It's weird for me too. I have much interest in radio but have no experience or knowledge of where to begin. What's legal and what isn't. What's traceable and what's harder to catch. And so on. About the only skill I have at this juncture in life is experimenting with tape. I love the history lessons and numbers stations this channel always talks about though. ☺
Since the Watson units appear to be out of out of stock everywhere, here's a plea for a new production run by Waters & Stanton. Viewers of the channel thank you in advance!
I remember reviewing the Optoelectronics offering, for one of the mags, back in the day. And then Uniden came up with the CloseCall feature, at a fraction of the price. I hooked mine up (the Uniden) the other day and it locked onto overflying aircraft and also a skip-hire mobile, on around 71MHz 😊
Very cool. It has to be said that the Interceptor is much cooler-looking than the newer unit, has that 80s/90s futuristic thing going on. Good thing you're taking car of it.
Im sure I have got a small handheld scanner from Watson in my van with a digital display, I use it to check for clashing radio remote controls when we set cranes up 433 and 434mhz, ill try and get a picture of it, It's 20 yrs old now. I need a charger for it.
Finding old and rare devices is a good use for eBay search alerts. I got a hit on an old piece of tech last week that completes my accessories for my Magnum 1012.
I had an R10 in the 90's and it was brutal against analog phones. See a cell or cordless phone? Tap a button a few times and you are listening. It's very cool that there's a new version. If you go to pretty much any event you can often listen to what's going to since so much of voice wireless communications is still analog.
@@kreuner11 Totally! I also had this tiny portable black and white TV from the 80's that was able to listen to cellular analog phone. Analog cellular was a wider FM (30 KHz?) that the TV well matched. Fairly close to a base station and I was able to quickly listen to all phone calls by spinning the TV tuning dial. In the US there are still out dated restrictions on portable/desk top radio scanners that could listen to old analog cellular frequencies.
Same. In Scotland during the 80s i had a CRT, tv. I saw several police car's pull up across my street. So i turned the volume down on the tv. To help my busybody hear more of what was being said over the road. Out of the blue, i heard. "Bring the enforcer. We're going to force entry." This came through my TV's speaker very clearly. Even though volume was turned off? Still haven't a clue why i picked up that transmission???
Like "Video killed the radio star" ... Analog killed the scanner star. heh As times goes on, there'll be fewer and fewer analog transmissions, nevertheless it's a cool gadget to have.. :)
Hello Lewis, long time follower. Im pretty sure i have not seen you review the quangsheng uvk58. I'm also even more sure that is intentional as im sure you have already seen it spoken about in the community. Anyway I would love to see a video from you on it with both the standard and modified FW. 73
I suspect the reason you picked up distant broadcast stations is because of the wider bandwidth and the capture range of the watson. Simply the broadcast station would be seen for a larger period in the scan.
It's probably just a few Op-amps with a capacitive tuning circuit with some timer IC trimming the voltage for the sweep. What would be interesting is with such a large bandwidth, how it is handling the IQ for the frequency counter 🤔 Teardown?
Wouldn't trust the clowns at radio world as far as I can throw them. Fobbed me off with a broken Whistler TRX1 for almost 2 years. Absolutely horrendous customer service.
Lewis could I recommend a Radio Shack 22-305 or 22-306 fequency counter, I used these for tracking frequencies and they are very portable and work great with good band response. Just a thought.. Cheers!
I managed to find a hospital paging system frequency as I was driving around with my scanner in Leeds of course the hospital you were picking up definetly wasn't Leeds General but by the beginning tone it seems they use the same system. But I'm also trying to find out what system this is too. Since it doesn't sound like any other pagers I've heard or read up about online (POCSAG, FLEX, etc) if you go out again see if you can pick up that paging system on an SDR.
What currently available products would do the same thing, or similar? I find "bug detectors" everywhere but most wont actually allow you to then listen to found signal.. ?
Are you still interested in an icon ID 51? I still have mine. I am not going to sell it but if you would like it you’re more than welcome to it. I have sent you emails, but I heard nothing.
Police transmissions personal radios and their repeaters were FM on UHF 466 mhz and 450 mhz , police Vhf transmissions were those used mostly in vehicles and their transmissions were around 146,147 mhz AM. With AM repeaters at 155 mhz
@@brutonstreettailor4570 that is correct, I forgot about the UHF radios and they were indeed FM. Apart from the Met that used VHF for personal radios. .
