HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jdkirby@icaen.uiowa.edu (John Douglas Kirby)
Subject: Re: The Uniden MR8100-What the hell is it?
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:01:52 GMT
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa

In article <gregs.2aj6@hotcity.COM> gregs@hotcity.COM (Greg Stramback) writes:
>In article <drw-101292163351@129.193.144.161>, drw@esl.com (Dave Waters)
>writes:
>>In article <gregs.28po@hotcity.COM>, gregs@hotcity.COM (Greg Stramback)
>>wrote:
>>
>>> I am dying to know if this radio has a large flat front display.
>>
>>Yes it does and since the State of California was involved in the specs for
>>it, it is likely the one you've seen.
>>
>>> Actually, I think it's a good idea that the
>>> state got these scanners for the CHP, since most don't have enough brains to
>>> program a scanner on their own.
>>> 
>>> greg
>>
>>What leads you to this? Why should a law enforcement officer have to be
>>proficient in radio? Many CHP officers carried their own scanners prior to
>>the MR-8100 being available to them. They had the brains to figure them
>>out. I take it you have a bone to pick with the CHP?
>>
>>------------------------
>>Dave Waters       WA6AWZ
>>drw@esl.com
>>73277.311@compuserve.com
>>------------------------
>well, actually, i have never met a CHP officer with 1) any type of likeable
>personality, since they all have had some sort of attitude problem (and i'm not
>biased, since i've met plenty a san jose pd officer and sherriff officer that
>have very likeable attitudes, and run-ins with plenty CHP officers, about 10 or
>so, and only one didn't seem to have an attitude problem. 2) any decent amount
>of intellectual ability, aside from the ability to call me "boy" and get upset
>at me for calling fire to the scene of an injury vehicle accident, before he
>even knew if there were injuries or not (which there were, and no, there have
>been several incidents like this one, it wasn't a one time thing).
>
>anyway, i was interested in the MR8100, and would like to know also if 1) the
>unit can be programmed via the front panel (if i remember the brochure i saw,
>it couldn't)  2) does it have CTCSS capabilities, and 3) is Uniden planning on
>a receiver with the ability of tracking trunked radio fleets.  (haha, in my
>fantasy world).
>
>greg

I have designed a scanner for my senior design project and would like to
add the capability to track Motorola's trunking radio systems. I have
talked to a Motorola rep and the signal is 3600 baud, QPSK-C (quadrature
phase shift keying), using the SMARTNET-II protocol. However he was
evasive about where I can obtain a copy of this protocol. (proprietary
info - shades of Apple computer). Does anyone in netland no where I can
get a copy of the SMARTNET-II protocol???
Any help would be appreciated.
Please post replies to the net because I am not sure of my e-mail 
address yet.
Thanks

John Kirby BSEE
From: PLAWS@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Re: New Uniden Product?
Date: 17 Dec 1992 11:48:52 -0600
Organization: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

On Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:42:17 GMT you said:
>In article <1992Dec14.234417.7387@newstand.syr.edu>,
>wsmiddel@rodan.acs.syr.edu () writes:
>
>  > ...   Uniden  said the device is not a radar detector, but a sophisticated
>  > programmed mobile  scanner/ receiver that responds to radio waves emitted
>from
>  > special secondary transmitters, which have been installed in most highway
>  > patrol vehicles recently...
>
>
>translation: mobile extenders

>
>Uniden already makes a few radios like this -- a scanner

Someone else had the idea a few years ago but called it a "CHiPs
Detector".  As I recall, it lit up and beeped whenever it heard something
on CHP's mobile extender frequency.  Pretty low-tech but the marketing
guys made it sound Zowee!  I hope they have right freqs in the ROM...


Peter Laws,
Associate Editor (Arkansas)
RCMA _Journal_

Peter Laws              |"The '90s are gonna make the '60s|   pcl@engr.uark.edu
n5uwy@ka5bml.ar.usa.noam| look like the '50s"--D. Hopper  |plaws@uafsysb.bitnet
From: rja@newbirth.Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Allen)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Re: ICOM ICR1 Performance
Date: 18 Dec 1992 21:05:21 GMT
Organization: Sun
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: newbirth

In article <1992Dec18.170643.17477@netcom.com> drp@netcom.com (Randy Petersen) writes:
>ICOM ICR1 100khz to 1.300 ghz Receiver
>
>I saw one of these receivers at a radio store (Quements) yesterday.
>I was quite impressed with the physical feel and quality of the unit.
>Does anyone have any experience with this receiver ? I am currently
>looking at the AOR 1000XLT , AOR 1500, and this unit the ICR1.
>I would like any assessments GOOD or BAD on these units.
>Issues are ...
>
>1. Number of channels and how they can be used etc.

