A birdie? What is that?
A birdie? What is that?
Ok...here is one I could never figure out....I bought a expensive scanner back in the day...it was a Bearcat BC9000xlt.....I used to like to listen to the Mil-Air freqs...but at the same time I was receiving what I figured was cordless phones...the scanner was bone stock...no mods.
I actually sent him an e-mail last week, just letting him know he had a "birdie" on 28.380.
he sent me a nice e-mail back and thanked me for letting him know about it.
check out his website for essb stuff
The earliest cordless phones were somewhere in the 49 MHz region if I recall correctly. Later versions moved up to the 800 MHz range. Today I think they are somewhere above 1.2 GHz.
Back when cell phones were analog they also used a portion of the 800 MHz band. Early versions of the compact Bearcat and similar scanners could receive these frequencies and hear what was going on. Later versions were 'blocked', but could be easily made to cover the cell band. I had a BC 350 that would do this.