What Scanner and Antenna do you use when out Railfanning?

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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Where I go railfanning there so many trains (in some cases over 100 per day) there is no need for a scanner. [:I]

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Originally posted by BNSFrailfan.
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I am an amateur radio operator. I use a Kenwood TM-732A transceiver with a 5/8 wave mag. mount antenna. The unit has a broadband receiver that I have programed with all the area railroads frequencies. Very sensitive receiver. I hear transmissions that most scanners will not pick up.

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I still use my tired old 100XLT for train stuff… Still works great after all these years. Needs a new battery pack made up though.

Dave
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I’m a Amateur Radio operator, too. I use a Radio Shack Pro-2096 for the car (mainly to listen to the police and fire digital frequencies). For me, though, I like to use my Icom IC-T90A, a really nice 2m/440/6m HT. It has 500 channels, and I have just about everything in it. Also, a Ham liscence comes in handy when you are talking to some other railfanning ‘buddies’ when taking photos of a excursion train at different crossings.
Phil