Anyone know of any cheap Uniden Home Patrol 2’s on the market or some good places to look? I am trying to get a scanner with trunking capabilities since my county recently updated to phase 25.
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Look up your county on Radio Reference first to ensure they haven’t encrypted as part of that change, otherwise you won’t be able to hear it at all.
While not a scanner, a very affordable option before I got my SDS100 I made use of a $30 SDR with the program OP25 which made it REALLY easy to get a scanner going for cheap… even made myself a portable version by installing it on a Raspberry Pi and taping it to a portable phone charger battery.
Another FANTASTIC program I use everyday is called SDRTrunk which can basically “hear” all traffic on a given P25 system, as long as you have enough SDRs to grab all the frequencies around.
Here are some things to look at:
- OP25 For Dummies - Or how to build a police scanner for $30 (Part 1) - John's Tech Blog
- GitHub - boatbod/op25: Fork of osmocom OP25 by boatbod
- GitHub - DSheirer/sdrtrunk: A cross-platform java application for decoding, monitoring, recording and streaming trunked mobile and related radio protocols using Software Defined Radios (SDR). Website:
- https://a.co/d/eLh4VOo
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Alright, Thanks a ton Zach!
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