How many channels does your police scanner check?

[Rubycon]

AOR AR8200 mk 3 scanner here, 100 ch/s, many many things happening.

 

[DainBramaged]

a billion

 

[MX2]

Dont own one

 

[Cooler]

Its illegal where i live.

 

[ruffilb]

eleventy brazillian.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Cooler
Its illegal where i live.

That's unconstitutional.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

I'm fairly certain there are channels that yours won't get. Wife's radio gets them all and it even has a transmit button..but its an actual police radio.

EDIT: I used to have a radio that would pick up the illegal "640 range". You could not understand how busy the local hooker was.

 

[Mark R]

Over here, all the cops use encrypted digital trunked radios. No way to listen to that.

 

[Rubycon]

nt

 

[sswingle]

Dont own one. My grandmother has one, I find it to be rather boring.

 

[jammur21]

Originally posted by: Mark R
Over here, all the cops use encrypted digital trunked radios. No way to listen to that.

Same here.

 

[crab]

I have

This
This
This (PCR-1000, not -100)
This

 

[Anubis]

dont own one nor do i see a reason for owning one

 

[TallBill]

The radios my force uses are all encrypted. Thank god.

 

[Raincity]

I have an Icom, JRC and Yaesu to fill my needs. I find all the GOV chatter boring. Tropical band DXing is what I am interested in.

 

[crab]

Originally posted by: TallBill
The radios my force uses are all encrypted. Thank god.

Theres most likely ways around that. What system?

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: Mark R
Over here, all the cops use encrypted digital trunked radios. No way to listen to that.

There's three different trunking systems, all of which can be listened to with certain scanners. If they go one step further and add encryption, then without the keys you won't be able to listen in. Our local police use an encrypted setup for some things, public frequencies for the rest.

Older scanners from Radioshack did 40-2400mhz without stopping, and some had a handy feature of locking onto a strong (local) signal and telling you what frequency it was. So if you didn't have it programmed in you could still listen to it and then program it easily. They haven't sold them in 10+ years though, since it's now illegal to listen to certain frequencies (Cellular, military, aircraft).

I guarantee you can still find them though, check the local Hamheads, Ham shows, stuff like that. If you ask in the right way they'll let you know what you can and can't do.