Listening To Mobile Phone Conversations On A Radio Scanner

[@Equiluxe1]

Back in the mid 90's I had a scanner while I was studying for the RAE exam. One day while in the bath I had the scanner just running through frequencies when it stopped briefly on a stong signal , a voice said" we have done the job shall we fill in a green form" there was a reply saying "No take it down the bypass and make it look like an accident" the signal dropped out and the scanner moved on,by the time I had got out of the bath dried my hand and grabbed the scanner it had moved too far along the frequencies for me to find the channel all I know is it was somewhere amongst the frequencies marked as government allocation.

[@speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783]

😳

[@he-dp3mk]

Surely the government wasn't using frequencies the public can access for stuff like that, it was the 90s tho so it's possible

[@dandruff7807]

Why tell us you were in the bath? That's not interesting! LOL.

[@digitalchaos1980]

@@dandruff7807 I assume it was to support his closing sentences about not being able to get to the scanner in time to find what frequency it was on. 😆

[@dgolfer2]

Here in the states a lot of scanners were able to be modified for receiving the cell frequencies. I bought a Bearcat BC200 in the early 90's and used it for many years to monitor cell phones until the switchover to digital. Made some quite interesting listening. Between that and the old 49.86 cordless handhelds, those were some fun times.

[@Fcreceptor]

I had a couple that did that. I still have a Pro-2005 base scanner that works. It was unlocked and worked great for calls. We even built a project device that was for amateur electronics builders that reversed the scrambled Motorola cordless phones. I still remember the majority of conversations were related to cheating couples. Tons.

[@Dratchev241]

listened to mobile phones back in the day here in the states. also cordless house phones was another good one in the 43-44 47-48MHz range. pretty much knew what every person in the neighborhood was up to. I was like the KGB lol.

[@colinsphoneemail]

Same. Are used to use my Kenwood 742 tribander With a 6 m module. I can get on those cordless phones. Freak the neighbors out

[@jonc4271]

I know a few door down from me in around 2020, that a lady and her husband looked as they had everything But stumbling across a phone call on my scanner, the guy was asking for a loan. They asked him if he had any other credit on. He told them that he had a bit of other credit. They asked him why he wanted £1000. He told them that it was just to cover the cost of Christmas. But it go’s to show that not everyone that looks as if they have everything, truly have NOTHING.

[@patriciomunoz2830]

Lmao that's great

[@manunknown6641]

@@jonc4271 bruh... YOU had nothing.

[@musaratshah.khalil]

pleas help and cooperate me that how to get others phone calls..1999..I had listened every calls around me clearly on my T.V and Radio set...but nowadays this service not available...

[@26chan]

One of the most entertaining ones I heard on my old PRO-2004 was a client asking a massage parlour what services they offered

[@Bahama3ay]

Believe it or not I used to have an old portable TV in the bedroom that could pick up mobile phone conversations. It was one of those TV's you had to push a button in on the set to select a channel and the previous channels button would pop out, but you could do it in a way that all the buttons were in the "Out" position and no channel was selected, just static. This is where you could listen to mobile phone conversations. Great just listening to other people's phone conversations at night, probably more entertaining than what was being shown on TV.

[@maintoc]

Some people had the sets with manual tuning for UHF, similar to a regular radio dial, so you could tune in between tv stations. In some places, the tuning around UHF stations 79 or 80 would bring in wireless phone conversations.

[@pappalazarou3940]

One of the first calls i heard was a Bishop & a private detective discussing a pedophile priest..... "I think we should pass this on to the police" "Oh no need for that, i'll just move him out of the way & see he does no more harm...."

[@KingPhoey]

I had an old 80’s walkie talkie and could pick up phone calls around my neighborhood in the early 90’s. I never knew what the frequencies were but i had a lot of fun

[@Scotscan]

I remember going mobile in the back of a car with a mag mount on the car scanning 915 - 950MHz on a Realistic Pro-26 - used to hear all sorts of calls and sometimes record them. 31MHz was quite active up until the mid 00's with cordless calls too.

[@paulcarlsen4088]

I used to listen to cordless phones. I also had a Radio Shack scanner, that was modified-all it took was removing a SMT component.

