Category Archives: Hamvention

Hamvention Here we come!

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Once again Scanner Master will be at the Dayton Hamvention! This is the largest hamfest of the year and we will be in our regular booth, # 3303 in Building 3. Be sure to stop by and see Rich Barnett, Rich Carlson and Gommert Byson of Butel in the booth!

Hamvention is open to the public on 9A-5P Friday, May 17 and Saturday May 18, and 9A-1P on Sunday, May 19 2019 at the Greene County Fairgrounds in Xenia Ohio. On Sunday only the admission is free this year!

Please stop by our booth if you attend this year, we will have scanners and accessories for sale and will be happy to say hi!

8 Days until the 2018 Hamvention

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The Dayton Hamvention is only 8 days away. We are ready!

Friday, May 18 – 9AM to 6PM
Satruday, May 19 – 9AM to 5PM
Sunday, May 20 – 9AM to 1PM

Greene County Fairgrounds
120 Fairground Rd
Xenia, OH 45385
Booth 3303 | Building 3

We have all of our table signs printed and ready to go!

We have the Uniden Bearcat SDS100 loaner ready to go.

All of the stock is packed and ready to head west

We got the maps, tour books and the AAA TripTik. Thank you AAA Southeastern New England!

Follow Jonathan Higgins and Rich Carlson trip the Dayton Hamvention starting Tuesday, May 15 on Facebook!

New Product Showcase | Hamvention 2018

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Jonathan Higgins and Rich Carlson will be presenting the new Uniden Bearcat SDS100 at the Dayton Hamvention “New Product Showcase” media event.

Friday, May 18, 2018 @ 4:30 PM- 4:40 PM
Building 1 ~ Room 5 | FORUM MAP

Moderator: Michael Kalter
Dayton Hamvention is hosting a media event allowing companies to formally announce new products. This is primarily a media event and will be available online following the Showcase. Public seating is limited first come first served.

2018 Dayton Hamvention

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Scanner Master to Demo the new Uniden SDS100 at the Dayton Hamvention, May 18-20th

Scanner Master Corp. is proud once again to be displaying its wares at the 66th annual Dayton Hamvention, May 18-20th. Meet the Scanner Master experts: Rich Barnett, Jonathan Higgins and Rich Carlson as well as Gommert Buijsen of BuTel Software. We will be showcasing the latest products from Uniden, Whistler, Unication and BuTel.

See the new Uniden Bearcat SDS100 handheld scanner at the Scanner Master booth. We will have a demo on loan from Uniden for the weekend. (Note that this item has not yet received FCC approvals and may not be offered for sale.)

Meet the Scanner Master Experts:

Rich Barnett founded Scanner Master as a teenager in 1978, writing books about communications in Massachusetts. Since that time Scanner Master has become a leading dealer of scanners as well as a technology developer and consultant for the industry. (Rich Barnett will be in Dayton Friday only)

Jonathan Higgins has been a part of the Scanner Master team for the past 10 years after a career in broadcast radio. Along with being a scanner expert, Jonathan handles all of the company’s digital content. Jonathan has been interested in scanners and two-way radios for nearly 30 years

Rich Carlson, a retired police sergeant and 9-1-1 Director, has been working with Scanner Master for over 20 years as an author of scanner guides and more recently handling customer service and sales.

Gommert Buijsen has been listening to scanners since he was 14 years. Owner of BuTel, he has been developing software for scanners since the early nineties.

Road Trip to Dayton, Ohio
Follow Jonathan Higgins and Rich Carlson making their 13 hour, 835 mile trip westbound to Dayton from Boston. Things could get interesting when these two scanner buffs and rail-fans hit the road! Be sure to “Like” our Scanner Master Facebook page and follow us on Twitter for live updates as they make their way westbound.

We hope to see you in person at Hamvention. If you can’t make it we will be doing live social media updates throughout the weekend of Friday, May 18 – Sunday, May 20, 2018. Greene County Fairgrounds 120 Fairground Rd, Xenia, OH 45385. Booth 3303 | Building 3

2017 Dayton Hamvention

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The 2017 Dayton Hamvention is going to be held from May 19 thru 21, 2017 at the Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center in Xenia OH. This is the first year for Hamvention to be held in the new location and we are very excited about attending this year!