    R1 has 100 memory channels, 10 scan edge pairs, and one
    pair of memories used to denote a memory scanning range.
    Compared to a scanner, many button presses are needed, and
    you will spend a lot of time with the manual learning
    how to use the different scanning modes.

    Some modes I recall off hand are: scan memory range, scan
    frequency range, scan memory range but only those mems which
    are AM, or FM, or WFM, scan memory range but skip masked
    channels, etc.

    The last 10 memories are used in auto memory write mode, when
    you scan a freq range and write active frequencies to memory
    automatically.
>
>2. Sensitivity and Selectivity issues.

    Good sensitivity, rotten selectivity.  This affects scanning
    negatively
>
>3. Robustness of audio output and stability of squelch eyc.

    R1 audio is best described as barely adequate.  Ok for
    portable use, particularly w/ headphones, but for stationary
    use a plugin portable speaker is a must have.

    Squelch seems to work just fine.
>
>4. Larger batteries, battery life, etc.

    R1 internal batteries only last about 3 hours max.  Adding
    an external battery pack makes it longer, but still a
    manageable size.  Battery packs from ICOM are overpriced,
    but supposedly after-market Peripherex batteries are the
    same quality and half the price.  You can also run off of
    12V DC external power.

    My R1 pack (in a pelican case) is: the radio, a BP-??? AA
    battery pack unit, an ICOM cigarette lighter plug adaptor,
    wall charger, earphone, external speaker, 3 antennas,
    and fused 12V battery adaptor.
>
>5. Other usibility issues.
>
>6. Good pricing in the San Francisco Bay Area or Mail Order.

    Local outlets which may have the R1 are Ham Radio Outlet
    in Sunnyvale, and Scanners Unlimited in San Carlos.  For
    mail order (cheaper) places, check a current issue of
    Monitoring Times or Popular Communications, available at
    Ham Radio Outlet or Tower Books.  I think they are available
    mail order for $439.00
--
Robert Allen, rja@sun.com		DISCLAIMER: I said it, not my company.
		    Samuel Addams: Brewer, Patriot.															        "The right to brew beer is the right to be free!" - me
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: gah@controls.ccd.harris.com (George A. Hebert)
Subject: Monitoring Times
Originator: gah@rs2
Organization: Harris Controls
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:10:30 GMT


Would someone please post the address and/or phone#
for Monitoring Times. I can't find it locally.
Also does anyone know which issue has the mods for
the BC855XLT.

Or would someone be kind enough to post the mods.


Thanks in advance
George Hebert


Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: thieleke@icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeffrey Ray Thieleke)
Subject: Re: Crystal mod probs with the 2007-Help!
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:29:14 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19

>Well, the unit did work for a little bit, and I did notice that the unit was
>faster (no actual measurements, the 'beep' was at a higher pitch) and then it
>locked up!  No remedies worked after that (16.257Mhz reinstalled, unit powered
>down then on again).  But it DID work until the '3' key was pressed, and then
>that was it.

>Only the Scan indicator and the "ch" indicator come on now.  Please tell me the
>CPU isn't blown....  I can't afford a new 2006 now.....


The problem only occurred when you pressed the 3 key?  Check the connections 
around the CPU, they are very small, and you might have accidently shorted two
together.
 
I kinda doubt you ruined your CPU, it is a lot tougher than you might think.
Even if you did ruin it, you can buy a replacement for about $30, a lot cheaper
than a new 2006!



Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: brett@surfpix.princeton.edu (Brett Borowski)
Subject: Uniden Addresses and Phone #s
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:10:40 GMT

Here are addresses and phone numbers for Uniden Parts and Uniden Customer
Service.  Service manuals (for the BC200xlt, for example) should be
available one number of the other--I don't remember which one I called
to order my BC200xlt manual.

