Mobile Phone receiving comment as heard on 6PR

Post by **celestial_insight** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:19 pm

Any thoughts?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=38vwzOxJy5E

Post by **Toottoot** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:25 pm

Would that frequency be a microwave link? Sounds like he was talking about the relays but arnt they all FO now?

Post by **Bonez** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:28 pm

Somehow I don't believe that the microwave links are analog in any form at all.

I'm sorry but I don't think this guy really knows what he's talking about.

However, I will stand corrected if someone buys an AOR scanner and proves me wrong. Lol

Post by **vk6hgr** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:10 pm

Bonez wrote: I'm sorry but I don't think this guy really knows what he's talking about.

He said if you tune your scanner to "thirty thousand, one hundred" you hear phone calls. So the screen on the scanner says:

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30.100

Mistaking the . for a , and you have 30.1Mhz. The classic old-school analogue cordless phone frequency. These old phones are getting rarer (huge telescopic antennas are so 80s) but I suppose there's still enough around to provide a signal.

Post by **Bonez** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:27 pm

Oh, of course. The old analog phones. I thought he was talking about 30 gig digital links.

Yes, you'd be surprised what you can hear on 30.1 with a 27mhz station master antenna in your backyard. (Not that i've tried, but just what i've heard!)

edit: just listened to it again, and the guy did say "30 thousand megs" but I do know what he actually meant.

The guy is still a bit confused because he thinks it's mobile phones he can hear, not landline-based cordless phones

Post by **Toottoot** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:57 pm

Yes you just have to be careful with the inane ramblings of old people. we have some at work and they just go off on a tangent sometimes. Its not their fault though so you should still be nice to them.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:48 pm

I heard that guy too. Do AOR or Yupiteru even make scanners that do 30 gigs?