[@MyDailyUpload]

I had a gadget that interfaced between my AOR scanner with an RS232 interface and my computer. Running software on the PC it catalogued all the cell phones registered in the area and I could tag interesting numbers to follow when they went active. Of course it followed frequency and cell hops. I was in a small town and quickly learned who the drug dealers and the undercover cops were along with the wealthy people in town. It was quite fun. Of course I had another scanner devoted to 49MHz cordless phone calls in my apartment building and it was also very interesting to monitor the neighbors.

[@RingwayManchester]

Great stuff!

[@TimMatthewsX]

I had one of the Moto bricks stashed under my bed for many years. The huge lead-acid battery gave me many a dead leg, and I could probably still remember which pins to bridge with a bent staple on the DB-25 :) I recall more than one weekend spent sitting at the top of escalators in London underground stations with a Nec waiting for people to turn on their phones as they exited the u/g. Fun times!

[@keiraconnolly8098]

Back in those days it was possible to decode the forward and reverse control channels and follow the call to adjacent cells one could also track specific numbers as well great fun to be had with a high gain external antenna back in those days etac cells were covering large areas unlike today so basically any phone could be a target, these days GSM up to 3G was/is insecure with SDR's 4G is somwhat secure but still can be intercepted, Obviously if one is a member of the security services they will have access to the HLR, HSS keys, and products like stingray can do its magic, though one can always force a phone down to 2g or 3g if they are set up for those services and intercept,

[@Aengus42]

When I discovered that mobiles were analogue I cut a tiny half wave dipole out of a chocolate block & some coat hanger wire. I wasn't expecting much but it worked a treat. The whole thing was just 16cm tip to tip (½ wave @ 900MHz) Fed it with some co-ax straight into my Yupiteru mvt7100. That beast was splendid! If it was broadcast, it could snaffle it!

[@jamiemoo2000]

Remember monitoring etacs mobile phones in the 90's. Vodafone, Orange, One2one. Good old days of radio scanning.

[@MrRadiorobot]

Listening to mobile phones was absolutely hilarious, you could never have believe how screwed up some people's lives were until you listened to their conversations, domestic arguments, infidelity, sexual perversity, crime, elicit behavior.. It was all there to be consumed. I took a whole week off on the sick after buying my first scanner because it was soooo entertaining.

[@RingwayManchester]

Haha awesome! I got into radio too late unfortunately so missed these days :(

[@ianharling9569]

I heard exactly the same on my scanner all those years ago .Absolutely fascinating and very entertaining.One of the best calls I heard was one from a hotel manager here in Eastbourne who ordered and I quote "a rent boy" and he said he wanted to be tied up and.......You can guess the rest.😂😂😂😂😂😂73 G7HFS

[@RingwayManchester]

Haha same!

[@MrRadiorobot]

@@ianharling9569 The stuff I heard on that scanner (realistic 2035 BTW) some of the funniest things I cant even mention here for decency reasons but I would listen tears rolling down my face , real life exposed like that, you couldnt make it up. I had recordings of some of the better phone conversations for my own consumption (a greatest hits compilation ) but the tapes got wiped over the years...the scanner would fall on an active frequency and you'd listen to the conversation, and then just as the talk was getting juicy the network would frequency hop it or it would disappear completely for a while.. Probably onto another cell..and you'd be like "ffs noooooo!" then sometimes the conversation would reappear. Listening to other radio activity just didn't come close to the cellphone networks.. It was certainly the heyday of scanning. I miss it enormously but given the potential for eavesdropping for crimal reasons it's probably best that things are more secure today for all of us.

[@ianharling9569]

@@MrRadiorobot yes I still have my Realistic PRO-25 handheld scanner but apart from Marine,Airband and my fellow radio Hams there isn't much to listen to these days.It does make a nice monitor for my own transmissions I guess.☺73 G7HFS

[@mikeburch2998]

I found that only about one in 50 calls was super entertaining to listen to.

