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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.

Scanner Master Road Trip Boxborough, MA Police Department

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By Richard Barnett

Boxborough, MA – Scanner Master has sold and installed the equipment for a Rangecast monitoring system to the Boxborough, Massachusetts, Police Department. In this image you can see four BCT15X Bearcat Scanners mounted in a Scanner Master two-hole rack-mounting panel which is installed in the police department’s computer room at their station. The scanners are connected to a discone antenna mounted on the department’s tower and a Stridsberg multicoupler splits the feed to the four scanners while recovering loss with a small amplifier . A quad-core PowerSpec PC is connected to the scanners via a custom Rangecast Sound Hub which allows four scanners to simultaneously feed into one PC and upload to the Internet. The Boxborough Police use Rangecast to follow and record their department’s communications along with all surrounding local and State law enforcement. Rangecast is a powerful, easy-to-use and low-cost IP-based communications monitoring system. For more information on Rangecast visit Rangecast.com or contact Scanner Master.

Scanner Master Road Trip – Dallas

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By Richard Barnett

Today I flew to Dallas and had lunch with Paul Opitz, scanner product manager for Uniden America. Amongst other topics Paul and I and discussed the new portable BC346XT and BCD396XT scanners and their success in the marketplace. Paul was kind enough to review and make some edits to our 346 and 396XT comprehensive reports and we’ll be posting those corrections shortly. I had a suggestion for Paul for a new features for these and other Dynamic Memory scanners: The ability to stop on one System and scan it by itself, even if other systems are enabled. But Paul had me scooped. The feature is already in the radio. Here’s how you activate it: While scanning any system, press HOLD for 2 seconds.

There’s so much scanner firmware developers can now do with scanner operation that many features we’re not even aware of -perhaps because we didn’t spend enough time reviewing the manual- although sometimes one finds features that are not even in the manual.

Scanner Master Road Trip – Set-up Day at Dayton Hamvention

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By Richard Barnett

I arrived in Dayton after a long, long, ride from Boston. I met up with Gommert Buysen of Butel Software and Rich Carlson of the CARMA club in Chicago and we set up good ‘ol booth 402-403, our regular spot at Hamvention these last 10 or so years. I wonder how turnout will be with the economy in rough shape. Last year the economy was holding up OK but gas prices were double what they are today so we didn’t expect to see people coming to the show from long distances. In the end though we had a great show last year, surprisingly better than the year before.

Tonight we went to a terrific ICOM-hosted dinner party at a Packard car museum in downtown Dayton. Beautiful cars and great food, hosted by a very classy company. We are proud to have been selected as ICOM’s newest dealer and Scanner Master now carries the full line of ICOM communications receivers. More on that in a future blog.

Rich