PLA Radio # 15: Cordless Phones

[IMBR]

Great show, Brad.

Question - Exactly how hard would it be to find a scanner that picks up 900 hz frequencies?

[gangals]

Great show, Brad.

Question - Exactly how hard would it be to find a scanner that picks up 900 hz frequencies?

78.9% hard

Next question please.

[Nod]

Great show, Brad.

Question - Exactly how hard would it be to find a scanner that picks up 900 hz frequencies?

78.9% hard

Next question please.

Actually its 78.9365%.

I'm going to listen to the episode now.

[rbcp]

I'm sure they're on Ebay.  I wouldn't know which models to search for though.  The one I used for Dino is a Uniden Bearcat SC 150B.  You can also buy them from Candian companies.

Wonder if they'll ever lift the law against 800/900MHz frequencies since they're not important anymore.

If you've got hundreds of dollars to blow, I think a fun thing to scan for these days would be wireless video cameras.  A lot of people use them to monitor their yards and their babies.  But just like baby monitors, they leave them on all the time so you can watch and listen.  Here's a scanner I found for it:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=Icom+IC-R3&category0=

And here's a good article about it:

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7931

[Lestan Gregor]

I have the ic-r3. It's a pretty sweet wide band receiver, but the sensitivity is a bit low. If the antenna has too much gain or capture area it tends to overload too. I live in the downtown area and I ve found 4 or 5 cameras since I moved about 3 months ago. They're mostly convenience store security cams.

[Desmond]

Listening to the show right now, and my voice mail made it!

 

Awesome!! Go RBCP.

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I'm sure they're on Ebay.  I wouldn't know which models to search for though.  The one I used for Dino is a Uniden Bearcat SC 150B.  You can also buy them from Candian companies.

Wonder if they'll ever lift the law against 800/900MHz frequencies since they're not important anymore.

If you've got hundreds of dollars to blow, I think a fun thing to scan for these days would be wireless video cameras.  A lot of people use them to monitor their yards and their babies.  But just like baby monitors, they leave them on all the time so you can watch and listen.  Here's a scanner I found for it:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=Icom+IC-R3&category0=

And here's a good article about it:

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7931

We had a wireless setup at the store I used to work at for security.  Yes, a wireless signal that anyone can pick up for security.  Smart.  Anyway, one day we started receiving massive feedback and the picture was horrible.  I started playing with the receiver and found the car lot a few hundred feet away had installed wireless cameras as well and I could pick up their signal.  I was able to see exactly what their cameras could see.  The receiver had a couple built in channels I could switch and see a couple different camera angles.  Their signal was much louder than ours because we could barely see our own picture in the store.  I'm betting if you just drove around town with one of those flipping the channels you'd pick some stuff up.  Most people don't realize wireless is somehow able to be accessed by anyone.