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I ran across this and bought it. It is a CB radio with a scanner built into it. It is really cool. It has a GPS sensor that figures out where you are then it looks up the frequencies for police, fire department, ems and dot in that area from a memory stick you update from Uniden's website. Uniden says they update the frequency list every 2 weeks.

Anyway, I drive quite a bit and this is interesting...

I also found a website you can listen to your local police if you're into that https://www.broadcastify.com/

I ran across this and bought it. It is a CB radio with a scanner built into it. It is really cool. It has a GPS sensor that figures out where you are then it looks up the frequencies for police, fire department, ems and dot in that area from a memory stick you update from Uniden's website. Uniden says they update the frequency list every 2 weeks. Anyway, I drive quite a bit and this is interesting... I also found a website you can listen to your local police if you're into that https://www.broadcastify.com/

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[–] • 1 pt

In this day and age most metropolitan police frequencies are encrypted so law enforcement doesn't have to fear the snooping eyes of the press and public. Scanners are useless now.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Yet another reason I'm thankful I no longer live in a "metropolitan" area.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

It would be terrible if somebody were to get some cheap Chinese radios and set them to transmit on those encrypted frequencies and just flew them around the repeater sites on drones. No way to take them out. No way to know who's responsible. And the entire region's law enforcement communications infrastructure is disabled for hours at a time.

I would hate for any terrible criminals to engage in such piracy because I'd like to save that trick for SHTF. No need alerting authorities to the strategy and letting them have time to prepare a defense.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Interesting...

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Unless you're in an area that demands special frequencies (mountain regions sometimes use 30MHz still,) most of the state will use the same system. For example, most of the state of Ohio uses a system called MARCS, a trunked, multi-agency comms system.