About Scanner School - Everything you wanted to know about the Scanner Radio Hobby
Welcome to Scanner School, a podcast dedicated to the Scanner Radio Hobby.
Each week we cover another topic related to scanning and will be answering all of your questions to take you from Scanner Radio Student to Scanner Radio Scholar.
Floods, Fires and Scanner Radios: Stories From 50 Years of Listening
Host Phil interviews Haskell Moore, an IT crisis manager, about his 50 years of scanner radio use, sharing dramatic stories and insights into technology evolution and responsible listening.
14 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
336 - Ask Scanner School v71
Host [Host Name] answers listener questions about DMR talk groups and scanner recommendations in this interview episode.
2 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT
335 - Ask Scanner School v70
Every month I answer your questions on the podcast.
If you have a question you would like me to answer, please leave me a voicemail at 516-308-2885 or by visiting www.scannerschool.com/ask
Questions answered on this week's podcast
SDS100 channel labels & alpha tags
BCD436HP SD card error
Whistler Group & SDS150 release
King County, WA scanner recommendations
Brevard County, FL
P25 scanner options
Sentinel & .NET install concerns
Home Patrol 2 not receiving
Scanner programming hierarchy
996P2 vs 536HP for digital
SDS150 or other scanner?
Detroit PD reception issues
Discone antenna advice
Magnetic antenna for CDM1250
Paid scanner buying help
NYPD trunking/encryption
NXDN multi-site scanning
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🛒 Links
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Here are links to the products we mentioned in the podcast. Some of these links may be affiliate links and Scanner School may earn a small commission if you use these links.
BuTel Programming Software: https://www.scannerschool.com/butel
Uniden SDS100: https://www.scannerschool.com/sds100
Uniden SDS150: https://www.scannerschool.com/sds150
Uniden SDS200: https://www.scannerschool.com/sds200
Uniden BCD996P2: https://www.scannerschool.com/bcd996p2
Uniden BCD536HP: https://www.scannerschool.com/bcd536hp
Diamond Discone Antenna https://www.diamondantenna.net
Radio McRadioface session: https://youtu.be/h5oAqo_49gY?si=3xrJ-AG5xa1XnGFr
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Squelchy opened his own store selling Scanner School merchandise!
Show your love for the Scanner Radio Hobby and Scanner School.
Pick up a hat, shirt, bag, or mug and help support Scanner School.
🔗 https://scannerschool.myspreadshop.com/
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🎙 Join our new Scanner Radio Community
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Join our FREE Discord server and connect with other Scanner Radio Users!
By using Discord, a free, multi-platform community portal, you can now be part of the Scanner Radio Discussion!
Chat real time, share photos, ask questions, and give feedback to others in chat.
🔗 https://www.scannerschool.com/discord
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🎓 Check out our online courses
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Our free Software Defined Radio course will have you up and running with a SDR in a weekend.
Upgrade to our Advanced Course, and learn how to setup SDR Software like a pro.
🔗 https://www.courses.scannerschool.com
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⚠️ I want to answer your questions
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I am always looking to answer your scanner radio question.
If you have a question you'd like answered, please leave me a voicemail with your question:
📞 516-308-2885
🔗 https://www.scannerschool.com/ask
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All session notes with links to the items we talked about can be found on our website at https://www.scannerschool.com/session335
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Inside a recent episode
Floods, Fires and Scanner Radios: Stories From 50 Years of Listening
Published 21 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Where else did this take you? Yeah, so I wanted to... be able to get feedback from the local hams. And I also wanted it to be part of my community service. So I started a website called Hughes Scan and where scanner enthusiasts could go to get the local frequencies. And this is very early internet days. It was pre radio reference days. And by the time I shut that website down, when radio reference came on, that site was totally redundant and nowhere near the phenomenal success of radio reference. So I shut it down and I had had over 500,000 hits. And the most interesting hit that I would get, and I had some tracking software that would tell me where the hits were coming in from, who was actually logging in or coming in and viewing the site. […]
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