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Breaking News: Sudbury PD has rebanded to 852.9125 D023 7/14/08...Milton FD now on 482.075R 131.8...Lexington PD now APCO25 (7/19/07) BUPD now APCO25 (9/30/06)...Worcester's Trunk, Sandwich PD, Bourne PD, Mashpee PD now rebanded SEE BELOW!..Lancaster Fire now testing on 453.225R 110.9......Please post incidents, freq info, and questions on the ScanMass Board below...
 

 


 

 Boston News from moreover.com:


Recent Stories: (recently the stories stay active for so little time I have discontinued this section)
Where did all the Old News go? Try the "new" Old News Page (hmm I'm not sure that makes sense..)

Digital Scanner News:
Latest Uniden models: BC396t and BC969t available locally at ScannerMaster


   

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ScanMassNet Forums

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RadioReference.com Uniden Forums

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Strong Signals.net's

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Harry Marnell's page 

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Butel software

Latest GRE Models: PSR-500 and PSR-600
See GREAmerica for info and available locally at ScannerMaster

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Radio Reference GRE Forums

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Strong Signals Pro-96 Club

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Harry Marnell's Info
 


Local Scanning News

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Natick FD now testing on 483.650R D172 (info courtesy of Dom N1DM 4/20/09)

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Everett FD has now switched to 470.050R 186.2 (*info from ScanMass.net 11/10/08 details)

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Dover FD is testing on 483.050R D065 and some P25 (*info courtesy of kenny ScanMass.net 10/20/08 details)

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Lexington FD is simulcasting on their new frequency 482.0875R D271

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Lynn FD is simulcasting on their new frequency 470.150R 88.5

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Chatham FD is testing on 453.375R 103.5 (*info from ScanMass.net 8/13/08 details)

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Zone 11 a new zone on the MSP system has appeared in Wellfleet (*info from ScanMass.net 8/9/08 details)

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Falmouth PD seems to be using their talkgroup 38288 (*info from ScanMass.net 8/9/08 details)

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Chicopee PD has rebanded to 851.5625R and 853.5375R D155 (*info from ScanMass.net 7/20/08 details)

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Sudbury PD has rebanded to 852.9125R D023  (*info courtesy of Doug Meyer and myself 7/14/08)

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West Springfield PD has rebanded to 852.7875 167.9 (*info courtesy of ScanMass.net 6/28/08 details)

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West Springfield FD has rebanded to 851.475 D205 (*info courtesy of ScanMass.net 6/28/08 details)

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Boston College has gone P25 Encrypted on 472.1375R (*info courtesy of ScanMass.net 6/28/08 details)

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Providence RI PD has moved to their P25 Trunk system (*info from ScanMass.net 6/20/08 details)

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TotalRF WQIL813 back in town setting up for the Marathon (*info ScanMass.net 4/15/08 details)

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Milton FD now using 482.075R 131.8 (*info courtesy of Andy ScanMass.net 2/06/08 details)

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Sprint/Nextel settles rebanding cost dispute with City of Boston MRT Article

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Pittsfield PD now repeaterized with 154.800R 131.8 (*info courtesy of KB1HWH ScanMass.net 12/23/07 details)

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Dennis FD now simulcasting their talkgroup on 453.325 151.4 (*info courtesy of jeffkett on ScanMass.net 10/18/07 details)

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Lancaster PD now using 471.300R 71.9 (*info courtesy of francidog on ScanMass.net 10/16/07 details)

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Cohasset FD is now using 453.700R D266 (*info courtesy of Clyde ScanMass.net and Jim's email 10/13/07 details)

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Mashpee PD now using their talkgroup 38352 as their primary channel

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Lexington PD has gone P25 Digital on 471.1875R (*info courtesy of LFD8 on ScanMass.net 7/19/07 details)

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Umass Lowell PD reportedly now using P25 on 484.7125 (*info courtesy of Matt LPD7 6/1/07)

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Pepperell PD now operating on 482.800R 123.7 Fire/EMS remain on 453.550R (*info courtesy of Joshua R and Matt)

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TotalRF WQGT374 is intown and working away on Marathon TV Pool set up (*info courtesy of me on ScanMass.net 4/11/07 details)

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Tyngsborough Fire now simulcasting on 484.3750R 167.9 (*info courtesy of Topcatff on ScanMass.net 1/17/07 details)

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Metro Boston's Homeland Security Office is applying for several frequencies (interesting thread on ScanMass.net 12/27/06 details)

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Sterling PD now testing on 453.4000 D624 (*info courtesy of methuslah and dmonty83 on ScanMass.net 10/27/06 details)

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Grafton Police now simulcasting and testing on 471.675R 71.9 (*info courtesy of Mike D on ScanMass.net 10/25/06 details)

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Grafton Fire is now testing and simulcasting on 482.9875R D662 (*info courtesy of Mike D on ScanMass.net 10/24/06 details)

