the Monitoring Times a few months back spoke about the
Panasonic and the Tropez, both 900Mhz cordless. It basically said the
range of both is no better than the current batch of phones, and also
that the Panasonic is not scanner-proof at all. The Tropez was listed as
being digitally encoded and therefore there is no current way for the
average scanner buff to listen in.

Good Luck.



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From: metalj@concerts.EBay.Sun.COM (Jerry Watson )
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: BUGS
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:37:31 GMT
Reply-To: metalj@concerts.EBay.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: concerts.ebay.sun.com


What do scanners go for, and are they able to pick up bugs.


	Please let me know.

	Thx

	Jerry
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: rick@cs.sunysb.edu (Richard Spanbauer)
Subject: Re: To tattle, or not to tattle
Organization: State University of New York, Stony Brook
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:33:23 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.201912.26883@phx.mcd.mot.com> schuch@phx.mcd.mot.com (John Schuch) writes:
>This Favorite Transmission thread has made me curious.
>
>Suppose you were listening to cordless on night and heard a neighbor
>answer a call. In the conversation, the neighbor arranges for someone
>to come over and pick-up a small quantity of marijuana, say, two joints.
>Would you call the police?
>John

	One of the better questions I've seen posted!  

	My answer would have to be no, providing this is a habit he confines
	within his house.  Why?  We all have way too much government in our
	lives; having an agent of big brother looking over ones shoulder,
	a neighbor no less, is too much.  Look at it this way: say the guy
	found out that (hypothetically speaking) you were listening to
	cellular calls on your scanner.  Would you want him to turn you in?
	I don't do drugs (except red wine :-)) but I would argue none the less
	that the guy doing marijuana within the confines of his home is no
	more wicked than when "we" (alt.radio.scanner) choose to violate
	ECPA.  Rick Spanbauer, SUNY/Stony Brook
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: tvervaek@col.hp.com (Tom Vervaeke)
Subject: Re: neighbors & scanners
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:30:34 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division


I've never reported anything, but then I've never heard anything
serious. I'd have to think a while before doing anything. However, if it
involved children, or something really bad (in my opinion) I might just
act, i.e. I heard a neighbor talking about child molesting or something
like that. I hope it never happens...
From: petey@selway.umt.edu (Peter G Efroymson)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: scanner for sale
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:56:26 GMT
Organization: University of Montana

Scanner for sale--uniden mr8100
all standard banks plus air and 800
100ch/sec scan speed 
alpha nemeric/pc programming
just out of the box--college fees force me to sell!
200.00 firm plus you pay postage
This is my favorite radio of all those I have owened and it will kill 
me to part with it. But alas college gets more expensive every day!

send all replys to petey@selway.umt.edu
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio)
Subject: Re: To tattle, or not to tattle
Organization: Western Washington University
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 04:44:57 GMT

schuch@phx.mcd.mot.com (John Schuch) writes:

>Suppose you were listening to cordless on night and heard a neighbor
>answer a call. In the conversation, the neighbor arranges for someone
>to come over and pick-up a small quantity of marijuana, say, two joints.

>Would you call the police?

	Not unless I really had hate in my heart for him and his family
for some reason.   I can't imagine wanting to ruin a stranger's life, 
though, and in fact I can't think of anyone I harbor such feelings
for.  People get shot to death during no-knock police raids, sometimes 
people who have in fact committed no crime, felonious _or_ trivial. 

>I have heard such a conversation and recognized the neighbor. Since
>then, I have from time to time contemplated if I was right in not
>reporting it. I am not comfortable doing nothing, yet I am not
>comfortable assuming the role of the neighborhood snoop'n'squeel.

	You would be a rat.  If I knew a person who posted about
doing such a thing, and I knew the names of the people he informed on, 
I would want to inform them of his identity and physical address.
Were I to inform on such a person as yourself, I would in fact be 
doing the same thing as you would be doing with your first call.   Both 
are hypotetical situations of course.
(the main difference is that the second rat-act is retalitory)

	My response is based on these assumptions:	1) I don't
know the people and I don't bear them any ill will.  However, if I did want
to nail them for some personal or business reason, then I wouln't hesitate 
to use their stupidity of broadcasting confessions of criminal activity
to that end.

2)  There are serious, possibly even life-threatening, consequences 
which can result from an anynonomous accusation, esp. re drugs.  In Everett
Wa, last year, a mother was shot to death in front of her kids by
a masked cop during a no-knock.  She wasn't even one of the suspects,
just happened to be standing there when the door was kicked in.  The raid
was because her brother had been suspected of something, but police released 
him because they had been mistaken.   Even if her brother had been guilty
of something, it wouldn't make it any more ok with her kids or widower.

2) I don't see the activity as a crime, or any of my business.  I would 
not hesitate to inform on a thief, rapist etc etc, who confessed 
via the radio.  However, what people do with, and on, their own property 
is their business.  

Now you may say, "It's against the law, so it is wrong, and therefor
my duty to inform".  But I would have to ask you: is every law right?
Is every law worth being an informer for?
Would you be a rat on your neighbors for _any_ law that the men in DC,
your state capital, or your city hall, write? 

	What if you found out that your neighbor (or a stranger) 
has an illegal scanner?   Would you rat on him, just for kicks?  

