Need advice about emergency/police scanners

[montanafan]

Hey Condor, yeah I'm hoping the guys at Radio Shack will be able to help me out, but the one I'll be buying from is about 25 miles from my mom's town, so I don't know if they'll know what's what for her area. The local Radio Shack in her town lost its franchise or something and is still an electronics store, but they don't carry the scanners any more. I'll check out strongsignals.net too.

Thanks,
Alexandra

 

[imported_Condor]

Originally posted by: montanafan
Hey Condor, yeah I'm hoping the guys at Radio Shack will be able to help me out, but the one I'll be buying from is about 25 miles from my mom's town, so I don't know if they'll know what's what for her area. The local Radio Shack in her town lost its franchise or something and is still an electronics store, but they don't carry the scanners any more. I'll check out strongsignals.net too.

Thanks,
Alexandra

The Ratshack 25 miles away probably sells into your area and will know how to do it. Good luck. Lots more sophisticated scanners out there, but Ratshack is near enough to help and theirs is good stuff.

 

[snoturtle]

hiyas

not sure yet
won't know for a few weeks

christmas gift 🙂

as for the dialing in on the ones he has now you can maually select the freqs if thats what you mean, and it does look like this thing is ready to go out of the box

bought it on the recomendation of the local police and fire dept guys we know 🙂

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: snoturtle
Just got this one for my dad as his old ones were only picking up a few of the towns around us as they all went digital
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2036235&cp=2032052.2032072
pricey but it picks up everything 🙂

Thats a darn nice scanner. From the looks of it you dont need to program in frequencies on a computer. It seems like you can dial in freq's directly, is that right?