Save RF Scout as an app
Use Install from your browser menu or the address bar — it works offline on set.
Tell us where you're shooting.
We'll tell you what to bring.
RF Scout reads public broadcast data and gives you a fast band advisory for locations in the US, Canada, UK, and Mexico — recommended, caution, or avoid, in the blocks your gear actually tunes.
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Location-first
Geocode an address, venue, or city — we pull the FCC stations within range and score every UHF channel.
Your gear, your blocks
See Lectro, Shure, Sennheiser, and Wisycom block names — not just raw frequencies.
One-page cheat sheet
Export a PDF for the morning of the gig. Hand it to the 1st AC, save it for camera reports.
What it isn't
- • Not a measurement. We don't sense RF — we score predicted congestion from FCC records.
- • Not a coordination engine yet. Intermod-free set planning comes in v2.
- • Not a substitute for a scan on location. Always confirm with your receivers.
Who made this
Created by Florida Sound Man, Joe Giannotti.
Joe is a location sound recordist based in Tampa, working across Florida and on the road. He has been mixing full time since 2008 — thousands of broadcast productions for ESPN, ABC, HBO, TNT, BBC, Discovery, National Geographic, NFL Network, MLB Network and HGTV, plus documentary, commercial and corporate work.
RF Scout came out of the part of the job nobody sees: standing in an unfamiliar parking lot at 6am, trying to work out which blocks stand a chance before the first setup. The scanning still has to happen. This is about not arriving blind.
For production sound mixing in Florida, or to ask why a band scored the way it did, Joe is reachable through his site.