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Radiodude
Intermediate Member
Username: Radiodude
Post Number: 390
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 8:33 am: | 
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I am looking for a top quality scanner for a friend. He wants all the best coverage and all the other stuff, but he needs the scanner to "talk" to tell freq and id of the station as he is blind .
Does anyone have any ideas? |
Ozzie
Intermediate Member
Username: Ozzie
Post Number: 120
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 9:19 am: |
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I am not aware of any scanner that will do that BUT it shouldnt be too hard to add that capability to any scanner. Voice modules are out there and many have information for adding them to frequency readouts. Also I vaguely recall that a few years back an article for such an add-on was printed in either QST or 73 AR. |
Tech181
Moderator
Username: Tech181
Post Number: 865
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 6:35 pm: |
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Some of he new Uniden Base Scanners allow you to set up the channels to emit a series of beeps when a carrier is received. Other than that I know of no other that will "talk to you".
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Highlander
Intermediate Member
Username: Highlander
Post Number: 441
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 8:22 pm: |
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Well, the Yaesu VR-5000 has an optional voice synthesiser that will announce the current operating frequency. That's ALOT of radio!
That's the only receiver I know of that can do that without having to modify it yourself, but Ozzie's sugestion sounds intriguing. |
Tech181
Moderator
Username: Tech181
Post Number: 869
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 9:49 pm: |
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Really? The VR-5000? Cool, never knew that! I gotta check that out! |
Barracuda
Intermediate Member
Username: Barracuda
Post Number: 203
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 11:09 pm: |
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I do not know of any available product for this, but I would think that it may be possible to do with one of the "computer" recievers like the winRadio's or the similar icom unit. I do know that there is an ability to write plug-in code via simple basic language to both control and keep track of a winRadio. Given such programming ability, I'm sure it should be possible for someone to put such an ability together. Given the state of speech recognition software on PC's I would bet it would be possible to control such a unit via voice control as well. Sound's like a good spare-time project.
73,
Barracuda |
