WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

Hello vk6hgr, Yeah, thank's for the info on the 'Access Antennas' ... yeah, basically that's what I'm after the C-Band ... I just want to get the broadcast from Indonesia (Palapa-D satellite) just catching up with the TV shows and news over there. As with the receiver and the tracking mechanism ... ...

Hello all, Does anyone know some information about satellite TV ? I have seen plenty of people have these big satellite dishes on their backyards (their reflector usually made of a black mesh kind of metal so they look transparent from the distance ) ... How do they work and why those TV channels ar...

vk6hgr wrote: The hard part about using the more exotic coax cables though is finding matching connectors.

Aha ... ! Of course ... the connectors have to be as big as the cables themselves ... !
Imagine using an LMR-1700 Coax ... to a handheld transceiver using an SMA connector ...

Hello all, I'm researching about Coaxial cables ... I just had a look at this wikipedia page and there is a big list of all sorts of coax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_cable My question is : Can I use any coax ( say for transmitting or receiving in 2m Amateur Band ) as long as they are 50 Ω i...

Blinky wrote: I'd rather have this

http://www.signalhound.com/

a more expensive toy for playing around

Hello Blinky, I had a look at the Signal Hound website ... the device is massive isn't it ... It looks more sophisticated and definitely more expensive ... Thank's for the link ...

Yeah, I just download and tried the inSSIDer ... impressive ... especially for a freeware ... Open Source too ... that's even better ...
What do you use it for ? Just to play around or is it anything to do with your work ?

http://www.metageek.net/

What do you think ? I think it's pretty cool ... but expensive for a toy for playing around ...

Thank's for that :smt023 That's a pretty similiar kind of website shop but also as cool ... I bought my Diamond SG7500 from the one I mentioned and I am really satisfied with it ... It's a pity that they don't have the whole range of Diamond Products for sale ... but pretty eclectic online shop ... ...

I found some interesting bits and pieces here ... not badly priced too ...

http://www.409shop.com/shop.php

I think you can if you are a superhero ... or at least in a superhero costume (eg. just like Kick-Ass, Batman or Superman) ...

When I bought my first scanner ICOM IC-R6, turned it on and press 'SCAN', Channel 3 UHF CB is the first frequency it picked up ... :smt084 ... It took me a while to figure out what that frequency is all about ... I heard someone playing music so I thought it was a narrowband broadcast station but th...

I heard this on WIA News last Sunday (Yesterday) ... I thought that he won the case and get to keep the antenna on ... < Please correct me if I miss heard it ... >

I was reading the reviews on the Unadilla dipole antenna http://www.unadilla.com/?p=36 , and found this comment on how this guy (VE2DC) blew up those 40 meters traps ... How could he blow up traps ? Aren't traps just a piece of wire wound around a plastic tubes ? http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/9...

Its a CB term that is slipping into amateur radio it means just listening to a conversation. Personally I don't like it along with "on the side" and "handle" should stay on CB Really ... ? Handle is a CB term ? ... :D I was talking to an amateur in Malaysia via the Fremantle rep...