Where to get a ploice scanner?

9 ploice cars 2 ambulances and a fire engine just blazed past my house.

Where and what kind of scanner should i look at buying so i can listen in on their radio frequency?

 

any airband with a wide band PSB on it in theory will pick it up, however, the police dont use one frequency, they waver so people cant listen because they transmit information. I think though there are some expensive ones that can follow the signal.

 

We have one of those - its an airband radio, it auto scans frequencies

 

they are great little things

my granddad has one the only problem with that tho is he use to listen to it every nite and always know if me and my sister were in trouble coz we used to hang about in our old primary school

 

get one that scans preset frequencies for around 100, but you have to remember that whilst it isnt illegal to listen to the police, it is to store the frequencies in your scanner .

no point really as they are all going of to digital encription in the next few months

 

Or just nick a police car.

 

da port styley

 

It is illegal to actually listen.

 

nope it isnt, got a geeky ham radio type friend and he knows a lot about this sorta stuff. and according to him it isnt illegal

 

It's legal to listen, but it is illegal to either tell other people what you have heard, or modify your actions because of what you have heard.
They're all random scan type things over here, anyway........ you can't even hear a word.

 

you can get scanners from any radio store and the frequency they most use is 452.750dont ask me why i know this!

The other option is get an ameteur radio these are great as u can locate the police frequency and also talk back 2 them and take the urine as i used to

 

i dunno, my mates got one, and apart from all the bleep bleep bleepy noises, you can understand them quite well, and when im round his id rather listen to that over the radiop or music lol.

when they go over to digital encryption, the motorway police will still use analogue (or so ive heard)

ive sat there and listened to shoot outs with the police, hour long car chases, and things going on right outside your door, which is always funny, cos you often know the peope involve or know where they are etc.

 

ive heard some scary poo on them in the past and none of it found its way into the paper....
im talking bodie found and the like.

 

I've held a full amateur radio licence for ten years.

It is technically illegal to listen to police transmissions. It is also a further offence to tell a third party what you have heard.

http://www.rbullock.freeserve.co.uk/scanners/scanners__the_l aw.htm

 

listening to mine at the min great fun round hear (Birmingham)
but theier moving to digital very soon [:^(]
hears a pic of mine i got a good antenna on the roof

 

my scanner is a realistic pro 26. it can scan abouit 200 channels in 2 seconds. i use mine in my car and it works perfect. can get anything from emergency services to mobile phones. it cost me 100 second hand. Its an industry standard.

and yes it is definetly ilegal to EVEN listen in....

 

pro 26 was a bench mark in scanners 100 is a very good price
the alinco in my pic is almost brand new and its brilliant,
also its extreamly small the dc power plug on the right hand side is a nokia phone charger !
this baby cost 160 brand new from japan

 

yes the ony disadvantage of my pro 26 is the size!!!

apart from that it can pick up every frequency that is in the area. i get welsh people on my scanner and i live in hampshire!!

the police around here are on 5 different frequencys but they tend to jsut use the single one.

 

same as us (birmingham east) they have 2 main frequencys
and a helicoptor uplink as well as a pursuit channel and a dedicated motorway one.
Any scanner with 100+ channels per second will cope easily with double this amount. I often scan the airport tower and radar controle so i know when plod are geting the the chopper out

purely for fun you understand