ANY signal Should say ANALOG signal In the title, then a tighter video & skip the whole bit explaining your title. Or use whatever title works & tighten up
If the signal was off the oppo side of that mast it could explain the big drop in signal Lewis as its a dipole center fed, the other antennas of the side facing Manny wouldn't have an issue that way but on the other side it would as it's not a true Omni signal.
This channel is weird for me. I've no interest in radio but I'm an engineer and like learning new things and the videos are so well done.
Welcome aboard!!
It's weird for me too. I have much interest in radio but have no experience or knowledge of where to begin. What's legal and what isn't. What's traceable and what's harder to catch. And so on.
About the only skill I have at this juncture in life is experimenting with tape.
I love the history lessons and numbers stations this channel always talks about though. ☺
Watson is a trading name for Waters & Stanton - the Amateur Radio supply company.
Nice extra bit of info. Thanks m8. 👍
Since the Watson units appear to be out of out of stock everywhere, here's a plea for a new production run by Waters & Stanton. Viewers of the channel thank you in advance!
I remember reviewing the Optoelectronics offering, for one of the mags, back in the day. And then Uniden came up with the CloseCall feature, at a fraction of the price. I hooked mine up (the Uniden) the other day and it locked onto overflying aircraft and also a skip-hire mobile, on around 71MHz 😊
Very cool. It has to be said that the Interceptor is much cooler-looking than the newer unit, has that 80s/90s futuristic thing going on. Good thing you're taking car of it.
I can think of a few modern day uses for this little gadget. US rail is VHF and analog so I recon this would be useful if you're on an amtrak train
You also should be able pickup tow truck drives cab companies FRS GMRS radios and maybe 2 way radios at a water treatment plant.
Im sure I have got a small handheld scanner from Watson in my van with a digital display, I use it to check for clashing radio remote controls when we set cranes up 433 and 434mhz, ill try and get a picture of it, It's 20 yrs old now. I need a charger for it.
Finding old and rare devices is a good use for eBay search alerts. I got a hit on an old piece of tech last week that completes my accessories for my Magnum 1012.
I had an R10 in the 90's and it was brutal against analog phones. See a cell or cordless phone? Tap a button a few times and you are listening.
It's very cool that there's a new version. If you go to pretty much any event you can often listen to what's going to since so much of voice wireless communications is still analog.
In Poland the original cell network was NMT, you could use and UHF radio or even older TV to listen to all phone calls
@@kreuner11 Totally! I also had this tiny portable black and white TV from the 80's that was able to listen to cellular analog phone. Analog cellular was a wider FM (30 KHz?) that the TV well matched.
Fairly close to a base station and I was able to quickly listen to all phone calls by spinning the TV tuning dial.
In the US there are still out dated restrictions on portable/desk top radio scanners that could listen to old analog cellular frequencies.
Same.
In Scotland during the 80s i had a CRT, tv. I saw several police car's pull up across my street. So i turned the volume down on the tv. To help my busybody hear more of what was being said over the road. Out of the blue, i heard. "Bring the enforcer. We're going to force entry." This came through my TV's speaker very clearly. Even though volume was turned off? Still haven't a clue why i picked up that transmission???
Like "Video killed the radio star" ... Analog killed the scanner star. heh As times goes on, there'll be fewer and fewer analog transmissions, nevertheless it's a cool gadget to have.. :)
@@kreuner11 👍 🏴 🇵🇱
Thanks RM. Always Great Information and Videos**** Take Care ****
Try an FM Broadcast band filter, they worked wonders for me with similar devices.
Hello Lewis, long time follower.
Im pretty sure i have not seen you review the quangsheng uvk58.
I'm also even more sure that is intentional as im sure you have already seen it spoken about in the community.
Anyway I would love to see a video from you on it with both the standard and modified FW.
73
I suspect the reason you picked up distant broadcast stations is because of the wider bandwidth and the capture range of the watson. Simply the broadcast station would be seen for a larger period in the scan.
CI-V is the remote control protocol used by Icom. I wonder if it will tune an Icom receiver to the detected signal?
You needed the ct17 interface to “ reaction tune” ( as it was termed) an icom receiver of that era , i know as still have the mighty Icr 9000.