[@RingwayManchester]

Good times, shame I missed out

[@stewart00311]

What is so bad here in the US is the scanner apps have pretty much caused most Digital Trunked systems to start encrypting. Before it was so hard for someone to program a scanner reliably so the PD and FD would not switch on encryption unless it was very sensitive.

[@jeffkardosjr.3825]

It seems many departments go digital encrypted because they think it can't be jammed such as in the case of Chicago. It gives them a false sense of security.

[@nobodynoone2500]

@@w.e.s. If you can decrypt AES/DES 256bit on the fly, that is dynamicly reprogrammable on air with a shared key, I have a lucrative employment offer for you. Look up P.25. Decoding is solved, decrypting is a different beast.

[@Realm-of-Horror]

I remember listening to a few "interesting" mobile phone conversations back in the 90's. With regards to thst chap who calls himself Scanner though, not sure what I would dislike most. The fact he'd listened to my conversation, or the fact he'd turned it into a naff dance anthem ;-)

[@mosherj666]

Just found your channel this morning, anything radio-based immediately gets my attention. We lost our beloved 934Mhz CB band thanks to the growth of mobile phones. Fortunately, many of us kept the gear and its enjoying an illicit revival, though only the top 5 of the 20 channels are useable. There are still four household near me using the older-type cordless household phones, three operating around 31Mhz, and one just below the 160 meter band. There are still interesting transmissions out there, you've just got to put the time in to find them.

[@cariza5]

All you needed was a handheld scanner and the antenna that came supplied with the handheld scanner, thoses Realistic, Netset and Radio Shack Scanners where inferior in every way to the AOR and Yupiteru Scanners, I started my scanner Hoby with a Yupiteru MVT-7100 but they suffer from battery problems due to 2x2 over lapping battery case design which caused tear and wear especially to those small metal battery connectors inside the battery compartment, a 4 in a row system which my AOR AR8200 has is best which protects the back from wearing out, I still have my AOR AR8200 Mk1 which is all mode and goes from 100khz to 2040mhz and also does 8.33khz step.

[@NOWThatsRichy]

Wow! That brought back some memories from when I bought a scanner in the mid 1990s, Some of those mobile conversations were entertaining to say the least! You could also receive the old analogue cordless landline phones too, they used to transmit around the 31 MHz band, also used to listen in to the police & fire service too, lorry drivers comms were ''interesting' too! I've still got the scanner (AOR 8000) but hardly ever use it now, not that much to hear now that's still analogue.

[@donbunson5031]

I heard a suicidal person on the day I got my scanner. I was 12 and it was Christmas day. Bummer. I got a few years of local mobile and plenty of cordless phones but as things got quiet I gave up.

[@roachtoasties]

I have a couple old Radio Shack scanners that usually sit unused in a closet. In the 1990's you could scan frequencies in the 800 MHz range in the U.S. and listen to cellular calls. As you mentioned, using a scanner you'll only get to listen to a small portion of the call until it was handed off to another frequency. Listening to bits and pieces of calls quickly became boring.

[@kissingbanditt]

I used to listen to analog cell alllll the time. Cordless phones also. Heard everything feom booty calls to guy planning how to rob a bank. Best times.

[@popeyethesailor9]

Oh yes these where the days! what always surprised me was the amount of affairs going on! (probably still does)...

[@FirstLast-fl7mo]

Humans aren't monogamous mammals. However I'm bi, my gf is so that isn't a problem for us lol.

[@peterking2794]

My first amateur radio dual band handy was a Standard C528 back in 1991. I found out that an extended receive capability was possible, and often listened to mobile phone calls on around 912 MHz. They often skipped to another 'cell' just when it got interesting. It's a good job I'm not a crim, because I heard lots of credit card numbers quoted when folk bought stuff. Great videos which have explained some antennas I've seen in the past!

