Online Radio and TV

One of the features I really like with the new GRE PSR-300 scanner that I’ve been testing is the signal strength meter. On the display there is a big S when your receiving a transmission followed by 0-5 bars to indicate signal strength. Why is this such a good thing. Well for [...]

This is going to be a long series. I am going to be spacing things out a bit and so I’m starting this post on January 1st. It will likely publish on the 30th. I’m going to delve into quite a few aspects of the GRE PSR-300 in greater detail in future [...]

When I was shopping for the GRE PSR-300 I noticed that a lot of places (including scannermaster.com) offer to program your scanner for you. Some, such as the greamerica.com site offer pre-programming for free for one county (and they sell it at a bit higher price.) Others will offer programming for around the [...]

One of the reasons that I was interested in getting this GRE PSR-300 scanner to review and work with was the possibility of tuning in the local amateur radio repeaters. I’ve been able to receive one thus far with the old scanner although I was barely picking it up. It is the repeater [...]

I was watching North Carolina Now the other day on PBS and it reminded me of one of the great treasures here in the Asheville area that, believe it or not, I haven’t YET visited. That’s the Southern Appalachian Radio Museum. Hosted on the campus of AB Tech here in Asheville. They [...]

OK – more links, I seem to keep turning up some good resources for electronics info/supplies/etc. First up is Datasheetarchive.com which is a great place to find information on salvaged or “just laying around” components. I’ve rarely visited the site directly, usually when I google a part identifier I find they’re one of [...]

For quite a while I’ve had a tendency to take a soldering iron to the pc board of ______fill in the blank______ electronics that has “expired” or outlived its usefulness. Sometimes, it’s just to salvage the REALLY large (scary) capacitors from a power supply, sometimes though it’s a bit more ambitious than that, (blocking [...]

I’m not sure now if I’ve mentioned them before…. (I’ve listed so many different sites that provide kits or supplies for amateur radio.) But… they deserve a second mention if they were lumped in with a list of others…. Hobbytron has a huge selection of electronics kits, supplies, gadgets and gizmos… as I was [...]

Yep, there are still more amateur radio equipment suppliers I haven’t mentioned, ranging from antennas and kits up to off the shelf transceivers, etc. and test equipment. Ham Radio Outlet is a fairly big name with all sorts of supplies from premade cables to off the shelf transceivers/scanners/shortwave receivers, antennas, etc. etc. Then [...]

Another good link for electronics kits is rainbowkits.com some of these are audio/radio related. I came across them looking at scanner antennas.