In 90s-00s in Russia and CIS was many analog cordless phones, that worked in Low Band (30-49 MHz), VHF (136-174 MHz), UHF (390/264 and 902/926 MHz). Thanks for posting&73!
Yeah, you guys had cooler frequency ranges there. Those 390/260 Cordlesses also existed in Asia too, mostly made by Senao. I found some when I lived in Japan, you could get a regular desktop base station with 5 watts power and I also saw a 50 watt set with external antenna kit. Thanks for watching :3
Indeed thank you. Thankfully my new TRX-1 helps bridge that gap a little since I can leave it on 24 hour monitoring duty for a week then check back on it. 40 and the 900 range are my favorite to search for these and baby monitors, even if I don't catch anything I enjoy the hunt.
They last forever and where there's old people around it's always good hunting. I also used to find tons of baby monitors on 49 MHz. I also had a supposedly 5.8 GHz phone where the base actually transmitter on 900 MHz.
@@KandiKlover that is amazing and keep rocking it then! I wish I knew more people to talk about it with but most people don’t care or I don’t know enough for. So thank you for just posting cool videos.
I remember doing this in the 90s with a BC200XLT scanner for cordless phones. It also scanned the cellular band as well at that time. I checked out your other videos and subscribed.
Thank you very much for the sub and views :3 I almost bought a 100xl before because I found cheap on eBay, ended up getting my Pro-91 handheld instead because of the 900mhz coverage. Back in 2010 when I used to scan I would still find cordless phones and analog baby monitors in that range but now all that's left is the 40MHz stuff. Funny how that works.
@@KandiKlover You're welcome. I still have that BC200XLT with the original frequencies for cordless phones programmed in it but have not used it in years as everyone around here went to DECT 6 cordless phones. It still works on the air bands, though. In 2006, I bought a used BC250D with the digital card getting into trunked radio and P25 and sold that later and bought a BCD396XT and a BCD996XT back in 2009. Where I live the fire department went encrypted last year but I can still get their pages over the internet using an app called Pushover.
I like the BC250 it looks really cool. Does the battery on BC200 still work? I only saw ones with NiCad battery packs and no option to use regular AA battery.
@@KandiKlover No, the batteries for it are long gone. I changed it out a couple of times over the years and then went on to other scanners. I cut the old NiCd battery pack out and just plug in the power adapter to make it work. It has a little circuit board inside the empty battery case plastic shell which is a voltage regulator which works using the charging cable to power the scanner. I might hack it to use a different type of rechargeable battery.
I bought an SDR and was shocked to find someone using 49mhz cordless back in '22. I figured those handsets would have long since died or been replaced by something newer like DECT. They haven't even been made since the early 90s.
In 90s-00s in Russia and CIS was many analog cordless phones, that worked in Low Band (30-49 MHz), VHF (136-174 MHz), UHF (390/264 and 902/926 MHz). Thanks for posting&73!
Yeah, you guys had cooler frequency ranges there. Those 390/260 Cordlesses also existed in Asia too, mostly made by Senao. I found some when I lived in Japan, you could get a regular desktop base station with 5 watts power and I also saw a 50 watt set with external antenna kit. Thanks for watching :3
Brings back memories for sure. Every now and then I will search these bands hoping to get lucky, but with scanning timing is everything. Great video
Indeed thank you. Thankfully my new TRX-1 helps bridge that gap a little since I can leave it on 24 hour monitoring duty for a week then check back on it. 40 and the 900 range are my favorite to search for these and baby monitors, even if I don't catch anything I enjoy the hunt.
That analog cordless phone should be in a museum!
And the base turned into a micro broadcast station. An easter egg for fellow scannerists :D
Boy that brings me back. I didn't think those phones existed anymore
They last forever and where there's old people around it's always good hunting. I also used to find tons of baby monitors on 49 MHz. I also had a supposedly 5.8 GHz phone where the base actually transmitter on 900 MHz.
This is so cool! I love the fact people just play around with the technology. I can’t believe I have missing this channel. I love technology!
I love LoBand VHF. I'm always exploring this part of the spectrum.
@@KandiKlover that is amazing and keep rocking it then! I wish I knew more people to talk about it with but most people don’t care or I don’t know enough for. So thank you for just posting cool videos.
I remember doing this in the 90s with a BC200XLT scanner for cordless phones. It also scanned the cellular band as well at that time. I checked out your other videos and subscribed.
Thank you very much for the sub and views :3 I almost bought a 100xl before because I found cheap on eBay, ended up getting my Pro-91 handheld instead because of the 900mhz coverage. Back in 2010 when I used to scan I would still find cordless phones and analog baby monitors in that range but now all that's left is the 40MHz stuff. Funny how that works.
@@KandiKlover You're welcome. I still have that BC200XLT with the original frequencies for cordless phones programmed in it but have not used it in years as everyone around here went to DECT 6 cordless phones. It still works on the air bands, though. In 2006, I bought a used BC250D with the digital card getting into trunked radio and P25 and sold that later and bought a BCD396XT and a BCD996XT back in 2009. Where I live the fire department went encrypted last year but I can still get their pages over the internet using an app called Pushover.
I like the BC250 it looks really cool. Does the battery on BC200 still work? I only saw ones with NiCad battery packs and no option to use regular AA battery.
@@KandiKlover No, the batteries for it are long gone. I changed it out a couple of times over the years and then went on to other scanners. I cut the old NiCd battery pack out and just plug in the power adapter to make it work. It has a little circuit board inside the empty battery case plastic shell which is a voltage regulator which works using the charging cable to power the scanner. I might hack it to use a different type of rechargeable battery.
I bought an SDR and was shocked to find someone using 49mhz cordless back in '22. I figured those handsets would have long since died or been replaced by something newer like DECT. They haven't even been made since the early 90s.
I had still seen 49 MHz Sonys being sold new on amazon up into 2017. Same with baby monitors, funny how it outlived 900 MHz by far.