are they any use now?

i have got a radio shack pro 28 and pro 23 and also a base scanner (broken antenna socket at the back) which used to pick up mobile phone calls, goes into 800 and 900 range. seems now everything has gone digitial, are they any use for anything anymore in the uk? anyone have an up to date freq list?

You can use them conventionally for whatever the bandwith allows you to.

In the UK/Europe/etc.. a lot of the systems are trunked MPT-1327 systems. I dont know if you can monitor them freq by freq conventionally.

Secondly, now a days (in the US) celluar phone systems are trunked and digital. Not worth listening to either. If you want to listen to a system make a bunch of images of celluar freq's, even then its quite useless.

Third you say a broken antenna socket, do you mean the female BNC? Or the BNC Male (twist on at the end of the antenna?)

EDIT: If you are able to program frequencys within the 900 band you can still pick up 900mhz phones/Vtech.(dont know about the UK)



[This message has been edited by Jsmooth744 (edited 03-16-2007).]

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old scanners are still of use, try between these freqs if you can.

140-180 mhz

440-470 mhz

You are pretty lickely to pick something up in those ranges.