Radio Scanner - Love This Damn Thing
12-29-2008, 05:51 PM
#42
If anyone is interested:
Motorcycle accident.
This is why you wear your helmets boys and girls.
http://rapidshare.com/files/17798769...estar.mp3.html
3 Car MVA
http://rapidshare.com/files/17798902...r_MVA_1010.mp3
I've heard alot of things, nothing really bothers me, but everytime I hear a EOW I get chills up my spine. (I've heard someone on my scanner but never recorded, Here is one I found online)
Pavelka EOW
Motorcycle accident.
This is why you wear your helmets boys and girls.
http://rapidshare.com/files/17798769...estar.mp3.html
3 Car MVA
http://rapidshare.com/files/17798902...r_MVA_1010.mp3
I've heard alot of things, nothing really bothers me, but everytime I hear a EOW I get chills up my spine. (I've heard someone on my scanner but never recorded, Here is one I found online)
Pavelka EOW
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12-29-2008, 09:46 PM
#45
A scanner can provide you lots of pertinent information. What crimes are being committed and where, descriptions of individuals and automobiles involved, where accidents are taking place, etc. These kinds of info can benefit a "civically minded" citizen.
Its just another source of info that is available to the public. I could care less who listens and who doesn't, but these systems are paid for with public funds, and should be available for public monitoring.
Don't knock it before you try it. It may not be your thing, but I've enjoyed scanning since I was about 12...
Its just another source of info that is available to the public. I could care less who listens and who doesn't, but these systems are paid for with public funds, and should be available for public monitoring.
Don't knock it before you try it. It may not be your thing, but I've enjoyed scanning since I was about 12...
Having a scanner could have given me a heads up on all this. Fortunately I heard about this from the neighbor and will keep my eye out from now on.
12-29-2008, 10:05 PM
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Maybe slightly off topic...But I remember a few years ago...I was on the phone with my friend on my cordless phone in my room. We we're talking and all the sudden this jamacian guy is on the phone talking about the Miami Dolphins game. I thought it was someone at my friends house who picked up the phone, but we both had no idea who it was. We just kept listening to some dudes whole conversation, it bugged me out.
I remember it happened a few times, and then hasn't happened since. Although I mostly use my cell phone these days, but why/how does that happen?
I remember it happened a few times, and then hasn't happened since. Although I mostly use my cell phone these days, but why/how does that happen?
12-29-2008, 10:39 PM
#47
I just got a new scanner for my birthday a couple months ago. It is a Radioshack Pro-528 which is only an analog scanner but it also has triple trunking. The digital scanners are nice but are pretty expensive and most of the towns surrounding me are still analog. I got one because I love hearing what the local PD is up too especially since I am going into law enforcement.
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12-30-2008, 04:05 AM
#48
Drifting
Maybe slightly off topic...But I remember a few years ago...I was on the phone with my friend on my cordless phone in my room. We we're talking and all the sudden this jamacian guy is on the phone talking about the Miami Dolphins game. I thought it was someone at my friends house who picked up the phone, but we both had no idea who it was. We just kept listening to some dudes whole conversation, it bugged me out.
I remember it happened a few times, and then hasn't happened since. Although I mostly use my cell phone these days, but why/how does that happen?
I remember it happened a few times, and then hasn't happened since. Although I mostly use my cell phone these days, but why/how does that happen?
FYI scanning cell phone frequencies these days is seriously illegal.
12-30-2008, 07:28 AM
#50
Go Giants
01-01-2009, 08:30 AM
#53
Drifting
I turned on the scanner this morning at about 1am after getting back from NYE festivities and heard a pursuit heading towards my neighborhood at speeds in excess for 100mph. Before I knew it, they were pulling into my subdivision and flying RIGHT PAST MY HOUSE! The chase continued for another few minutes and the police ended up with one in custody about 2 blocks from my residence. Police 1, bad guy 0.
01-01-2009, 12:00 PM
#55
Yea a few times. If I get pulled over, I'll just throw it under something or in the center console. It's not worth them harassing you because of it.
One time a state trooper did see it when we stopped me for speeding.and start flipping out, telling me I'm trying to impersonate a cop and shit because I was driving my Impala ss. "I thought you were a unmarked trooper car" he said. Then why the fuck did you pull me over?
But he was cool after.
One time a state trooper did see it when we stopped me for speeding.and start flipping out, telling me I'm trying to impersonate a cop and shit because I was driving my Impala ss. "I thought you were a unmarked trooper car" he said. Then why the fuck did you pull me over?
But he was cool after.
04-02-2009, 08:07 PM
#56
That was uncalled for...
I just picked up this bad boy a couple days ago:
It's a Uniden Bearcat BC250D with the optional digital card. It was pre programmed for pretty much all of Ontario, and there is some CRAZY stuff going on...
I'm still learning how to use it, I have got the scanning down, which is pretty much all you really need... I still need to find out how to dial in an individual channel...