Uniden Parts Dept.			Uniden Customer Service
9900 Wespoint Dr.			9900 Westpoint Dr.
P.O. Box 50463				P.O. Box 501368
Indianapolis, IN 46250			Indianapolis, IN 46250
317/842-1036				301/842-2483

(Jeez, I should have asked for a commision on service manuals!  :)

Brett

-- 
brett@surfpix.princeton.edu		(Finger for more info...)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: brian@ganglion.Canada.Sun.Com (Brian Onn - OpCom Staff)
Subject: Re: PRO-37 Light mod?
Organization: Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:07:16 GMT

In article <9DEC199210584627@elroy.uh.edu> st1r8@elroy.uh.edu (Guillot, Burt J.) writes:
>That's weird ... My PRO-37 light stays on *only* when I hold it down.  I
>don't even get any 12-15 seconds you're talking about.  I let it go, the
>light turns off.

Mine too... it's a real drag, since I *always* have my scanner
plugged into some other power source, and listen and night alot. 
I wish it had a backlit keypad as well (like cellular) so that I
could see what I was pushing :-)

I'd like to see a mod to keep the light on...

Brian.

--
_____________________________________________________________________
Brian Onn.                  Internet : Brian.Onn@Canada.Sun.Com
Operation Commitment,	        Uucp : uunet!sun!suncan!brian
Product Support Specialist.    Voice : (416) 477-6745.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: drw@esl.com (Dave Waters)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Re: VHF Low Band Skip
Date: 18 Dec 92 00:16:39 GMT
Followup-To: alt.radio.scanner
Organization: ESL Inc.

> In article <1992Dec13.060528.11279@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
> Kirk.Smith@launchpad.unc.edu (Kirk Smith) writes:
> >
> >Recently, I heard some skip on 154.160, a statewide CDF freq.  Looking
> >through a statewide map, I'm unable to locate the cities mentioned,
> >so maybe someone out there can help.

154.16 is a statewide Calif Office of Emergency Services (OES) frequency.
Wouldn't surprise me if some locales used it as a local frequency, but
generally it's used for OES coordination between agencies. They do a daily
radio check in the morning sometime. The repeaters are pretty high level.

------------------------
Dave Waters       WA6AWZ
drw@esl.com
73277.311@compuserve.com
------------------------
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: gpmh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Patrick Hurley)
Subject: Tandy Bashing
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
Distribution: USA 
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:09:45 GMT

First my question:

     Does anyone know of an address and/or name for the Tandy
corporation where an unhappy customer can send a complaint??

Now my complaint:

     It wasn't that long ago that I watched all the Tandy
bashing that was taking place on rec.radio.amateur.misc.  At
the time I read all of the posts and continued to do business
at Radio Shack because they did carry some products I was
interested in and up until recently, their most annoying
habit was to ask for the last four digits of my phone number.

ALL OF THAT HAS CHANGED!!!!!

     I now agree wholeheartedly with many of the opinions
that were expressed here.  I recently had the privilege of
visiting a local Radio Shack and receiving assistance from a
rude, unprofessional, discourteous, and technically
incompetent salesperson.  The mere fact that this person was
incompetent did not bother me as much as the fact that he
insisted on proving it to me in a rather boisterous fashion.
All of this in front of a co-worker and a store full of
people.... at no additional charge!!!
     After considering the situation for some time, I
returned to the store to make the manager aware of my
displeasure.  To my amazement, the manager did not respond
and he actually walked away and answered two lengthy phone
calls in the middle of the discussion.  Needless to say, I
will not return to that store again and I am seriously
questioning if there is any reason to ever go to another
Tandy store.  I would hope that this behavior is not
indicative of the Tandy corporation as a whole, but there
does appear to be some evidence that this type of behavior is
quite prevalent.  I now believe that is in my best interest
to stay away from Tandy and I am inclined to offer the same
advice to fellow hams.
From: craigc@hotcity.COM (Craig Cutright)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: XLT200....huh?
Date: 19 Dec 92 16:09:15 PST
Organization: BBS

I am looking to buy a XLT200 and am looking for the best price.  Someone
mentioned that they saw one advertised by a business called "Tower" for $209. 
Does anyone have the number or address for this business or know of a supplier
who can compete with this price??
 