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Cohasset Fire is now testing on 453.700R 203.5 (*info courtesy of Kenny on ScanMass.net 10/17/06 details)

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Mansfield Police has left their trunk now using their new 472.250R P25  (*info courtesy of Hank on ScanMass.net 10/13/06 details)

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Boston Police is using talkgroup 55600 on the City's Trunk for transportation related to this Convention (10/14/08)

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Bristol County testing new fire mutual aid channel on 471.650 w/pl 203.5 (*info courtesy of Hank on ScanMass.net 10/12/06 details)

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Gillette Stadium now using four of their licensed frequencies during events  (*info courtesy Bill of Scan-Mass-East on 10/9/06 details)

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Boston University Police is now APCO25 472.1625R P25 (*info courtesy of Me on ScanMass.net  9/30/06 details)

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Mashpee PD has moved from 851.3125 to 854.9375 D445 for rebanding (*info courtesy of Scott H on ScanMass.net  9/28/06 details)

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Bourne PD has moved from 851.1625 to 857.4125 D445 for rebanding (*info courtesy of Scott H on ScanMass.net  9/23/06 details)

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Sandwich PD has moved from 851.3875 to 855.1125 D445 for rebanding (*info courtesy of Scott H on ScanMass.net  9/21/06 details)

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Worcester's Trunk has been rebanded with a new frequency plan (*info courtesy of Scott H on ScanMass.net  9/5/06 details)

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3 new P25 capable frequencies where added to MSP Zone 4 on the Cape (*info courtesy of Scott H on ScanMass.net  9/7/06 details)

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Frequencies in use at the Deutsch Bank Championship  (*info courtesy of me on ScanMass.net  9/1/06 details)

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Lancaster Fire now on 453.225R 110.9 (*info courtesy of David H. Green Jr 1/26/06)

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Frequencies in use at the Lowell Folk Festival (*info courtesy of MassBusMark on ScanMass.net  7/28/06 details)

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Report that Boston Fire will also change to new DPL's very soon  (*info courtesy of BFD-S5 on ScanMass.net  7/25/06 details)

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Boston Police started using new DPL codes this morning on all channels. What we have so far... discussion (6/21/06)

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Groton Fire is now using a new repeaterized frequency of 155.9025R 127.3 (*info courtesy of JohnMac on ScanMass.net  5/20/06 details)

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Reports that P25 traffic has been being heard on NEMLEC3 482.6375R  (*info courtesy of Scan-Mass-East on 519/06)

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Easton PD has reportedly shifted to their new rebabanded frequency of 855.7625R (*more on local rebanding)

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Weymouth PD has been heard testing on their new channel 2 of 472.3250R

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New Mid-State District 8 System has been proposed and is being discussed on ScanMass.net

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Seekonk Police is now using their new UHF channel of 470.8125R D351  (*info courtesy of Tim on ScanMass.net  4/29/06 details)

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Clinton Police has switched to their new high band repeater on 155.1975R 91.5  (*info courtesy of David Green on 4/12/06)

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Which way did it go??? The old stuff can be found on the Old News page.

Boston Area Information:

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Steven Johnson's Statewide Trunking Guide (The best site on the web for the States Trunking system)

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ScanCapeCod/Scan Massachusetts (Cape Cod's longtime Scanner Radio Guide by Scott Halligan has now gone statewide)

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Tim Caldwell's Antenna (Tim's site is another longtime Cape Cod site but is also a great resource for changes and updates from all over the state)

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Eastern Massachusetts Scanner Guide by Gary Saffer (long to load but worth the wait)

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ScanWorcester (Joe Tortorelli's new Worcester area site. Not many freqs yet but I have faith...)

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Terry Stader's Scanning in our area!

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ScanThis (Kevin's New England Scanner Website)

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Keith Tyler's Original ScanBoston Website

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Rob Bellville's Central Mass Scanning Website 

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Ike's Scanner Page (New England Military/Gov't Aviation Freqs.)

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Scan Plymouth (Plymouth County Towns and Cities)

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Peter Szerlag's Editorials on Public Safety (No Doubling!)

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Bob Clarke's Norfolk County Page

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RFWIZ.com's Scanner Frequency Selector for New England (Multec Communications)

What About Western MA:
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NECRAT ScanGuide

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Western Mass Area Scanning 

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Franklin County Scanning Zone

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Eastern Hampden County Scanning

Surrounding States:
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John Marcel's New Hampshire Communications Page

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Scan-RI.com

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New Hampshire Area Scanners

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ScanCT.com

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ConnScan The Connecticut Area Scanner Monitoring Page

Other Areas:
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Scan Atlanta Our sister site! Metro Atlanta's Premier Website for Trunking and Non-Trunking

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ScanOhio Ohio's On-line scanning resource

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RadioReference.com

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Police-Scanner.info The Police Scanner Info Portal

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Military Comms Monitoring HF,VHF,UHF

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Scanner.Cansler.Com

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Freq of Nature Just an amazing site!

