Trunking Scanners for Beginners Using FreeSCAN and the Uniden TrunkTracker (Amateur Radio for Beginners, #8)

"I think we need a new crystal for this thing." --Scanner guy from the 70s

Scanners were a lot simpler in decades past, when everything was analog, had a fixed frequency, and was unencrypted.

Nowadays, we have those old analog stations as well as digital, trunking systems, protocols, sites, talk groups, and who-knows-what coming down the road for next year. There are a lot of frequencies, systems, groups, codes, and little nit-picky details that have to go into our radios before we can even...