The Capitol Hill Monitors is a club for scanner radio enthusiasts in Washington, D.C., Maryland, northern Virginia and lower Delaware. CHM sponsors tours and meetings throughout the year. The club's newsletter supplements other hobbyist publications such as Monitoring Times.

The CHM Newsletter

The Capitol Hill Monitor is the non-profit newsletter of the Capitol Hill Monitors. The newsletter keeps scanner enthusiasts abreast of local meetings, tours, frequency profiles and other topics of interest.

The online newsletter is free. To receive e-mail notification when a new issue is posted, enter your e-mail address here. This is a private list (your e-mail is safe from spam). The dues only cover mailing costs for people who wish to receive the newsletter by mail.  Ten mailed issues are $10. Kindly make checks payable to Alan Henney.

Sample Issue: Scanning the 56th Presidential Inauguration(PDF)

The archive of past CHM newsletters can be found here

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Are you just getting started in the hobby? Then start by reading the Scanning 101 article

Are you looking to buy a scanner from a local dealer (besides Radio Shack)? Then check out our List of local retailers

Regions Covered on this page

Delaware

District of Columbia

Maryland

Virginia

Scanner Topics

Scanners	Applications	Equipment	Topics
Analog Trunkers	Software	Antennas	Connecting Scanners via USB
Digital Trunkers	Programming FAQs	Accessories	Connecting Scanners to Soundcards
Handheld Receivers	RR Web Service	Filters	Delmarva Milcom
Desktop Receivers	Aeronautical	Manuals	Glossary
PC Driven	Federal	Powering the Scanner	Modifications
	Marine Channels		Narrowbanding
	Railroad		Rebanding
	SATCOM		Reviews
			Trunking (PDF)
			Trunking Decoders
			VHF/UHF Skip

 

Maps and associated data for GPS-aided scanners (courtesy Dewey Watkins)

Maryland Eastern Shore (Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester)

Northern Maryland (Baltimore City/Co, Carroll, Frederick, Harford and Washington)

D.C. and Southern Maryland (Calvert, Charles, St. Mary's, and Prince George's)

Central Maryland (Anne Arundel, Howard and Montgomery)

 

Scan-DC Listserv

Scan-DC is an electronic-mailing list dedicated to discussion of scanner radio-related topics in the Washington-Baltimore area. List members send messages to the MailMan software which distributes the messages to all list members. Members can receive the messages individually, or in a periodic digest which collects multiple messages and distributes them as a single message.

Feel free to write, fax or e-mail for more information. We welcome frequency and visitor requests, but please include a reply envelope.

Newsletter Staff and E-Mail Addresses

Alan Henney, General Editor and Acting Treasurer ()
Dr. Willard Hardman, Executive Editor (hardman1 "at" ix dot netcom dot com)
Mike Peyton, Technical Advisor
Ken Fowler, Virginia Correspondent (kd4iiw "at" juno dot com)

For more details contact:

Alan Henney
6912 Prince George's Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912-5414
301-270-2531 voice * 301-270-5774 fax

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