Craig Cutright
CraigC@Hotcity.com
From: cscon0151@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Re: Crystal mod probs with the 2007-Help!
Date: 14 Dec 92 12:36:03 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

Thanx, to all responded to my 'distress' post.  Fortunately the problem has
corrected itself.   Evidently by not leaving the unit plugged in (to AC)
for a couple of days somehow allowed the CPU to reset.  I didn't even lose
any memory!  The only casualty was a low battery!  Thanx again!

Later...

Brad Steinman
University of Toledo Computer Services
cscon0151@uoft02.utoledo.edu
From: jpotts@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (John Potts)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:51:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Monitoring Times
Organization: HP Stanford Park - Palo Alto, CA
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner

The address is:

	Monitoring Times
	P.O. Box 98
	Brasstown, NC., 28902-0098
	1-800-438-8155
From: plaws@uafhp.uark.edu (Peter Laws)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: RCMA People!
Date: 18 Dec 1992 13:29:36 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I maintain a list of "RCMAers on the Net(s)" list.  If you are not already
on the list and would like to be, mail me and I will add your address.  I
will also send you the current version.

Peter Laws,
Associate Editor, (Arkansas),
RCMA _Journal_

Peter Laws              |"The '90s are gonna make the '60s|plaws@uafhp.uark.edu
n5uwy@ka5bml.ar.usa.noam| look like the '50s"  --D. Hopper|plaws@uafsysb.bitnet
From: josephs@msen.com (Joseph Stroup)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Uniden BC-100XLT
Date: 13 Dec 1992 03:15:55 -0500
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.msen.com

Uniden Scanner model  BC-100 XLT for sale.
Includes case and charger. Asking $130 firm. you pay
ups , will ship cod cash only. first com, first sold
basis only. e-mail me at  josephs@heifetz.msen.com
No manual.

-- 
Joseph Stroup          | Still trying to work
                       | and Play well with Others.
From: RPH0470%TNTECH.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Richard Hosker)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Re: VHF high-band skip
Date: 13 Dec 1992 21:51:37 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Funny you should mention it...high-band skip has been giving some of the
local agencies fits recently.  The Putnam County Rescue Squad uses 155.955;
once the sun goes down, some police department in south Alabama somewhere
blows the frequency away.  (They never ident, by Morse or otherwise, so I
don't know who it is.)  Their signal is actually stronger than that from the
local transmitter.  The rescue squad uses PL on their radios, so the skip
is only audible to them when they're trying to talk to each other through it.

The Cookeville Fire Department has it even worse.  They share 154.415 with
Cave City, Kentucky; when the weather is right at night, Cave City comes in
clear as a bell.  Since the CFD *doesn't* use PL, they do hear the skip; it
often wakes the chief up out of a sound sleep when Cave City pages their units
out.

I have also heard skip during daylight hours on 160.365, from a Conrail
transmitter near Terre Haute, IN, to Cookeville.

The last anecdote I have isn't exactly skip, although it could be aided by
atmospheric ducting.  The helicopter unit of Nashville Metro PD uses
programmable FM sets in their aircraft; the crews program a different
"talk-around" frequency every night so the supervisor can't hear their
conversations.  One of their favorites for some reason is 153.800, which
happens to be the input to the TTU campus police repeater.  It's not just
random crackles, either; they come in as if they were directly over the
antenna.  When the helo jockeys are working, all the Tech cops can hear is
turbine howl, blade noise, and some of the most obnoxious remarks I've heard
on any high-band frequency in years.  (Decorum prohibits posting some of
them here--perhaps in alt.tasteless... :-/ )

(For the equipment-minded among us, all of the above were received on an
unmodified BC200XLT with a Maxrad rubber-duck antenna designed for 152-164
MHz.  This is a great antenna, by the way; it receives high band as well as
the 18" magmount whip I used to use on my car.)

On a completely different question, does anyone out there have any info to
share regarding the Metro West BC200-compatible battery packs someone recently
mentioned here?  If they're significantly better than the stock packs, I
could use a couple.  Please e-mail within the next week, as Tech will be
cutting off my account after December 19.  Thanks!