[@luish19779]

I remember in 1996 I got scanner and I listed cellphone in 800Mhz. I listen the McDonals Drive The..😂👍

[@firehandszarb]

Its really got 90's vibes

[@wrtlpfmpf]

The old German "B-Netz" (1969-1994) was actually so close to the VHF TV band III that you could listen to it on some TVs. That's why the later "C-Netz" (1985-2000) included a frequency inversion scheme to prevent "accidental" eavesdropping. The "C-Netz" also marked the point where German mobile phone networks got proper authentication. Early "C-Netz" telephones used a magnetic card and sent its data over the air, later the network was switched to a SIM like with GSM. On B-Netz the telephone sent out its number and for the earlier A-Netz you were required to give the operator your number correctly. Later in the A-Netz history you were called back when your call was connected.

[@motodevcam]

I used to spend hours listening to the analogue mobiles. Also the old analogue portable phones. I could hear loads from my place on the late 90s/2000. All dect Now.

[@RingwayManchester]

Yeah shame :(

[@cliffhigson7581]

The 80s & 90s here in Australia were some much fun listening to mobile phones on the the old 500-507 mhz range. Still have a scanner but emergency services use digital encrypted so don't hear too much anymore.

[@MM0SDK]

I used to love it. All i remember from the 90's are the arguments though. Then one of them would hang up and call back again and again. Listening to the baby monitors i wasn't a fan of, a little too intrusive. It was more "fun" listening to the local post office getting robbed and getting there before the police on a pushbike (wasn't old enough to drive). The local hardware store owner tried to foil the robbery but just ended up with a black eye and on the front page of the local rag.

[@spankyharland9845]

back in the mid 90's I had scanners that were unblocked in the 900 mhz range and able to hear both sides of cellular transmissions, prior to that when the 48 mhz wireless phones were a craze, you can sit outside of an apartment unit and hear everyone's conversation- this included baby monitors too. Those were the good old days, now everything is spread spectrum white noise at 2 ghz. The only benefit to listen to cell phone conversations, you know who is the drug dealer in your neighborhood as well as the house of ill repute and their hours of operations.

[@BegudMaximan-zp2tc]

Once was on holiday in South Wales in July/August one year, in the mid 1990s I think, and had Tandy Realistic top of the range scanner, occasionally got used to while away half an hour or so, and once I'm 99% sure that was listening to Tom Jones, talking to one of his friends for about 5 minutes on around 922Mhz cellphone frequency. Amazing days before full encryption came into use.

[@sondrayork6317]

mine is the whistler ws1040 which goes from about 25 to about 1300 MHz with certain bands blocked. neat little thing too.

[@S7EVE_P]

In the early 1990s aged around 18 I had a Nokia 101, quite a large brick by today's standards but certainly at the time a compact device. My next device was an Ericsson EH237 which I kept and used until around 1997. By then other options had started appearing, including still my favourite design to this day, the Nokia 8110 "banana" phone. I think the 80s and 90s are my favourite period for tech....and probably life in general. Today it seems we are not so much assisted by tech as opportunistically smothered by it. Great videos

[@Charlottesville798]

Great vid Lewis.... I did all that in the early 90's with my uniden scanner also tone dialling from payphones to ring Russia & hack voicemails (pre GSM & when I wasn't a law abiding citizen lol) .. also I still have the NEC P3 P3 analogue phone you show & a 2 motorola 8500x handsets...73

[@RingwayManchester]

Haha awesome stuff mate! I got into radio too late unfortunately so missed these days :( Hope you're good!

[@TimMatthewsX]

Hamilton - calling the AMEX 0800 customer line then blowing tones to seize the US trunk :D Or RoxBox on the Amiga in the dying days before out-of-band signalling took over all the exchanges. Good times, good mischief!

[@normanhill535]

Old analogue cell phones were heard on Yupiteru MVT-7100, mid 1990s.

[@twinflametaurus]

Yesss. Did I see my favorite scanner , the pro 34 . Funny thing is , even today the pro 34 can do the baseband discriminator mod into the PC , and receive some digital .

[@SIGINT007]

4:45 I remember that scanner antenna in some of the publications...never got one but know people who did. It didn’t work that stellar if I recall.