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San Diego Area Scanning

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Kansas City Scanner Page  looking for a new link

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Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Association

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East Central Florida Scanner Page

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South East Michigan Scanner Page

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ScanWisconsin

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ScannerFeeds.us (Jason McDowell's new site that lists live scanner feeds all over the country updated regularly)

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LAPD's new APCO25 digital frequencies (from Harry Marnell.com)

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LAFD's own official frequency lists

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LA County's FD's official frequency page

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Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio Tri-State Scanner Page

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New York City Scanner Info (from n2nov.net)

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New York State-Orange and Ulster County Radio Frequency Lists

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ScanColorado.com

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RadioHawaii (proudly serving Hawaii's Scanning Community since 2000)

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Media Monitoring Guide

Message Boards:

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ScanMassachusetts Messageboard (Scott Halligans's ScanMassachusetts.net messageboard The Best!)

Local Scanning Email Lists:
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Scan Mass East 2

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Boston Alert

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Scan-Mass-East

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MassScan

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ScanWesternMass

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NHRadioScanners

Local Live Scanner Video and Audio:

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ScanBoston Visual feed *(30K visual windows media stream. You need high speed connection to get display) 

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ScanCapeCod Police and Fire feed  *(many types available)  More Info

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Cape Cod Fire Visual Feed (Tim Caldwell's Windows Media Stereo feed of Cape Cod Fire Departments)  More Info New visual display!

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Boston Fire Department Feed  (widows media audio feed of BFD Ch's 5,1,2,3&4 with priority on Ch2) NEW

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ScanCapeCod Audio Feed (16K audio only alternative feed for users without winamp) More Info

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Mass State Police EasternMA (ScanMass Teamspeak Feed ) 

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Mass State Police Central MA (ScanMass Teamspeak Feed ) 

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Boston EMS (32K Windows Media Feed of Boston EMS from Ed Burkes site boston-ems.com)

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Live Boston Area ATC (3 separate 16K streams Boston Clearance/Ground/Tower, Boston Approach/Departure, Boston Center ) New!!

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Brockton Police (Windows Media Stream straight from Brockton Police Hedquarters) More info   *NEW

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ScanRI Scanner (Ken LaBelle's Scan-Ri.com's 28K visual windows media stream) More Info

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Worcester Area Scanner (live Windows Media audio stream of Worcester Trunk, WPI PD and C troop) More Info

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New Bedford Police and Fire (20K windows media stream from www.newbedford-ma.com)

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Tac9, Brockton, Holbrook FD's and Norfolk Control (Tac 9 radio's stream with area FD's) More Info

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Stoughton Area Fire (20K Windows Media stream from Scott Mellyn) More Info

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Concord NH Area Fire More Info

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MassLive (Springfield area)

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FDNY (Windows Media Java Applets from The Bravest.com) More Info

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ScannerFeeds.us (Jason McDowell's new site that lists live scanner feeds all over the country updated regularly)
More Live stuff and links on my Live Audio Page

Recorded Audio from Scanner Events:

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Recorded Incidents & Scanner audio links

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Bay Area Scanner (with WTC recordings)

Notification Nets:

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Metro Radio System

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Tac9 Radio Brockton

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East Coast Paging & Wireless

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New England Fire and News Network

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Incident Page Network

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Middlesex Radio

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Central Radio System

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New Hampshire Statewide

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Providence Citywide

Local Fire photography pages:
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NH Fire Photography

Fire News:
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Firehouse.com

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Northeast Fire News (John Galla's excellent local site on Fire News)

Area Fire Related Sites:
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Elliot Belin's BFD Site (Unofficial Historian of the Boston Fire Department. Site includes records of BFD Working Fires/Multiple Alarms)

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CapeCodFD.com

Boston Area Newspapers:
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Boston Globe

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Boston Herald

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The Comunity Newspapers

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Boston Phoenix

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All the print media you ever need

Boston Television:







Links:

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Bobs Bookmarks (no one could come up with more...)

Scanner Revues:
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Strong Signals Net
 

Scanner Publications:
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Scanning USA Magazine


Specific Scanner Related Pages:
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BC780xlt.com

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Strong Signal's Page on the 780xlt

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Pro-92.com

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Pro92.com

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Pro93.com

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Pro-95.info

Trunking what is it?
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Motorola's Course

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Trunked Radio Information Homepage

 

Retail Links:

Local Scanner Guides:

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Scanner Master  
The tenth edition NE Pocket Guide is a must.  I have a copy within reach of every scanner I own.
They can also be purchased online here or at You Do It Electronics in Needham MA.

Scanner Equipment:
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Uniden

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GRE America

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Optoelectronics

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Stridesberg Antenna Multicouplers


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