Anyone scanning police frequencies using a radio? What's your setup like?
>>54836498
Only do that if you are a Free Inhabitant that does not fall under the jurisdiction of the US
can you even pick up their frequencies with a store bought scanner? aren't their frequencies encrypted?
>>54836640
>>54836594
Niggas Batman can do that. Why can't he?
>>54836640
Depends on where you are. I can listen to my local PD, fire, ems, etc.
dude, using listening in on police frequencies is totally legal in the US. Shits rather boring around here so I don't often bother listening in.
Also get a ham licence. 15 bucks and a weekend of your time. Totally worth it if you're getting into radios.
>>54836498
Sweet vape bro
>>54836640
The general talkgroups are not 99% of the time. The talkgroups that SWAT/Undercover/Secret Squirrel guys use usually are encrypted.
>>54836640
I can pick up Fire/EMS on my BaoFeng in urban Long Island, NY. Police freqs are encypted and on a Motorola Trunk Tracking System in the 800MHz range. Generally, smaller municipalities are probably on lower VHF frequencies in the 140-170 range and more modernized departments in larger cities will be encrypted.
You can listen to them but you need more expensive equipment. Expect to pay $350-400+ on average, though you may find better deals.
as for the legality, check your local laws. In NYS there is an exemption for Amateur Radio Operators (which I am) that protects my monitoring of police frequencies.
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A person, not a police officer or peace officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, who equips a motor vehicle with a radio receiving set capable of receiving signals on the frequencies allocated for police use or knowingly uses a motor vehicle so equipped or who in any way knowingly interferes with the transmission of radio messages by the police without having first secured a permit so to do from the person authorized to issue such a permit by the local governing body or board of the city, town or village in which such person resides, or where such person resides outside of a city or village in a county having a county police department by the board of supervisors of such county, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both.
>Nothing in this section contained shall be construed to apply to any person who holds a valid amateur radio operator's license issued by the federal communications commission and who operates a duly licensed portable mobile transmitter and in connection therewith a receiver or receiving set on frequencies exclusively allocated by the federal communications commission to duly licensed radio amateurs.
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this site is periodically updated but check your state's law yourself as well.
http://www.fireline.org/scanlaws/
>tfw wasn't paid attention and bought a radio that that didn't support UHF
Fuck, at least I have a neat little walkie talkie
>mfw access to most of the frequencies of my country's Ministry of Interrior
SDR is the future, kids. I own two "cheap USB TV tuners" aka RTL-SDR sticks and I can monitor pretty much anything out there (everything except encrypted content) in most any format be it pure analog or even digital nowadays (P25 Phase I and II, DMR/TRBO, NXDN, etc) and I spent $25 to be able to do it.
I've owned traditional physical scanners since the 1970s (yes kids, I'm much older and wiser than 99.5% of you around here) but SDR just brings it back into being somewhat fun to do and experiment with to see what's possible.
>>54840001
Quit trying to talk down to people just because you're an old fuck.
>>54840049
Take it, punk, you know you love it.
>>54840159
No it's actually pretty fucking stupid
>lol guise I'm an old fart so I'm better than you
How's it feel to know you're closer to death than 99.5% of us here?
>>54840218
Death is part of being alive.
