Police Scanners

[hullabelew]

Anyone ever owned one? I was thinking about the hand held ones so I could take it to work. All kinds of police activity around our office. Can you really get that much info from them?

 

[Lat22]

It's tough to listen to big city PD's because they use frequencies that are constantly shifting (I think it's called truncation). Small towns are a different story. When I'm bored (which is often) I'll fire up the scanner and listen to what's going on.

 

[EEE]

it depends on what type of radios your city uses. i have a radioshack pro-91 trunktracker, that would follow conversations very well. but my city upgraded from motorola type 1 or 2 to the newer, digital ericson system. so i can't use it anymore here. there is a scanner that follows the digital system, but it's about $500.