TG3602006 asked:

I could not find a catagory for this but i bought a police scanner a while ago and tuned into the local police agencys. sometimes i will hear the dispatch calling out to a officer and vice versa but most of the time it will scan and all of a sudden catch 2 officers in the middle of a conversation and then go back to scanning and then stop at a freq where it another set of officers and ending their conversation and its like i just totaly missed out on whats going on. I have no idea what “Trunked” means but tried to look it up and thought this might have something to do with it. If so, could someone explain to me exactly what it is and how it works and then if its possible for me to somehow catch all the action that im missing out on ?


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Derek J asked:

Okay, I have 2 questions. 1st: What are those things that you sometimes see on the side of the road that tell you how fast you are going and what the speed limit is called? and 2nd: Do these things give you tickets?!


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amy R asked:

HI, I own a police scanner, for some reason my scanner cleared out all of my scanner frequencies for my city of mesquite tx, need the frequencies for police and fire department for mesquite tx, any help would be appreicated, since I am pulling my hair out!!!


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bears_are_coolest asked:

i have a police scanner and im wondering if anyone has any websites or something like that about frequiences for my area if anyone can help please do.


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badrabbitt1 asked:

im looking for scanner codes for police -narcotics..etc that you dont get w/a basic police scanner


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hderek09 asked:

I have had my Radio Shack Pro-95 Police Scanner for about 3 years… if you know about scanners you know that you choose channels you want to scan.. for example my scanner is programmed for my county and has 8 channels for different departments… well i chose for it to scan channel 1, 2, 4, and 6, but it will NEVER scan channel 2 anymore. It jumps right over it and will not even scan channel 2. Please help me figure out how to unlock channel two or whatever I need to do to get that channel working. THANKS!!!


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sonof106 asked:

I want a cheaper police scanner (under $200) that can get a city’s frequency from about 20 miles away. I am aware I may have to but a booster, but can anyone suggest a good scanner with those capabilities?


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Geek Squad 09 asked:

i jus bought a pro-528 police scanner from radioshack, do i have to PROGRAM any frequenices in? OR can I jus SCAN untill it comesto something, and while scanning and i hear something i want to here, is there anyway u can pause the channel so i can listen without programing it. i got all my codes im jus to lazy to program them all in.
and im wondering if i turn on the squelch will it stop while im on scan and keep that channel it landed up on, and do i press the number 1 on the key pad to scan for HAM, or do i have to program in frequncies frist in order to scan i kno it come swith 150 frequncies already, it tells me all the frequincies the manual and their in the sytem alreadyu, and WHAT IS THE RANGE ON THE HANDHELD SCANNER? and where would find frequencies for the HAM radios????


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mick d asked:

hi does a police scanner ubcd 996t picks up sydney police the scanner is digital thanks mick


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Adam M asked:

I have listened to radio/police scanners for the longest time now. I have listened from anything to police/fire/ems and local buses to my actual college’s security.

I am a member of many local scanning forums for my area and surrounding areas and a member of RadioReference, which in the radio scanning community, considered the meeting place for scanner listeners.

So I’ve always assume, that radio scanner listeners are not bad people. I’ve even met law enforcement officers, fire, and EMS workers that have even joined in listening to other agencies.

Lately, I’ve been running in to a lot of people (civilians), who say that scanner listeners are just noisy people listening to information that is no concern to them. I even met one ex-police officer that said the information, especially on the EMS, is of no concern to anyone, and that listeners cause problems, yet I catch him with a scanner now, LoL.

So how do you feel? Are we scanner listeners actually good people or trouble?
I don’t really listen and be like yay, this person is in trouble. I just am amazed at how easily or maybe hard emergency services get people to safety.

On 9/11 it was interesting to see how hard the workers worked, but it sucks how bad their communication was.


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