It's probably just a few Op-amps with a capacitive tuning circuit with some timer IC trimming the voltage for the sweep.
What would be interesting is with such a large bandwidth, how it is handling the IQ for the frequency counter 🤔
Teardown?
Dude, we gave you that money to buy coffee, and you went an brought a radio! I am contacting Ofsted!
Hi ringway i love your videos keep them up! :)
😂 I knew you'd end up with one Lewis 😂 now try the Black- box-mk 2 am air band version, which is non radiating so can be used on the aeroplane.
No!!! 😂😂😂😂
Would've very much liked to have seen inside this and the interceptor, Lewis!
After all the talk about those devices I get curious how they actually work.
Please show us a block diagram or its principle of operation!
Great vid, Lewis...👍
I really need to get my hands on a discone. Gotta prioritize it over hacking gadgets. Lol
Uniden ubc9xlt and the newer ones have closecall which is similar can even lock out annoying freqs and set freq zones to miss :-)
Wouldn't trust the clowns at radio world as far as I can throw them. Fobbed me off with a broken Whistler TRX1 for almost 2 years. Absolutely horrendous customer service.
that's a great product idea.enjoyed
the video.
Lewis could I recommend a Radio Shack 22-305 or 22-306 fequency counter, I used these for tracking frequencies and they are very portable and work great with good band response. Just a thought.. Cheers!
I managed to find a hospital paging system frequency as I was driving around with my scanner in Leeds of course the hospital you were picking up definetly wasn't Leeds General but by the beginning tone it seems they use the same system. But I'm also trying to find out what system this is too. Since it doesn't sound like any other pagers I've heard or read up about online (POCSAG, FLEX, etc) if you go out again see if you can pick up that paging system on an SDR.
Thank You
Weren't there versions of this that you could use to program a scanner? I remember ads for them.
very cool. btw, running kg tone on this computer, and i can say they were using a 192.8hz tone 🙂
I recently bought an LPD radio talk about obsolete tech 😁🤪👍🏻
Thanks, Lewis 👍
Interesting as uaual.Thanks.
I really wish close call could be done with a sdr
Hardwired cams are still undetectable.
This function + demodulation and storage can be programmed on an custom fw for the pluto sdr.
This stuff fascinates me!
Thanks!
Thank you!!
There's one going with a scout on eBay if you've got deep pockets! I would but Xmas has stuffed me lol 😂
Saw that he’s a bit overpriced though
Ah the march of progress leaves all kinds behind.
Digital is nice
Excellent. I'm rather surprised the NiCad battery still works.
What’s the antenna your using with the white and black caps. I want one
Sawtron eat your heart-out.
What currently available products would do the same thing, or similar? I find "bug detectors" everywhere but most wont actually allow you to then listen to found signal.. ?
Uniden scanners often include a close call feature which does a very similar task....except it shows the frequency
Why it doesn’t display the frequency of the reception at hand? Would be neat!
I wonder where Uniden got there idea for close call
Are you still interested in an icon ID 51? I still have mine. I am not going to sell it but if you would like it you’re more than welcome to it. I have sent you emails, but I heard nothing.
Is there a modern version of this radio?
Does Uniden/Bearcats Close Call work on the same principle?
I've seen this somewhere before 🤔👀
are there any modern devices. that do this ? or do we need to look for 20 plus year old recievers ?
Wonder if this is similar to the black box airband receiver
You legend you
Would not have been too effective to monitor as I belive police analog transmissions as they were AM.
Police transmissions personal radios and their repeaters were FM on UHF 466 mhz and 450 mhz , police Vhf transmissions were those used mostly in vehicles and their transmissions were around 146,147 mhz AM. With AM repeaters at 155 mhz
@@brutonstreettailor4570 that is correct, I forgot about the UHF radios and they were indeed FM. Apart from the Met that used VHF for personal radios.
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Hello sir what are the 2 antenna white and black round ones plz
He made videos about it
Nice gizmo's
👍
ANY signal
Should say ANALOG signal
In the title, then a tighter video & skip the whole bit explaining your title.
Or use whatever title works & tighten up
That was just noise mark…
If the signal was off the oppo side of that mast it could explain the big drop in signal Lewis as its a dipole center fed, the other antennas of the side facing Manny wouldn't have an issue that way but on the other side it would as it's not a true Omni signal.