Police Scanners for Emergencies and Weather etc

Most fire and police are using trunking technology that makes scanners mostly useless. When looking for a weather radio, look for one that has a "travel mode" (constantly looks for and locks onto the strongest available signal as you travel)

 

Scanner Radio app. free.
Mary

 

my cb has weather built in so does the radio

 

my phone has a weather app. it was free and includes doppler.

at one time i had 3 police scanners on my phone. 2 of them picked up from los angeles to new york city and miami.
of course, they do require the internet.

i never used them though so i haven't had them for a long time now.

 

Uhhhh ok, I've been scanning trunking for years.. There's plenty of scanners that can trunk. Even digital trunking. The Home Patrol is one such scanner.

 

I scan my trunk too.

looking for tools.

 

I used to love listening to my scanner.

 

I used to have one in the truck, and more often a vhf/uhf Ham radio I am LICENSED for, that is capable of scanning some frequencies I liked. I usually have various CG channels programmed, and in the winter would program the state DOT snowplow frequencies if I was in a snow area.
The snowplows turned out to be pretty interesting.

I also had some jerk at a KY scale climb up into my truck, look at the 2-3 ham radios I had in the truck (at the time) and do the 'AHA, what is this?" routine, and made me explain what every one was for.
I showed him my license, he had no idea what he was looking at.

Hey, Sherlock, scanners don't have microphones dangling from them? (free tip)

Another genius on a NC scale, soon after they banned radar detectors, did the same thing.

I wish they would go after those #### illegal linears and import radios, instead.