Cops have to deal with some intense stuff, that's for sure.
It's a Uniden Bearcat BC250D with the optional digital card. It was pre programmed for pretty much all of Ontario, and there is some CRAZY stuff going on...
I'm still learning how to use it, I have got the scanning down, which is pretty much all you really need... I still need to find out how to dial in an individual channel...
Cops have to deal with some intense stuff, that's for sure.
04-02-2009, 08:39 PM
#58
I just picked up this bad boy a couple days ago:
It's a Uniden Bearcat BC250D with the optional digital card. It was pre programmed for pretty much all of Ontario, and there is some CRAZY stuff going on...
I'm still learning how to use it, I have got the scanning down, which is pretty much all you really need... I still need to find out how to dial in an individual channel...
Cops have to deal with some intense stuff, that's for sure.
It's a Uniden Bearcat BC250D with the optional digital card. It was pre programmed for pretty much all of Ontario, and there is some CRAZY stuff going on...
I'm still learning how to use it, I have got the scanning down, which is pretty much all you really need... I still need to find out how to dial in an individual channel...
Cops have to deal with some intense stuff, that's for sure.
04-02-2009, 08:59 PM
#60
That was uncalled for...
I picked it up from some guy selling it on Kijiji, I paid $300.00, that's a pretty good price for a digital scanner I've been told. Digital is needed for all OPP while local police are on analog.
I'm a little hesitant to talk about what I've specifically heard because I've been told that it's illegal to talk about it.
I'm a little hesitant to talk about what I've specifically heard because I've been told that it's illegal to talk about it.
04-02-2009, 09:02 PM
#61
I picked it up from some guy selling it on Kijiji, I paid $300.00, that's a pretty good price for a digital scanner I've been told. Digital is needed for all OPP while local police are on analog.
I'm a little hesitant to talk about what I've specifically heard because I've been told that it's illegal to talk about it.
I'm a little hesitant to talk about what I've specifically heard because I've been told that it's illegal to talk about it.
04-02-2009, 09:19 PM
#63
That was uncalled for...
There's an awesome store called Radio World on Steeles that is a great place to ask questions and play with a few scanners. I went there, played with a couple, saw I needed a digital one for the good stuff and started looking for one.
04-08-2009, 06:54 PM
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I do a little scanning every now & then but I'm more of a ham than a scanner.
04-08-2009, 08:34 PM
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Wow that radioreference site has everything not just police/fire/ems, it has prisons, colleges, nursing homes, public works, ect... I may have to get one of these scanners someday...My old neighbor where I grew up was a ham, he had this huge ass tower constructed on the side of his house and a control room in his basement. He was one of those guys with the call letters on his car and was very serious about it.
04-12-2009, 09:53 AM
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Wow that radioreference site has everything not just police/fire/ems, it has prisons, colleges, nursing homes, public works, ect... I may have to get one of these scanners someday...My old neighbor where I grew up was a ham, he had this huge ass tower constructed on the side of his house and a control room in his basement. He was one of those guys with the call letters on his car and was very serious about it.
12-09-2010, 04:53 AM
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Finally got around to programming my scanner to pick up on just railroad frequencies so I know just where to be. I took it out and was able to catch a UP freight leaving North Portland's Albina yard. I then drove up to Vancouver, Washington where BNSF has a huge yard that shuffles a ton of traffic and got a few trains out there as well.
For railfans (read: train
) such as myself, the scanner makes finding and chasing trains so much easier than just driving around and hoping for dumb luck.
Finally got around to programming my scanner to pick up on just railroad frequencies so I know just where to be. I took it out and was able to catch a UP freight leaving North Portland's Albina yard. I then drove up to Vancouver, Washington where BNSF has a huge yard that shuffles a ton of traffic and got a few trains out there as well.
For railfans (read: train
) such as myself, the scanner makes finding and chasing trains so much easier than just driving around and hoping for dumb luck.
12-09-2010, 08:28 AM
#71
That was uncalled for...
I paid for the full version (I think it's .99 cents). It's a great app, that nearly makes my $300 scanner obsolete. I say nearly because it doesn't have some of the digital feeds that the scanner can pick up, it also doesn't have air, marine or railroad.
For just listening to the po-po, EMS and Fire, it's a lot more convenient, and user friendly than a scanner.
For just listening to the po-po, EMS and Fire, it's a lot more convenient, and user friendly than a scanner.
12-09-2010, 07:01 PM
#73
The sizzle in the Steak
Why buy a radio, when an app like 5-O radio does it all.....all cities around the country, around the globe, transportation, fire, police....etc. and so on
12-09-2010, 07:03 PM
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The SETI app on my phone allows me to receive messages from our new alien overlords..
12-09-2010, 07:04 PM
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12-09-2010, 07:55 PM
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Needs more Lemon Pledge
10 years of having a police radio and I never want to listen to that again. 
12-09-2010, 08:21 PM
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