==============================================================================
Richard Hosker          : ttttttttt  Tennessee Technological University
rph0470@tntech.edu      :   t u t u  Cookeville, TN
PO Box 6083 TTU         :   t u t u
Cookeville, TN 38505    :   t uuuuu  "Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away!"
==============================================================================
Disclaimer: After this many years of college, these opinions are among the
few things Tech *hasn't* taken from me yet.  ;-)




Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: drp@netcom.com (Randy Petersen)
Subject: ICOM ICR1 Performance
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:06:43 GMT

ICOM ICR1 100khz to 1.300 ghz Receiver

I saw one of these receivers at a radio store (Quements) yesterday.
I was quite impressed with the physical feel and quality of the unit.
Does anyone have any experience with this receiver ? I am currently
looking at the AOR 1000XLT , AOR 1500, and this unit the ICR1.
I would like any assessments GOOD or BAD on these units.
Issues are ...

1. Number of channels and how they can be used etc.

2. Sensitivity and Selectivity issues.

3. Robustness of audio output and stability of squelch eyc.

4. Larger batteries, battery life, etc.

5. Other usibility issues.

6. Good pricing in the San Francisco Bay Area or Mail Order.

Thanks
Randy Petersen
ATS Inc.
2801 Moorpark Ave.
San Jose Calif. 95128-3103
From: kmeyer@amiganet.chi.il.us (Karl Meyer)
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
Subject: Pro 2006 mods
Date: 20 Dec 92 01:30:26 CST
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

I just got my Pro 2006 (thanks for the info leading to this choice people) and
have already done the mod to get all teh frequencies. I was wondering if any of
you have done that mod to give 6000 more channel memory spaces. I'm refering to
the one in the Scanner Modification Book 1 and 2. If so does it work? I'm not
afraid to dig into the innards to do some of this stuff but I don't want to be
the guinea pig for it either. I'd also like to do the center frequency
indicator, the search and scan to memory, the scan speed increase (only if it
works with the previous one though), and a digital s meter. I'll be adding the
line surge protection this week since I know it won't hurt anything.
Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: richard@crowded-house.den.mmc.com (Richard Armstrong)
Subject: Re: MaryMac
Organization: Martin Marietta
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:13:42 GMT

I seemed to have misplaced the 800 phone number for MaryMac. Could anyone
either email it to me or followup here please?

Thanks

-- 
My company never said any of this... I didn't either.
Richard Armstrong, Software Engineer, Martin Marietta
Email->>>> richard@crowded-house.den.mmc.com <<<<-Email 

Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
From: riyadth@boi.hp.com (Riyadth Al-Kazily)
Subject: Re: Are there any?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:57:18 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company / Boise, Idaho

In article <vqbr1_p@lynx.unm.edu> arny@vesta.unm.edu (L Alan Dye) writes:
>I've been searching high and low for mods for a Pro-36, with no success.
>It seems very similar to the '37 '38 and '43, but I'm not sure. (I have yet
>to go buy the tech manual for it...).

From what I've seen, the Pro-36 is not similar to these other models.  It
may be similar to the Pro-42 (notice that the frequency ranges are similar
except that the Pro-36 adds Air band, and also note that the earphone socket
is in the same place on top of these units).  I have wondered if there are
2 distinct families of RS scanners, those that start at 29MHz, and those that
start at 30MHz.  They all seem to fall into one of these two categories.

The Pro-38/Pro-41 and Pro-35 are made by Uniden (same as BC50XLT/BC55XLT and
BC100XLT), and the Pro-39 and Pro-40 are made by another manufacturer (who's
name eludes me at the moment).  The rest of the current lineup (the Pro-42
and Pro-36) are completely unknown to me.

I too am very interested in the similarities between different models.  I
have just ordered the service manual for the Pro-2025 mobile scanner (same
as Uniden BC560XLT), hoping that it will give me hints to more mods for the
Pro-38/Pro-41.  The trick seems to be learning what all the pins on the
internal microprocessor are for.

If anyone out there knows of scanners based on similar processors or other
circuitry, please post what you know.  More info means more mods!

			-Riyadth Al-Kazily
			 riyadth@hpbs1904.boi.hp.com

-- 
{ Riyadth Al-Kazily  riyadth@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com riyadth@hpbs1904.boi.hp.com }
{ (208) 323-4987         | When am i going to have time to use all this     }
{ Boise, Idaho           | stuff I'm collecting?  More important, how can   }
{ DoD #295  1983 BMW R65 | I get more stuff?  Amiga 500+ (+ stuff, that is) }
From: tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:57:50 GMT
Subject: Re: AM filters
Organization: the HP Mtn.View Resp. Cntr.