[@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266]

Many an hour when I first got my Realistic base station scanner listening to the 900mhz range. People on the phone to 0898 numbers, domestic arguments, affairs, even the police ringing into stations because they were having radio issues. Sometimes if they were local and the cell site handed off to another, sometimes you could find them on the other cell by doing a quick scan One big name was Cyril Reenan who recorded Princess Diana and was named the Squidy tapes. I have the Sun newspaper with the article of him in it and photos of his R7000 Another name is / was Paul Wey who ran a website called Proma. Look him up

[@RingwayManchester]

Cheers for the info! I did a recent video featuring the Cyril reenan controversy :) do you have pics of the cutout?

[@mm7bvp]

Great video Ringway

[@N6UTC]

I hope the individuals making those phone calls got royalties for their performance.

[@RobinRimbaudScanner]

and how exactly would one find those anonymous individuals? It's a question I've been asked numerous times. With around 10 million people living in London I'm not sure of any solution to that! And 'royalties' from a tiny independent record release? That's funny in itself

[@RingwayManchester]

You should've had me around Robin, I'm good at direction finding haha! You're totally right though, it's not a possibility.

[@N6UTC]

@@RobinRimbaudScanner I was being sarcastic.

[@RobinRimbaudScanner]

@@N6UTC I wondered, but it's hard to tell in simple text! Having said that I've been asked that question so many times!

[@abujamalalali]

Thank you all . Beautiful, wonderful and useful clip. Since 1985, wireless phones have spread within 30mhz LOVHF frequencies, passing through VHF frequencies and UHF frequencies, and the analog system was prevalent, so it could be picked up on radioscanners.. Today, with the introduction of digital modification, it has become difficult to eavesdrop, especially on the TETRA system, which requires high technology to detect it.

[@Spectrophia]

I remember hearing people calling sex lines on an AOR lmfao

[@auwz66]

K1103 enters.... *music intensifies*....

[@Triumph_Explorer]

Use to do that with the yup 7100. Was my dads radio at the time. But I was allowed to listen from 17:00 to 19:00 every night lol

[@RingwayManchester]

Amazing stuff mate!

[@jamesb8305]

Oh, the fun I had with motorola bag phones... shocked I was never caught.

[@David-pf4hr]

imaging a company the finds out if your friends are talking shit on you, like yeah her names beth this is her number then bam shes hooking up with your man

[@Wa3ypx]

In the 70s the phones were on about 152.00 mhz. The mobile would pick up and a mobile operator would get the call, the mobile would tell them the number to call. Alot of the mobiles would be on a first name basis with the operators.

[@trevorforrester3142]

In the 49 MHZ. bandwidth you could listen all day long to Cordless phone conversations.... It was the perfect time in history to be dating as a man. If you wanted to know what she really thought about you after a night together, or a first date, or if you were being compared to others... All you had to do is pull off on the side of the road about 2 blocks away after you left her house and wait for her to do predictably what all women do, which is pick up that phone and call her best friend. Secondly, if the relationship bloomed past that point... if you kept your mouth shut.. You could continue to use it for knowing what she's really up to behind your back ... IF INDEED SHE WAS UP TO something. You didn't have to waste any time continuing to invest in a relationship that had already been compromised. It was the perfect early warning system. All you had to do was tape record the conversation, and then move on to other women , and ghost her. If she contacted you to find out why you were no longer contacting her... All you had to do is have very little to say to her and play her own voice back to her over the phone saying the bad things, and then say "that should answer your question", with no more discussion, and no more room to try and wiggle her way out of it, followed by never replying to her again or contacting her again. It sliced right through all the lying, trickery, and gaslighting.... providing a proof positive record of actual events. As the old saying goes..... "If you don't have anything to hide, then you have nothing to worry about" It's only the people who are guilty that avoid reality by pulling the "You invaded my privacy" card. Also ... if you buy a scanner... you are allowed to listen to any frequency you please. If it were against the law.. that frequency wouldn't be available. By being ignorant about how a cordless phone worked in those days ,, and buying a phone that broadcasted your phone conversations within 5 blocks of your house was no ones fault but your own. I was a red pill guy, living in a blue pilled world, because it gave me a HUGE head start at a young age as to the truth of what goes on in the real world of women, and not the world they want you to believe where all women are sweet and innocent.

