"Recieving" TV on a hand held scanner

[maggsc]

Hi!

From what I've read on a few websites and been told by a few people it is possible to pick up TV audio and radio channels on a scanner. I was just wondering if this is possible or if it's just an urban myth!

As you may have guessed I'm new to scanning and have had one for about 2 weeks. I have a Uniden Bearcat UBC69XLT and I'm based in South Wales.

Cheers all

Chris

[Robin1]

Yes it is true and you get the signals in the UHF block round about 500MHz

[RogerD]

TV - only if the scanner covers 470-860MHz and has wideband FM mode
- and UBC69XLT doesn't do that

[Panteneman]

Yep,

What RogerD has just typed.

A wideband scanner such as a Yupiteru MVT7100 would be able to receive TV audio sound, and the vision carriers (which would just be a buzzing noise).

TV DX'ers often use wideband scanners programmed with TV vision carriers to get early notification of conditions for TV DX'ing. If a scanner stumbles across one on, say, VHF Band I (between 40-60mhz or thereabouts if I remember correctly) then there is a good chance of getting terrestrial TV from far away lands.

One of the Icom scanners (the Icom R3) has a small colour screen on it to receive TV. Strange, but true...

[maggsc]

Cheers all!

Looks like I need to invest in a better scanner someday!

Chris

[g0slq]

Cheers all!

Looks like I need to invest in a better scanner someday!

Chris

Haha on the slippery slidey slope already