Learning Path — Digital Trunking & Scanning

Guidance only. The fastest route to understanding and operating digital trunked radio the way GopherTrunk decodes it.

This is a guide, not a requirement. A Learning Path only recommends an order for working through otherwise-independent modules toward competence in this area. Take them all, or pick just the ones you need — your progress is tracked per module either way.

This is the fastest route from “what is a radio wave?” to following live trunked voice systems. The modules below cover the signal, how trunked control and voice channels work, and the hardware that feeds a scanner. Guidance only — start wherever makes sense for you.

Recommended order

  1. 1. RF & SDR Signals, SDR, and how digital voice is carried. 32 lessons 6 units
  2. 2. Digital Signal Processing The signal processing that recovers bits from a noisy channel. 30 lessons 6 units
  3. 3. Digital & Trunked Radio How trunked control channels and voice calls work. 33 lessons 6 units
  4. 4. Scanning & Monitoring Apply it — build a station and follow live systems in the field. 31 lessons 6 units
  5. 5. Intro to Hardware The SDR hardware that feeds a scanner. 29 lessons 7 units
  6. 6. Embedded & Single-Board Computers Turn it into an appliance — a single-board computer that scans 24/7. 31 lessons 6 units