Hosted in the Cloud

Just an update to say that this site was moved from being hosted on our business internet connection to now being hosted on a server in Amazon’s EC2 cloud.  Amazon offers a year of free EC2 access for anyone who signs up.  So far, I’ve hit a few bumps but the experience has taught me … Read more

Updated Pro-96 Scanning on Linn County

Hello All!  Back again with an updated Arc96 file ready for you to upload to your Pro92/Pro2096 –> Download Cedar Rapids P25 August 2014 Here <– In this revision I have broken out the banks in such a manner to easily allow the user to switch between scanning CRPD/CRFD/County and Fire. Bank 0: Linn P25: … Read more

Pro 96 Scanning on the new Linn County System

Well the Linn County system has come online, and despite what I had originally thought, this scanner CAN be used to receive the new Linn County P25 system (CRPD, CRFD, etc)! There are a few gotcha’s that are explained in depth on Radio Reference: http://forums.radioreference.com/radio-shack-scanners/284784-pro96-tg-id-display.html http://forums.radioreference.com/iowa-radio-discussion-forum/283714-new-linn-county-p25-help-7.html These basically boil down to: update your scanner DSP … Read more

Now available on IPv6

This site is now available on IPv6 with full functionality. www.shawngarringer.org AAAA 2001:470:c63d:5::abc:123: If you’re on an IPv6 network (like Verizon 4G LTE) just going to www.shawngarringer.org connects you through the IPv6!