My scanner has noise only on the 800 freq. Sounds like wind blowing.
It will jump around on all the active frequencies. Any ideas what it
is? Are the police doing this?

On 17 Mar 2004 11:47:57 -0800, (Tim) disturbed
the phosphur particles on my screen with the following:

My scanner has noise only on the 800 freq. Sounds like wind blowing.
It will jump around on all the active frequencies. Any ideas what it
is? Are the police doing this?

Yeah, they don't have anything else to do. Look out your window and
you may spot the black helicopter.

Much of the stuff up at 800 MHz is digital but I can say that I have never
heard it sound like, "wind blowing". The police in my town have moved to the
bottom of the cell band and can't be scanned by most normal scanners. Plus
they have gone encrypted, trunked digital. It could be what you are
listening to but they did it the cheep way and went to the low end of the
800 MHz band outside of the frequency block.

"Tim" wrote in message
om...
My scanner has noise only on the 800 freq. Sounds like wind blowing.
It will jump around on all the active frequencies. Any ideas what it
is? Are the police doing this?

"WG" wrote in message news:%i66c.198652$A12.156182@edtnps84...
Much of the stuff up at 800 MHz is digital but I can say that I have never
heard it sound like, "wind blowing". The police in my town have moved to the
bottom of the cell band and can't be scanned by most normal scanners. Plus
they have gone encrypted, trunked digital. It could be what you are
listening to but they did it the cheep way and went to the low end of the
800 MHz band outside of the frequency block.

"Tim" wrote in message
om...
My scanner has noise only on the 800 freq. Sounds like wind blowing.
It will jump around on all the active frequencies. Any ideas what it
is? Are the police doing this?

fluorescent lamps ??

(R_QRP) wrote in message . com...
"WG" wrote in message news:%i66c.198652$A12.156182@edtnps84...
Much of the stuff up at 800 MHz is digital but I can say that I have never
heard it sound like, "wind blowing". The police in my town have moved to the
bottom of the cell band and can't be scanned by most normal scanners. Plus
they have gone encrypted, trunked digital. It could be what you are
listening to but they did it the cheep way and went to the low end of the
800 MHz band outside of the frequency block.

"Tim" wrote in message
om...
My scanner has noise only on the 800 freq. Sounds like wind blowing.
It will jump around on all the active frequencies. Any ideas what it
is? Are the police doing this?

fluorescent lamps ??

No. It is a hand held and I listened to it on the way to work and it
has the noise. It's only on the 800's, not the low or high bands. It
isn't constant on any one freq.

On 19 Mar 2004 03:51:23 -0800, (R_QRP) wrote:

"WG" wrote in message news:%i66c.198652$A12.156182@edtnps84...
Much of the stuff up at 800 MHz is digital but I can say that I have never
heard it sound like, "wind blowing". The police in my town have moved to the
bottom of the cell band and can't be scanned by most normal scanners. Plus
they have gone encrypted, trunked digital. It could be what you are
listening to but they did it the cheep way and went to the low end of the
800 MHz band outside of the frequency block.

"Tim" wrote in message
om...
My scanner has noise only on the 800 freq. Sounds like wind blowing.
It will jump around on all the active frequencies. Any ideas what it
is? Are the police doing this?

fluorescent lamps ??

Digital usually sound like running water (no ****).
Perhaps like the person said "fluorescent lamps"
60hz hum harmonics.