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Who is the manufacturer of the scanner? Do you have the owner's manual? If not, I suggest you go to the manufacturer's website and see if they have a manual you can download.
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Hi Jonathon, I have the same scanner along with the SC200 that you can program with a PC. Try the link I have hear it is to the Uniden web sight. If the link does not work look under support and then the scanner modle. Let me know if this helps. Bill http://www.uniden.com/productsupport2.cfm?product=SC180BPosts: 41 | From: Milwaukee, WI USA | Registered: Nov 2002
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When I was in a hotel room in STL up high and right next to the yards in Downtown STL, you could hear for miles
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A scanner is like the auto-find function on your radio. It goes through all the frequencies until it finds a strong signal. However, it can scan a much wider range of frequencies than your average AM/FM radio (in fact mine does virtually everything EXCEPT AM/FM radio!). American railroads use upto 100 different channels - the best scanners can scan through all 100 in less than a second so you miss very little, if any, communication. However, you'll usually be tuned to one frequency at a time, at least for a few hours at a time.
Home scanners are receive-only. The ones the conductors carry are two-way. Don't buy one of those as you could transmit something unintentionally and land yourself in hot water.
Geoff M.
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Things to listen to: Detectors along the track which tell the milepost, trains speed, axles on the train. This is a nice feature while using a scanner on board a train(use headphones).
While a train is in a station you can listen to the engineer(who says very little), the conductor(who says quite a bit), and if its a refueling station or station where theres usually a lot of commotion, then you can listen to all of the workers say what theyre doing and how things are going.
While a train is moving and youre on it, listen in on Conductor to Engineer talks.
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Here is a link to a scanner brodcasted live over the internet in the LA Area, you can here Metrolink, Amtrak, UP, and BNSF. Click on the "Listen-blahblahblah" (the blah being what media program you have). I listen to them up here in SF all the time, a great way to decide if you would like to own one. good luck and post a question if you need further explaination.
Bear in mind these tend to scan several channels in a busy area. Sitting on the California Zephyr through the Rockies, the scanner can be quiet for tens of minutes at a time.
Geoff M.
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By the way, just a reminder for new scanner users, Amtrak doesn't mind you listening in on their conversations, but you must use headphones so as not to disturb others. Plus, Amtrak doesn't like scanner users who blab what they hear to other passengers. Keep the information to yourself.
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Radio Shack sells a perfectly good scanner for about $100 that I think might be programmable from a computer. Check out their web site at http://www.radioshack.com for more info...
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