From: (ConnieG999)
Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.radio.scanner
Date: 02 Jun 2004 03:26:46 GMT
Subject: BC 100XLT - Please dont laugh!

Greg writes:

Connie - The first thing is to find out what sort of radio systems are in
use by your local police, fire, and EMS agencies and what frequencies they
use. You can probably find this information on the Web.
Your 100XLT is fine for monitoring conventional systems. To monitor trunked
systems, you would need something like the BC785 or Pro 95 you mentioned.

This is the only thing I can find on my area, and it's so complex I can't make
head or tails of it.
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/workforce...03ComPlan1.pdf
Can you decipher any of it?

Again, do a Web search to learn about trunked vs conventional systems.

This I can probably do. Thanks for your help.

Sorry - I am unable to read pdf files because my Acrobat keeps crashing.
If, as you say, the activity in your area is trunked, you will have a hard
time monitoring it. But if the 100XLT tunes 800mHz, you can monitor the
trunked frequencies - but the scanner won't track the conversations as they
jump from one freq to another at random.

You can email me if you want - maybe I can help you find some useful
frequencies. I live in Lakeland.

Greg