Comments by "Bond25" (@Bond2025) on "Scanner Frequencies You NEED For 2024!" video.

  1. It was a great hobby in the 80s and 90s, now all people hear is aircraft, marine, amateur and PMR. There is nothing else and they all get boring. Don't waste your time and money. Mobile phones killed off PMR companies in 1994, shared repeater use vanished. Low cost radios for shop security are mostly digital now. Why would you want to hear aircraft or marine! Everything else of interest is digital and encrypted so you will never hear it.
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  2. I bought a Pro34 in Novemeber 1988 when they were introduced. £249.99 and it still works to this day, even after modifying to listen to POCSAG in the late 90s. Nothing on it now apart from marine, airband and the odd PMR. In the 80's and 90's it was quite interesting to listen on! Years later I used a Kenwood TH42E after extending the TX/RX to cover 400 to 470MHz... programmed mainly for my 70cm use, but one or two channels with split RX/TX were interesting! That Kenwood lasted about 6 years and broke, cheaply made junk. I got it through a company I was doing business with, Kenwood sold all the radios at 40% of retail to companies, so I got a real bargain. You get ripped off at amateur radio dealerships.
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  3. Doesn't matter that much as you will not hear anything of interest. RG213 is fine as an aerial high up without obstruction is more important. You need to consider what you will be listening to and make sure the aerial covers the frequencies.
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  4. Don't bother, you are 30 years too late! There is nothing interesting to listen to, only aircraft, marine, amateur and the odd shop security radio if not DMR. Absolute waste of money now. There are NO secret frequencies!
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