[TheList] Canterbury Scanning Question

Thu Jan 25 19:25:50 AEDT 2018

Yep this is the way to go. Rpi, sdr dongle and openwebrx. Not great for 
searching the spectrum but if you know where you are looking for 
something its great. Can even be used on slow ADSL upload speeds as it 
needs bugger all bandwidth too!

On 10/01/2018 12:15 p.m., Nick McEvoy wrote:
> Get a RasPi and an SDR dongle. Look at MNM4SDR or similar. Put it all 
> in an enclosure and get a mate to plug it in down there. Rx only and 
> you can change freqs if you desire
>
> On 10/01/2018 2:41 AM, Mike Barnes <zl3tmb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi Richard,
>
>
>       The best option is to buy a cheap Baofeng radio tune it to the
>       frequency of interest:-
>
>     https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2-PCS-Baofeng-UV-5R-Walkie-Talkie-Dual-Band-HAM-Radio-Two-Way-Portable-Transceiver-VHF/32824752044.html?spm=2114.search0104.6.7.PuIWIY&s=p
>
>     Setup a mumble server at a mates place in the relevant city you
>     want to listen to, most important to keep the URL private. As
>     there are folk that don’t
>
>     like there traffic streamed on the web 😉
>
>     https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-mumble-server/
>
>     Job done 😊
>
>     Unfortunately we can’t do it on RF…
>
>     Cheers
>
>     Mike
>
>     *From:* TheList [mailto:thelist-bounces at radiowiki.org.nz] *On
>     Behalf Of *richard Pringle
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 January 2018 7:54 PM
>     *To:* thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
>     *Subject:* [TheList] Canterbury Scanning Question
>
>     What sort of set up would be needed (if possible) to be able to
>     hear police comms in Marlborough,westland or Otago areas?
>
>     Cheers.
>
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