Railroad Scanners

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wgnrr

Member since
August 2004
From: Wisconsin
735 posts

Posted by wgnrr on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 8:13 AM

Radio Shack scanners are still good...

If one wanted, they could buy a mag-mount antenna for their roof to improve the reception of the scanner (The Radio Shacks use a BNC connector, so you would have to get one with a BNC on it, FYI)

Phil

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kolechovski

Member since
September 2002
762 posts

Railroad Scanners

Posted by kolechovski on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 7:09 AM

Although there were different topics on scanners, I couldn't find any recent ones. I'm wondering if there are any decent handheld ones that you guys know of that would be relatively cheap. I'm trying not to spend too far over $200. I just need a handheld one that does a good job of receiving railroad broadcasts. Any you guys recommend? I know in the past, some people suggested ones from Radio Shack, but I'm not sure if things have changed since then. In this day of high gas prices, I simply can't be wasting gas driving to where the trains aren't at. I figure this thing will pay for itself sometime (and I regret not buying it a few years ago when I really could've used it) just in gas savings. Thanks a lot.