Not too much happening in the scanner world lately. My anticipated blog about re-purposing your old android phone for a Uniden Remote scanning head came to an abrupt halt when I shattered the screen of my Galaxy Note 3. I will be revisiting that once the android app is released. Speaking of that, here is the latest Uniden update:
Clock Battery fix (not firmware): No word from Uniden
Android App: No word from Uniden
Screen dimming on the x36 scanners. This is a fairly new one. I can report both of mine have noticeably dimmed over the last year. No word from Uniden.
So you see the theme here. Lets move on to new and exciting products that will hopefully actually work as advertised.
The long awaited Whistler 1095 Mobile scanner is supposed to be out any time now. I can't wait to see some reports on how it performs.
AOR has released a very interesting radio that decodes pretty much everything and anything. It is too bad they don't offer trunk tracking on their radios.
Specs: http://radioaficion.com/cms/aor-ar-dv1/
Discussion: http://forums.radioreference.com/aor-receivers/297029-aor-ar-dv1.html
Coming from Russia of all places, this is a new receiver that does Trunk Tracking, DMR and a bunch of other things. It is not a dongle, but uses windows software to run it (similar to winradio). This has real potential.
Site: http://hrw.3dn.ru/news/apco25_and_dmr_receiver/2013-05-06-3
Discussion: http://forums.radioreference.com/all-other-scanner-manufacturers/305124-adcr25-p25-dmr-receiver.html
Lots of new things coming, unfortunately, most require you to be at your computer. An option (I am sure the FCC wouldn't be too happy with this), is to hook up an FRS radio with a VOX input, to your audio out of the sound card. You can then add that FRS frequency to your scanner and the audio will come over just like any other frequency. This could also work with Live feeds as well.
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