So I'm looking at two - one, the Icom IC-R20 - seems to do everything except trunk tracking, 0.15 to 3.3GHz. Then there's the Uniden 396T digital scanner - 25MHz to 1.3GHz - no shortwave and less ...

With the Springfield police adopting a digital signal for its radio transmissions, some emergency scanners used to listen to public safety broadcasts no longer work. Of the two scanners used at The ...

DECT 6.0 technology operates on the 1.9GHz frequency band which was recently allocated to cordless telephony. DECT 6.0 incorporates “listen before transmit†technology which not only avoids ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

On Tuesday last week, the familiar crackle of radio traffic and the chatter of Billings police officers and local dispatchers on scanners across the city went silent, and it's not coming back. At ...