programming Baofeng with file?

[Arctic Lake]

Can you use your radio like a scanner ( which is a device I know nothing about ) to monitor First Responder communications ?
Arctic Lake

[Redthies]

Can you use your radio like a scanner ( which is a device I know nothing about ) to monitor First Responder communications ?
Arctic Lake

You can program in any frequency you want, if it is in the spectrum covered by the radio. Personally, I would not do that and it would really suck to be caught doing it. I know there are separate blocks of frequencies set aside for Police, Fire, Ambulance etc, and recall that they were out of the frequency range of these radios, but I’ve been wrong before.

[bangbangkhan]

Can you use your radio like a scanner ( which is a device I know nothing about ) to monitor First Responder communications ?
Arctic Lake

most of them are encrypted so you wont be able to listen in

[MOUNTAIN MICKEY]

You can use your radio for a scanner BUT it is super slow--3 frequencies per second so almost useless that way. The scanner part of Baofeng is more for scanning already programed frequencies.

[Huk]

I have a Kenwood TK-2180 around here someplace. Should see if I can program it.

[westcoaster]

I have a Kenwood TK-2180 around here someplace. Should see if I can program it.

KPG89D is the software you would use.
ebay kenwood cable.

[Arctic Lake]

Thanks as always fellas !
Arctic Lake

Can you use your radio like a scanner ( which is a device I know nothing about ) to monitor First Responder communications ?
Arctic Lake

[Huk]

KPG89D is the software you would use.
ebay kenwood cable.

Thanks, I’ll check that out

[westcoaster]

Thanks, I’ll check that out

I haven't had a problem with any of the software I have pulled from this site....
http://www.radioscanner.ru/files/kenwood/file17724/

Use the engineer key.

[abbyfireguy]

Been a member of Abbotsford Radio Club for a number of years after taking my ham radio operators course .
I’m far from a radio pro as some of our club members are.
I have a Yaesu FT 8800 professionally installed in my truck and use it whenever on a Resource Road ,esspecially when I’m towing my travel trailer into camp and need a bit of advance warning to get into a pullout to keep the logging trucks happy.
Thats the biggest thing for me is to peacefully coexist with equipment operating on the Resource Roads.
A lot of times I get a Thankyou on the radio from a big truck when they come around a corner and I’m already pulled over well off the road, letting them pass by me without slowing down much ..
I have no desire to come around a corner to have a Kenworth Emblem staring me in the windshield!
I’m to old for that kind of excitement! LOL..
I am also looking at a new handheld radio as my Motorola handhelds are getting long in the tooth(but still function).