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To: LucyJo

“Also at KOMO it’s possible to listen to police and fire scanner live,”

Do they still have police radio scanners? My dad had them back in the 1970s but I’m not sure if they work this day and age with more modern and private communication between officers.


41 posted on 08/28/2009 10:50:51 PM PDT by NavyCanDo (Are you better off than you were 4 Trillion dollars ago?)
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To: NavyCanDo

Don’t know. Just saw the link for it there.


46 posted on 08/28/2009 10:53:51 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: NavyCanDo
Do they still have police radio scanners? My dad had them back in the 1970s but I’m not sure if they work this day and age with more modern and private communication between officers.

Yah, they're still around. Sometimes police/fire use encrypted comms, but sometimes not. Tonight they seem to be talking about this stuff in the clear.

47 posted on 08/28/2009 10:53:52 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: NavyCanDo

Mostly they don’t work anymore. Nowdays they use encription and special radios that jump frequencies several times a second. If you don’t have a radio programmed to jump the same frequencies the same time, you can’t hear a thing. Lots of small communities still use the old style radios though.


54 posted on 08/28/2009 10:56:34 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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