[@johnsmithsnr9818]

Think they call that stalking now😆

[@trevorforrester3142]

@@johnsmithsnr9818 They can call it what they want as they do everything that tells the truth, that is, unless its in their best interest.

[@AnalogueInTheUK]

I've got that album on vinyl. It's name is Spore, I think.

[@RobinRimbaudScanner]

Yes indeed, and Spore was recently reissues in a deluxe digital edition with lots of unreleased music from the same time too scanner.bandcamp.com/album/spore

[@drutt1985]

I and my brother had a scanner back in the late 90s. picked up those NMT phones all the time. We had NMT 450 and 900 here in Finland. And the 450 system had the longest lifespan if i remember correctly. We only had the stock whip antenna so i guess there would have been even more activity with a bigger roof antenna.

[@RonHamilton]

Why are radios still sold with cellular frequencies blocked then? If you cannot listen anyway?

[@nathanpetrovski7525]

I've always liked the sound of analog phones. Unfortunately, I wasn't even born when the networks were shut down in Australia. I got my first scanner in 2012 when I was 10. Are there any places in the world where analogue phones still work?

[@Roxor128]

Build your own workalike, perhaps? Could be an interesting hobby project involving both radio and a DIY phone network if you've got the electronics skills.

[@thehelpfultroll9032]

I still have some Motorola phones from then. You could also join in others conversations but their main use was esn/min grabbing.

[@RingwayManchester]

Great stuff Tim!

[@parahenkie0104]

i used to listen to analog DECT phones over here in the Netherlands on scanner at 31,0375 - 31,3125 MHz

[@RingwayManchester]

Yes very good fun, fading away now though :(

[@EzeePosseTV]

Legend has it that the girl still isn't loved enough to go see her tonight!

[@RingwayManchester]

I heard she's still on the phone askin him!

[@rahmanbabaofficial2009]

Great video Sir,please tell me,which one frequency use for the mobile conversation listening,vhf or uhf?

[@RingwayManchester]

None. Obsolete

[@rahmanbabaofficial2009]

Ok thankyou sir. Sir,but please tell me, which one radio sccaner or device use for the mobile calls listening conversation..?

[@RingwayManchester]

None

[@rahmanbabaofficial2009]

Ok

[@Anthony-by3yw]

Wow Lewis a real blast from the past and I was one of those people that got in trouble doing this in the 90's when I got caught in my younger days reprogramming analogue phone systems . Like the other person who commented my tools of the trade for sniffing esn and names numbers was the nec p3 with a super chip fitted and the 4800x grabber connected to the local cell tower etc . I also used to use a motorola Microtac2 by taking off the rear battery and placing a piece of wire between the centre terminal to the right hand terminal of the phone and sliding the battery back onto the phone which would activate the test mode and again on the p3 you would take the battery off quickly and then type recall *01 recall #71 1371# and it started scanning for calls on the mobile phone network . In them days you could also break into a phone call with this test mode and actually talk to a caller which would shock them. Also we used to hack into the pager mailboxes with the phones but again I'm not proud of my younger days of meddling and at the time the police took it very serious and the cellnet and Vodafone wanted to make an example !! It taught me a lot and I think I still have the p3 somewhere just to remind me of my stupidity mate :)

[@RingwayManchester]

Wow really that's interesting! Thanks very much for commenting with all this info!

[@kingsleypinny4400]

AOR can be used as a tool for listening to mobile Phone conversation nowadays ?

[@RingwayManchester]

Nope

[@driverfilmsshortwavechannel]

I wonder if anyone went to one of Robns gigs and heard themselves? At least there are some wireless headphones to listen too, or would you want to find out what people are listening too?

[@RobinRimbaudScanner]

I had people approach me and ask if I had been scanning them. I would then ask them if they had used their phones during the gig and they said no, so it was interesting to learn how little people recognised their own voices too!

[@davidsradioroom9678]

In the US, I had a tiny television that would capture audio in frequencies that were not used here for television. There were a number of cell towers in the 800 MHz network. Fun to listen to.

[@mikeburch2998]

We experienced a tv that would receive regular fm radio frequencies ones back in Highschool.

[@davidsradioroom9678]

@burteriksson Wow.