Rich Barnett and Gommert Buijsen (Author of the Butel ARC programming software) will be manning the booth this year. We will of course have a wide variety of scanners and accessories available at great prices.

Be sure to stop by at Booth 3303 (in Building 3) and say Hi to Rich and Gommert!

Hamvention 2015

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AOR to demonstrate their new AR-DV1 Multi-Mode Digital Receiver at the Scanner Master booth #402 on Friday May 15th at 2 PM

We are so pleased and excited to announce that Taka Nakayama of AOR-USA will be at our booth on Friday afternoon at the Dayton Hamvention this year to demonstrate the eagerly awaited, all-new, AR-DV1 receiver.

The DV1 is the first radio that provides decoding of many of the digital formats which no other scanner is able to receive, AR-DV1 Multi-Mode Digital Receiverincluding:

  • MotoTrbo ™
  • DMR ™
  • dPMR ™
  • NXDN ™

as well as numerous amateur radio digital formats from Yaesu, Kenwood, Icom and Alinco. The radio will also decode APCO-25 Phase I digital as well as conventional analog traffic. (The receiver does not trunk). MotoTrbo systems are now used by public safety agencies and business around the country and the world. NXDN is used by public safety as well as railroads around the nation.

This radio is a huge breakthrough and we hope you’ll join us at Dayton this year to see the receiver in action, live at our booth. We also will have a small stock available for purchase at the show. Gommert Buysen of BuTel Software will once again be at our booth as well.

Hamvention 2015The Dayton Hamvention
Friday May 15, 2015 – Sunday, May 17, 2015
Hours are as follows:
Flea Market
Friday: 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Saturday: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Sunday: 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Inside Exhibitors
Friday: 9;00 AM to 6:00 PM
Saturday: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Sunday: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Road Trip back from Dayton Hamvention

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By Richard Barnett

Destination: Dayton, OH
Event: Dayton Hamvention
When: Friday, May 20 – Sunday, May 22, 2011

Dayton Hamvention Report

Gommert Buysen of Butel Software and I just returned from the Dayton Hamvention in Dayton, OH. The Hamvention is the world’s largest Ham radio show and has been held every year in late May since the early 1950s. For the past dozen or so years Scanner Master has had a booth at the show where we meet scanner hobbyists and amateur radio operators, talk scanners and show and sell scanners and accessories.

We drive out to the show each year from our Massachusetts offices and this year we brought with us the Uniden HomePatrol HP-1 for the ride and mounted it on Uniden’s new windshield suction-cup mount along with our Garmin GPS receiver kit to provide the HomePatrol with constant automatic position data. This set-up was simply amazing. We did not have to touch the HP-1 more than a couple of times on the entire route from near Boston to the far side of Ohio. The radio constantly updated the active channels based on our location. As we drove the State Police/Highway Patrol was always active and the county sheriffs and local police channels enabled and disabled automatically as needed. If we wanted to listen to fire services as well we just pressed the menu key, pressed the select service types key, and the fire key. That’s it.

At the show the HomePatrol received universal praise from other very serious hobbyists as well as Ham radio operators for its ease-of-use and, like us, everyone who drove to the show with the GPS functionality on were simply wowed at how well it worked. As the RadioReference database which fuels the HomePatrol gets better and better every day the radio becomes more of an incredible tool. Yes we’re gushing, but this scanner deserves every accolade it gets.

We’ll have more on the show and other radios that people loved in an upcoming posting.

Rich Barnett

Road Trip to Dayton Hamvention

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Destination: Dayton, OH
Event: Dayton Hamvention
When: Friday, May 20 – Sunday, May 22, 2011

Scanner Master will be back at its usual inside booth #402 at the Dayton Hamvention in Ohio from May 20th-22nd. Rich Barnett will be there along with Gommert Buysen of Butel ARC Software. If you’ve never been to the Dayton Hamvention it’s the world’s largest gathering of Ham radio operators including a great many scanner enthusiasts. GRE, Icom and others will have booths and Rich and Gommert will be in the Scanner Master booth to answer any questions and of course sell scanners and accessories.

Please stop by and say hello and and take a look at some of our new products and accessories.

Hara Arena – Map
1001 Shiloh Springs Rd.
Dayton, Ohio 45415