They Wanted To BAN This Police Radio

I had 2 of them. still have portable, but banned here too. Canada. lol cops are corrupt too. so now i have a 300.00 scanner, collecting dust... i use the internet, to listen to USA COPS.

Won't it lock on a becon then annoy you until you turn it off? Even if you skip signal won't it go back around and pick it up again?

Bet you could also pick up your neighbors cordless phone too 😂

Where can u get this at

It is totally useless in a trucked digital world.

Can an SDR be programmed to emulate the same function?

were can i get one

Did they ban police encryption anyways

I just want to know where to get one!

Here in Ohio, the state patrol and the police departments are all on the mark system. Which is a scrambled system, your radio will not be scrambled. Your scanners will not be scrambled, so you cannot hear police communications or state patrol communications

Where can I buy one links please

Used to listen to the police radio 30 years ago but all the big police forces here in Canada use encrypted radios now...

Great bit of old kit Lewis , I remember these well,,, ps, any chance of a "Roger Modder " update ? I'm hoping with this crazy Retevis/Quansheng chaos he's either well fell off the wagon and in the Trainspotting room again , that chaos with the Boafeng , the Tower in Blackpool , I can imagine that was a Little Blip compared to any Quansheng Addiction , the variants of mods , he's like Totally very strong I'd say if he's stayed loyal with Boafeng , pass my best on 😂 73s Lewis

I lived somewhere that had a phone number you could call and listen to the local pd radio. No idea how it worked or why, but whoever set it up was a legend and kept us out of multiple jams as young dumb potheads

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This radio scanner is completely useless here in the US where law enforcement agencies have gone to encripted digital service! You can sweep through the entire band and will hear nothing but noise! Unless you have the encription key, you will hear nothing!

In my County you can no longer hear the police will this radio still capture the police activity. How can I get one in the US?

Haven't done it in decades, and don't suppose it works any more with digital (and presumably encrypted) police frequencies, but in the 60s and 70s, many of us opened up cheap FM radios and added a length of twisted wire to the tuning capacitor, shifting the band range up a bit. Which often gave access to police and other official frequencies.

IF THE WORLD COULD ONLY BAN STUPIDITY,

wasn't this the same company that made the interceptor radar detectors back in the day that was far superior to all other radar detectors ?

I loved my intercepter .. I can listen to all cell phone calls all cop cars or find bugs it it was a fun toy and I still have one.

P25 encryption changed it all again. Now it's almost impossible to get P25 signals and decrypt them; possible but extremely difficult to do.

Most lawn enforcement here in the states is going from AM to a scrambled digital signal. Im sure there is a hack out there somewhere

do the police still use analog radio when communicating in uk?! in sweden that went away to "digital" probably atleast 12-15 years ago...had a police radio in my house when i moved in, it shortly stopped working after that, but was pretty interesting to listen to in the beginning...

Is there anything like this available on the market today?

I remember modifying my Radio Shack scanner to pick up 800mhz cellphone convos & 900mhz cordless phones, police calls & so much more.

Optoelectronics is first, and foremost, a TSCM equipment manufacturer. They still offer a similar, but not nearly as sophisticated, receiver called the R506 which is good up to 8GHz. It does have a non-audio mode, though, which can be configured with a beeping or vibrating alert on the interception of a strong signal.

Where to purchase ? You never uploaded a link

yes please that would be great, thank you.

I had one of these in the early 90s. Can’t for the life of me remember where I got it from or why I still don’t have it. I was a young lad about 17 or 18 years old and we got into a bunch of trouble scanning.. going to fires, gun calls, listening to phones.

I remember pulling up to a car wreck with this thing and we could hear all the police, the tow truck driver, the firefighters, it was pretty cool.. once everything switched to digital (just a few years later) I got out of the hobby.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

back then, they also had a version for analog cell phones(remember those?) It would automatically tune to the nearest analog cell phone signal near the device... it was about half the size of the unit pictured in this video, since it was dedicated to just the cellular band. of course, analog cellular service was turned of many years ago(15 or 20 years?), so the device is no longer usable if someone still has it. :)

so they spy on everyone but wont be transparent themselves. today's brown shirts wear blue.

Had a Bearcat in the 80's, a very usefull scanner.

Depending on the area of the country and size of the department, most law enforcement comms are either digital, encrypted, or both, BUT not all. A quick Google search showed that New York City is the process of converting from analog to digital. That is expected to take 5 years to complete. Likewise, Chicago is switching. However, there is loads of private companies that still use analog radios including almost all railroads in the USA.

Back in the late 1970s to 1980s the President (of the USA) was coming to town. I had a friend who found out what hotel he would be staying at and went there when the President was to arrive. He had some sort of pocket scanner in an inside coat pocket set to sweep and record the frequency on which it heard anything. He also had an ear bud to listen. At one point he attracted the attention of the Secret Service who patted him down. They weren't happy about him being able to figure out the frequencies they were using and listen to them, but once they checked him out, they let him stay.

wait this isnt techmoan 😳

i mran, yall cops still dont have tetra???

This would be of use to me on site.

😮 i want 1

As a total noob to radio. Is there a modern device like this i can use to listen in to whats going on around me. Not sure what type of things you would pick up thought. Back in my teens i had a radio i could listen to the emergency services on.

Near impossible to ban scanners, at least in the US. Its a open broadcast so there is no legitimate expectation of privacy. Nowadays most police radio is on encrypted trunk systems.

The fact that Brits are unable to listen to any frequencies they want is still disturbing to me. The First Amendment is a wonderful thing.

It's like a "shabbos=mode" radio. Google it.

Demo it. Please.

imagine what they have now with 5g and wifi............

Hello doesn't bother me I need this radio does it mean anything we shouldn't be listening to other people's conversations and if we are interested we should have a special license amateur radio operators at the end of a special license to transmit and a special antenna on the roof so many feet that's pretty cool that they had this technology back in 1993 I'm not even interested in police scanners anymore I used to be until they just scrambled it I don't need to know what's going on so thank you for this and it's cool for its time Wisconsin like scanners thank you for this information never even heard this radio until you mentioned it did RadioShack sell it

Even though I have trouble understanding British accents sometimes, the police radio is a hell of a lot more understandable than American police radio.

Where's round two?

Nice video thank you 😊