[@davidsradioroom9678]

@burteriksson One wonders who that really was. 😉

[@dsldude1152]

I remember it went out with a bang though as some of the first PAYG phones where on Analogue, the likes of the Nokia Ringo being quite cheap from memory, so there was quite allot of traffic upto the late 90's.

[@wisteela]

Fascinating stuff. I've actually got one of those big Motorola phones. I found it in a pile of stuff near a farm. I love the idea of making music from it. I'm going to see what I can produce.

[@RingwayManchester]

Good stuff mate!

[@hjerry7425]

Back in the late 80's early 90's i found baby monitors to be interesting if they were located in the living area of the home

[@RingwayManchester]

Haha yes true

[@nottjohn9418]

NEC P3 was my first mobile phone. Good times.

[@3qdx]

Yes, that was in the days of Analog but you would think with today's technology in the digital scanners, that we could still somehow monitor cellular band traffic.

[@moshyraja3141]

SDR RADIO CAN DO IT🤐

[@3qdx]

@@moshyraja3141 What model of SDR can do the Cell Band ? Do you have one?

[@moshyraja3141]

@@3qdxits not plug and play its encrypted but you will need 2tb with rainbow tables to brute force and bam😈

[@3qdx]

@@moshyraja3141 Ahhh, OK. I didn't think it was as easy as pulling up that freq. on an SDR and monitoring. Thanks.

[@moshyraja3141]

@@3qdxit openly available on how to if if your techy on linux opens up door interesting stuff in lockdwn nothing but keep busy 👌😬

[@juliogonzo2718]

Used to listen to cellphones in Canada with a scanner in the early mid 90s as a young boy. you could get them in the low 800mhz for some reason. Definately was not cordless phones as you could get it 24/7 and no way that many people were on cordless phones in the neighborhood. Probably corrupted me a bit lol

[@bcnewsvideo]

AOR-82000 wideband radio receiver, government version, it wasn't available to the General Public. The two most popular conversations after 10 p.m. couples arguing and Drug deals. If you knew what you were doing, you could track an individual cellphone conversation. Each cell tower has a set of frequencies for transmitting and receiving. There are two ways to monitor a cellphone conversation. (1) monitor the cell tower frequencies. (2) Monitor transmitting frequencies from cell phones. Example, if you saw an individual talking on their cell phone, you could monitor their conversation within 30 seconds. It's a good thing that communication companies converted to digital. Now the general public can't listen to your private conversations.

[@kingsleypinny4400]

1 question ,you meanAOR want be able to any conversation on the cell phone anymore ?

[@RingwayManchester]

Nope

[@bcnewsvideo]

@@kingsleypinny4400 AOR has a new scanner that can listen to digital cellphone conversations, but it’s only available to law enforcement and Government.

[@Havanacuba1985]

I listened on a pro 46 net set radio shack scanner, also a Motorola phone that you could ground one of the contacts with some silver paper and program it to act like a scanner

[@seeker1432]

I have no idea what I was doing, But once picked up phones of many conversations on a satellite dish.

[@HowardMessias]

Moto 6000 separate D connector and a couple of button presses, listened to all!.

[@davidcurrie8564]

I'm Surprised he wasn't complained about with that antenna by the old biddie brigade!!! i see he had a rotator on it Brilliant!!

[@26CW128Jake]

Absolutely cracking video!

[@TonyLing]

Lewis goes from strength to strength

[@RingwayManchester]

Thanks Jake!

[@RingwayManchester]

Thanks Tony!!

[@geordie2849]

hi is there anyway to listen to police radios.

[@xxch4osxx]

Most police departments are now using encryption, so most likely not.

[@RingwayManchester]

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[@maintoc]

There are free computer apps, such as Police Scanner and Police Radio Scanner.

[@JoeR203]

And the US government still listens to cell phones.

[@richardjellis9186]

You're in the US government are you.? Or are you repeating what your dad's, mates, sons mate told your mom he'd heard.? Fuck me. It's idiots like you that makes people think that covid is from aliens.