Jim Del Vecchio
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl)
Subject: Re: How to go mobile in New York
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:47:45 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <Bx8BtH.G71@eis.calstate.edu> jherndo@eis.calstate.edu (John Herndon) writes:

>How about PRESS.  They should probably be able to carry scanners in their
>cars.  TO chase down that news story.
You may think they should be but in New York it is not enough just to be
press.  You have to have press credentials from the police.  

Easier and better just to become a licensed ham, I'd say.

Carl Oppedahl AA2KW  (intellectual property lawyer)
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY  10112-0228
voice 212-408-2578     fax 212-765-2519
From: worth@chester.ksu.ksu.edu (Jason Worthington)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Re: What is diff between BC200 and BC205?
Date: 9 Nov 1992 09:54:53 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: chester.ksu.ksu.edu

kevin.jessup <kevin.jessup@mixcom.mixcom.com> writes:
(stuff deleted)
>Speaking of colors...

>If I order a spare battery pack from Uniden or Metro West, will the plastic
>of the spare pack match my scanner?  I know I know: quit whining, it's not
>an auto-body paint job...just a spare battery pack! ;-)


>-- 
>Kevin Jessup, kevin.jessup@mixcom.mixcom.com

>        "Friends don't let friends run DOS."
>                          -- Microware
The battery pack on my 100XLT just died, and I purchased a new one from a local
dealer.  It is black and does not match the scanner itself.
-- 
Jason Worthington             
worth@matt.ksu.ksu.edu        
worth@ksuvm.ksu.edu
From: priest@akocoa.enet.dec.com (Ken Priest)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Re: Vtech 900dx Cordless Freqs.
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:00:32 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <BxIu0o.76v@eis.calstate.edu>, jherndo@eis.calstate.edu (John Herndon) writes...
>If you dont already know.. this cordless phone uses the 900Mhz range for
>transmit/receive on base/handset communications.  The frequency range is
>as follows:
> 
>Transmit Frequencies:
> 
>	Handset 925.5 - 927.4 Mhz
>	Base	905.6 - 907.5 Mhz  (All 20 Channels Found In This Range)
> 
>Receive Frequencies:
> 
>	Handset 905.6 - 907.5 Mhz
>	Base	925.5 - 927.4 Mhz  (All 20 Channels ")
> 
> 
>So, here is the basis of the new possible cordless frontier. 900 Mhz.
> 
>	==] John Herndon / JHerndo@eis.calstate.edu [==
> 
Xref: sparky alt.radio.scanner:2686 misc.legal:19845
From: furuta@cs.umd.edu (Richard Furuta)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Easily Modified?
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:00:46 GMT
Followup-To: alt.radio.scanner
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

In article <LINNIG.92Nov11133434@m2000.dseg.ti.com| linnig@m2000.dseg.ti.com (Mike Linnig) writes:
|The new anti-scanner law appears to make it illegal to manufacture/import a
|scanner that receives or can be easily modified to receive cellular freq's.  I
|believe it leaves it to the FCC to determine what "easily modified" means.
|
|How do you folks think "easily modified" will be defined by the FCC?
|
[...]
|
|Do you think Radio Shack will modify their design so that it fits the new FCC
|rules and can still be used to pick up cellular?  For example, they reprogram
|the microprocessor to lock out cellular, but a black market in clone (modified)
|microprocessors develops.
[...]

Well everything is speculation at this point, but that's what Usenet's good
at!  :-)

I would speculate that it will be sufficient to encase the diode array in a
block of epoxy.  Why go high tech when low tech will do?  Anyone else agree?

					--Rick
From: chow@plasma.icsl.ucla.edu (Elvin Chou)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Re: Whats between there?
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:53:43 GMT
Organization: University of California at Los Angeles, EE Dept.

In article <1cua23INN4vi@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa519@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scotty Meredith) writes:

>
>[Other Stuff Deleted]                                  If your city has a
>Federal Government Printing Bookstore, You can order a poster for $3.50
>that list the complete frequency alocation for the complete radio spectrum.
>
>Scotty

Now I was wondering how to refer to the poster when going to the government
bookstore.  Does anybody know of a title, or catalog number or something
that I can identify this particular product.  Thanks.

---Elvin Chou
   chow@plasma.icsl.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu (Mike McNarney)
Subject: Pro-43 mod
Reply-To: twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:22:14 GMT

I need the copy of a mod that is meant to think the user is adding the
cellular band, when in reality he is doing something bad to his radio.
I need this because an 'acquaintance' (I hate to even call him that) 
on my dorm floor was admiring my scanner the other day, and asking what
brands were good, what models I liked, etc. For a handheld, I recommended
a Pro-43. Lo and behold, tonight he proudly showed me the floor model he
just got done shoplifting (along with a 10-ch pro-41, I think it was). Since
the law might be changing soon, he wants me to get him the cellular mod. 
As I am against such behavior, I thought this might be an appropriate way
to 'make him pay.' Any responses are appreciated. 

Thanks,
twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu
From: johna@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (John Allen)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Request for Cellular Mod: BC 950XLT
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:42:04 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA

I've settled on the Uniden Bearcat BC 950XLT for my scanner purchase.
Could someone post the cellular mod for this scanner please?

Thanks in advance
John Allen
johna@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner