NYC SCANNING RESOURCE HANDOUT 2008

© 2008 by Ed Muro K2EPM

Live:

  • For the last 21 years every March in a small suburb of Philadelphia called Kulpsville there is a convention held geared towards shortwave listeners called the Winter SWL Fest. Each year they do have a forum dedicated to scanner listening. For more information visit: www.swlfest.com
  • Also, each year at the Dayton Hamvention the folks from the All Ohio Scanner Club usually have a table set up and participate in a scanning forum. www.aosc.org

Magazines: National Communications (www.nat-com.org), Popular Communications, and Monitoring Times all have several articles dedicated to scanning in each issue.

Internet Resources:

Local : For New York City scanning info, Charlie Hargrove has really got just about everything you will need on his website: www.n2nov.net

For info on Long Island go to: www.w2lie.net and if you have an interest in Northern New Jersey you might check out: www.bergenscanner.com

National : While it sounds derogatory, a group affectionately dubbed “the Scanner Scum” have a website with some useful information located at: www.scannerscum.com. I am affiliated with this group.

Quiet possibly the fastest growing and most useful scanning site on the Internet is: Radio Reference at: http://www.radioreference.com/

Radio Reference has online forums as well as a comprehensive database of radio system information, which is easy to look up by State and County. For those who subscribe to their premium service, you also have the ability to interface their database with third-party software and download system information right in to your scanner.

Manufacturers:

Uniden: www.uniden.com

GRE: http://www.greamerica.com/

Retailers:

Radio Shack: http://www.radioshack.com

Advanced Specialties out of Lodi, NJ: http://www.advancedspecialties.net/

Scanner Master: http://www.scannermaster.com

Grove Enterprises: http://www.grove-ent.com/

Universal Radio: http://www.universal-radio.com/

Hobby Radio Stop: http://www.bearcat1.com/

Software Developers:

http://www.starrsoft.com/

http://www.butel.nl/

Yahoo Groups: ScanCom, NNJ-Scan, and ScanConnecticut all cater to the Metro Tri-state region.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ScanCom/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nnj-scan/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scanconnecticut/

List Compiled by Ed Muro – K2EPM www.k2epm.com