Legality of a Scanner in my truck ?

As you can see, everybody has an opinion on this. The best way to know for sure, is to check the laws of the states you are operating in.

 

For whatever it may be worth: http://www.fireline.org/scanlaws/scanner5.html

 

I remember when I replaced in my landline for a wireless. [emoji4]

 

If I had my way, I'd still have a old style rotary dial desk phone! The quality of those, is unbeatable to this day. Of course, they didn't make enough money, because they'd last practically forever. So now it is much more money, poor quality sound, has to be recharged, won't last more than three or four years, can't hold the phone between the shoulder and head like you used to, and MOST OF ALL: IT JUST DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME SATISFACTION WHEN YOU SLAM IT DOWN on some idiot telemarketer, survey taker, or other undesirable!

I remember putting a hole in a desk top one time from slamming the phone down. (I also remember getting my arse beat for it by my old man, but that is another story.) Now, it would just shatter the phone!

 

My friend has a very old black rotary dial phone from like the 40's or 50's. The hand held part weighs like 50 pounds. She bought the phone and sent it out to have the inside converted to work. The dialing part is just so cool with the clicking and made to withstand a direct mortar hit

 

LOL, miss those days. Some of the juicy stuff you would hear. General hospital couldnt hold a candle to it.

 

so you all talk about trunking, and jumping and frequencies and what not.

so what are the phone apps relaying over the speaker if they require licenses and permissions and what not????

 

^ and what do you expect to hear when they are not talking?


I wasn't that interested in listening to the cops when I had a scanner in the truck, or multiband amateur radios with expanded rcv capabilities.

I did plug in the snow plow frequencies for some of the state hwy depts. They were pretty handy in bad weather.
I also liked marine vhf channel 16, 22a. Always had them programmed.


People still don't understand that anything that you can communicate on, is 'wireless', can be listened to by somebody.


The wireless baby monitors people used could be heard blocks away, just like cordless phones.

The headsets they used in fast food drive throughs also.

Most of the interesting stuff you could hear is not what you would expect.