Archive for the 'Reference' Category


Learning more about scanner hardware

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

If you’ve ever been a bit overwhelmed looking at scanner specs with analog/digital trunking I, II, and III (and IV) etc… you might find it worthwhile to visit radio-scanner-guide.com . In addition to covering the basics of the terminology and giving an idea of what the different specs are. (And what kind of [...]

Local Scanner frequencies

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

I remember when I was growing up that we had family that had a scanner and so we’d hear about it when there was an ambulance call up our road. We’d also hear about things before it was on the news (a lot of times little things that didn’t make the news.) Anyway, [...]

Podcast directory

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Of course, the face of radio and tv are changing…. once upon a time they were both transient mediums that couldn’t be revisited. A show played and you heard it or not, no second chances. Then came tape and you could record tv shows, or radio shows and people had access to a [...]

Broadcast Times UTC

Monday, January 9th, 2006

You’ll likely hear various references for UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), some refer to it as “Zulu”, others as GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). All basically refer to the timezone for the Prime Meridian which passes through Greenwich, in the United Kingdom. Most international broadcasts (over the air AND online) refer to the UTC time [...]

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