{"id":14175,"date":"2022-02-08T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14175"},"modified":"2022-03-31T10:36:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T09:36:04","slug":"blogathon-08-22-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14175","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 08\/22: Scanner!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A very, very, very long time ago, when I had an appetite for such things, I bought a scanner. You have to bear in mind that as a nipper I played with electronics as a hobby from the age of 9 and later, when I was ejected from the family home, I went on to play with electronics professionally. Indeed, I used to play with bits of Racal kit such as this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"365\" height=\"138\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/RA1771a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/RA1771a.jpg 365w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/RA1771a-300x113.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><figcaption>Racal RA1771a\/1772<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So when the all frequency receiver\/scanner popped up into my field of vision, I jumped at it, bought it, put in a safe place and promptly forgot about it for a good number of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently discovered\/rediscovered it, in a box of electronic stuff in the garage. I blew the dust off it, connected it to the mains, tuned it in to the local airport approach and was pleasantly surprised that it seems to work nicely. But there&#8217;s a thing. Although it&#8217;s got an impressive frequency range (500KHz to 1300MHz [1.3GHz]) with no gaps, it doesn&#8217;t have a BFO and if I&#8217;m keenly interested in one aspect of radio, it&#8217;s SSB operations on HF. So yes, a BFO would be most handy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The device is a Trident TR1200 which (unsurprisingly) is no longer made. It was also produced in various rebadged guises as an AOR AR2000 and\/or a Camnis HSC-010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really should learn how to use it properly, regardless of the lack of BFOability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very, very, very long time ago, when I had an appetite for such things, I bought a scanner. You have to bear in mind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}