What can I listen to? - Scanner Talk

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[teh]

I have the Uniden 536 and 436 and they work great. I’ve been hesitant to upgrade to the SDS100 and SDS200 because of the possibility of encryption in the future. Radio Reference is an excellent resource for the scanning hobby. Great video Ape, love your content.

[jamesslick]

In Allegheny County (Pittsburgh), PA, almost every public safety system is good old non trunked UHF FM. You could get by with a Baofeng UV-5R as a (slow, but usable) scanner here. Also, the UV-5R is a pretty good "railfan" scanner.

[toms]

This video was informative and so helpful in getting me started. Thank you!

[dougputhoff]

Ape…this is just what I needed…you nailed it…thx

[bigwave_dave]

Excellent presentation -- thanks for that. It's been a couple decades since I was scanning and trunking has evolved quite a bit. I use a portable scanner for road trip (winter) travel since road works and police/fire are often useful along with NOAA wxr and ski resort operations

[maureen]

Hi, a PSAP is a Public Safety Answering Point, and used for emergency and non-emergency calls. I was in a profession for a long time in which we fielded calls from all over the country. When we received 911 calls they were automatically connected to a PSAP who then connected to the police/fire/EMS for the particular city/county/state.

Thanks for another great and informative video. You’re making it easier for me to determine which scanner to purchase.

[NJF]

Thanks for that presentation, very informative. I live in Hillsborough County and there’s tons of activity I hear on an analog Communications Receiver. I may venture into digital some day.

[Tminsquero]

This was a really informative video. Thank you

[ciscogarcia]

Great video, you answered my question, with the frequency I want to listen is encrypted. In that case I just need a regular scanner nothing fancy to listen to other frequencies around my area that’s not encrypted. Thank you

[AdobeCRT]

Thank you for helping me understand the encryption.

[arnuthiloo]

I live in the upstate NY, near Albany, and surprisingly there are MANY analog scanner freqs that still remain.

[hamradiowithkevin]

Most services worth listening to in my area ARE encrypted, this has stopped me from wanting to listen with my uniden 436HP for over a year now It is good to see you keeping after it. Nice video Ape

[Patrick_B-]

I remember getting all the crystals from Radio Shack for a handheld we got one year for Christmas. Simpler times, but it seemed really hi tech at the time.

[ellonysman]

If you dont have a scanner anymore, there's a number of scanner apps you can use. A lot of cities are on it. Indianapolis has 3 districts feeding into one feed...crazy police action there! Listener count is like 1500! Wild! I wish we could hear police in BC, Canada...miss my scanner entertainment at night! sniffle....

[jbmatey]

Hi there from the U.K. ... just a quick question about scanners ... in the old days I bought a AoR 1000 and listened to a wide range of things ... but I found just looking at digits on a screen didn’t help identify what I was listening to ... so recently I found a Grecom PSR-295 it has text info ... which I find is great for info ... there is a pc/if output socket ... so I was wondering if you know of any software that I could use to get the Freq info out ... I’m happy to manually input Freq info and text ... all the best from John

[toddrork]

Video was very helpful. If a frequency has a 400 level frequency followed by "Repeater (DMR)" what type of scanner would I need to listen to that. Could the same scanner pick up a 100 level frequency that has a mode of "P25e" (not sure what this stands for) or "FMN"?

[Sttormer]

Hey you were taking on the Mode column I have T listed. I have my old Home Patrol 2 and am getting a SDS 100 Can both pickup the T mode or only one of these can. Thanks

[omnivector]

I have been listening to a local county police scanner in my area for years on my iPhone, but the increased amount the messages that have been cutting out lately makes it almost worthless most time. Now the apps are wanting $3.00 a month or more. The county has 740 square miles and is flat farm land. I'm new to all of this as far as getting a dedicated radio. I know back about 20 years ago, the $50 Motorola radios we would use for deer hunting were pathetic at best. I know this is a loaded question, but what radios would you suggest I try for a dedicated police scanner? Plz & thx u.

[DonzLockz]

Good informative video Mr Ape. I'll need to look up that for my local area. No ocean near me but have our airport 25min drive away. I hope they are only trunked but not encrypted. :)

[justlooking]

Virginia Beach went encrypted last year. I’m in a private scanner group of just under 1, 000 people. (Which is not a lot considering how many people live here!) but we can only follow Fire/EMS/Virginia State Police now.