[@ExtremeSquared]

@@richardjellis9186 Are you saying that police who have StingRays on their publicly available budgets are lying and don't actually own StingRays? That's too much of a conspiracy theory for me.

[@metalbill]

I used to be able to use an old tv up at channel 82-83 and fine tune the tv to listen to cellular calls.

[@mduffy5453]

This was class.

[@fredflintstoner596]

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

[@martingibson5636]

those were the days many an hour spent listening to mobile phone frequencies 49 mhz was another good place to listen to cordless house phones

[@iLuvTenerife]

Yes, the home analogue wireless phones (before dect) were fun because you could her you own neighbours. 49 Mhz was paired with 1.8 Mhz I seem to remember.

[@MM0SDK]

Yes, the same frequency for baby monitors too but i didn't like them as felt they were a step too far. Too intrusive.

[@martingibson5636]

@@MM0SDK never listened to them as i agree a step too far

[@brandonbarr2784]

Those were the days

[@ianhand5006]

On a Motorola, the channel command was, 11 followed by the channel number. So channel 323 would be 11323#. 05# keyed the transmitter and I've forgotten the rest. If you knew the correct supervisory audio tone (sat tone) and were close to a cell site, youcould talk over people ....apparently. 😉

[@BTSBlueMoonARMY]

I want to buy one where can i buy it?

[@humlakullen]

Just get what the cops have. A "Sting Ray II":-)!

[@Giggler.]

NEC p3 Daddy of all phones, oh I remember and miss the good ol dayz bashers bashing and scanning calls lol. Thanks to BONES..

[@TonyLing]

5:06 IC-R7000

[@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266]

I had one and sold it and regret it. Drove all the way to Icoms in Herne Bay to service it and have it aligned. I could cry for selling it

[@Ptpop]

What would you need to listen to them now?

[@RingwayManchester]

To be working intelligence probably

[@mikehollibaugh]

Absolutely brilliant work. 73 from KI6HHJ

[@markg6jvy135]

Quality video as always Lewis thanks 👌

[@RingwayManchester]

Thanks mark!

[@km6mmo843]

Brilliant mate

[@benrosenberg3489]

New subscriber!

[@RoydanStyles]

Can you still listen to phones now if you have a Ham ticket?

[@RingwayManchester]

You need the super advanced, it allows you 100w on 917mhz

[@Jason-io5bu]

They were great days

[@Overlanding_Exploring]

Fantastisc piece of radio history.

[@RingwayManchester]

Thanks so much!

[@sm6wet]

GSM han be listened to also. Just need the right decoder and scanner software.

[@SocialistDistancing]

I got a scanner in 96. I used to.listen to the odd cell call. One day I heard someone that i knew making plans to meet up for coffee at a restaurant. Another occasion I heard two popular radio show hosts talking. A male and female. He was on about how he wanted her and she was repelling his advances. What's funny about that is, he married a woman that looked almost identical to his cohost. Bizarre. I listened to the local police on a trunking system.. all that has since changed. You can't listen or it's encrypted. However, like anything, someone is out there right now working in breaking through it all. After all, computers can ve hacked. Just give it some time. The CIA and MI5 routinely conduct such operations.

[@jonc4271]

I know that I had a scanner, and would pick up calls of all sorts. Remember a grocery shop talking to an other shop about the price of strawberry’s One shop was selling them for 50p a punnet, but NOT selling many. But the other shop had been selling them at 75p and had just about sold out, and for the first shop to ship some to that shop. But it would be quite good if I was able to once more pick up phone calls. But in saying that, I think that a lot of dross would be on it. As children have mobile phones. But back in the day, it was JUST adults that had mobile phones. If you know a way to be able to pick up phone calls in 2022, G3/G4 or G5. I know that the right scanner can pick up the signal. It is just in getting the right kit to decode them. If ANYONE knows how to do this, could you point me in the right direction. Hope someone gets back to me 👍🏼

[@michaelcarey]

I had LOTS of fun when the analog AMPS phone network was still used in Australia. A Motorola AMPS phone in test mode can do a lot of things... but I have said way too much already! :-)

[@moshyraja3141]

Nistolgah esn scaning 90s we need you back😈😁