8 Days until the 2018 Hamvention

The Dayton Hamvention is only 8 days away. We are ready!

Friday, May 18 – 9AM to 6PM
Satruday, May 19 – 9AM to 5PM
Sunday, May 20 – 9AM to 1PM

Greene County Fairgrounds
120 Fairground Rd
Xenia, OH 45385
Booth 3303 | Building 3

We have all of our table signs printed and ready to go!

We have the Uniden Bearcat SDS100 loaner ready to go.

All of the stock is packed and ready to head west

We got the maps, tour books and the AAA TripTik. Thank you AAA Southeastern New England!

Follow Jonathan Higgins and Rich Carlson trip the Dayton Hamvention starting Tuesday, May 15 on Facebook!

Scanner Master to Demo the BearTracker 885 at Dayton!

BearTracker885If you are attending the Dayton Hamvention this year please be sure to visit the Scanner Master booth (Booth 3003 in Building #3) to see the new Uniden BearTracker 885. This is the revolutionary new CB radio with a digital police scanner built-in. Or is it a digital scanner with a built-in CB? Whichever way you look at it, it is a neat radio!

Join Scanner Master’s Rich Barnett and BuTel’s Gommert Buijsen as they demonstrate current radios, accessories and software as well as the new BearTracker 885.

While the BearTracker 885 is not yet available for sale pending FCC approvals, you can see it in person exclusively at the Scanner Master booth!

Hamvention is held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 19-21 2017 at the Greene County Fairgrounds in Xenia OH, just north of Dayton.

Join the waiting list for the Uniden BearTracker 885.

2017 Dayton Hamvention

The 2017 Dayton Hamvention is going to be held from May 19 thru 21, 2017 at the Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center in Xenia OH. This is the first year for Hamvention to be held in the new location and we are very excited about attending this year!

Rich Barnett and Gommert Buijsen (Author of the Butel ARC programming software) will be manning the booth this year. We will of course have a wide variety of scanners and accessories available at great prices.

Be sure to stop by at Booth 3303 (in Building 3) and say Hi to Rich and Gommert!

Scanner Master Road Trip – Upcoming Dayton Hamvention

By Richard Barnett

Dayton Hamvention 2012
Location: Dayton, OH – Directions
Dates: Friday, May 18, 2012 – Sunday, May 20, 2012
Booth: #402 – Show Map


Scanner Master will be back at its usual inside booth #402 at the Dayton Hamvention in Ohio from May 18th-20th. Rich Barnett will be there along with Gommert Buysen of Butel ARC Software. If you’ve never been to the Dayton Hamvention it’s the world’s largest gathering of Ham radio operators including a great many scanner enthusiasts. GRE, Icom and others will have booths and Rich and Gommert will be in the Scanner Master booth to answer any questions and of course sell scanners and accessories.

Please stop by and say hello and take a look at some of our new products and accessories.

Make sure you check the Scanner Master Blog for updates from the road to Dayton, OH.

Road Trip back from Dayton Hamvention

By Richard Barnett

Destination: Dayton, OH
Event: Dayton Hamvention
When: Friday, May 20 – Sunday, May 22, 2011

Dayton Hamvention Report

Gommert Buysen of Butel Software and I just returned from the Dayton Hamvention in Dayton, OH. The Hamvention is the world’s largest Ham radio show and has been held every year in late May since the early 1950s. For the past dozen or so years Scanner Master has had a booth at the show where we meet scanner hobbyists and amateur radio operators, talk scanners and show and sell scanners and accessories.

We drive out to the show each year from our Massachusetts offices and this year we brought with us the Uniden HomePatrol HP-1 for the ride and mounted it on Uniden’s new windshield suction-cup mount along with our Garmin GPS receiver kit to provide the HomePatrol with constant automatic position data. This set-up was simply amazing. We did not have to touch the HP-1 more than a couple of times on the entire route from near Boston to the far side of Ohio. The radio constantly updated the active channels based on our location. As we drove the State Police/Highway Patrol was always active and the county sheriffs and local police channels enabled and disabled automatically as needed. If we wanted to listen to fire services as well we just pressed the menu key, pressed the select service types key, and the fire key. That’s it.

At the show the HomePatrol received universal praise from other very serious hobbyists as well as Ham radio operators for its ease-of-use and, like us, everyone who drove to the show with the GPS functionality on were simply wowed at how well it worked. As the RadioReference database which fuels the HomePatrol gets better and better every day the radio becomes more of an incredible tool. Yes we’re gushing, but this scanner deserves every accolade it gets.

We’ll have more on the show and other radios that people loved in an upcoming posting.

Rich Barnett

Road Trip to Dayton Hamvention


Destination: Dayton, OH
Event: Dayton Hamvention
When: Friday, May 20 – Sunday, May 22, 2011

Scanner Master will be back at its usual inside booth #402 at the Dayton Hamvention in Ohio from May 20th-22nd. Rich Barnett will be there along with Gommert Buysen of Butel ARC Software. If you’ve never been to the Dayton Hamvention it’s the world’s largest gathering of Ham radio operators including a great many scanner enthusiasts. GRE, Icom and others will have booths and Rich and Gommert will be in the Scanner Master booth to answer any questions and of course sell scanners and accessories.

Please stop by and say hello and and take a look at some of our new products and accessories.

Hara Arena – Map
1001 Shiloh Springs Rd.
Dayton, Ohio 45415