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Which police scanner to get?
Posted by: DUde ()
Date: March 05, 2009 11:19AM

Hey, I want to get a radio scanner.
I want to listen to fire and police in Northern Virginia area.

I guess I am looking at 800Mhz scanner?

Will Radio Shack Pro-95 work?

They go for around 75$ on ebay.

Thanks

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Re: Which police scanner to get?
Posted by: dono ()
Date: March 05, 2009 11:26AM

Use Teamspeak2 over the internet for free. Search the forums here for instructions - works great. If I see the fuzz in my hood I turn it on and get the scoop!

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Re: Which police scanner to get?
Posted by: k9FNC ()
Date: March 05, 2009 11:59AM

I am on a mac.
No teamspeak for me.

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Re: Which police scanner to get?
Posted by: help me ()
Date: March 05, 2009 12:29PM

I tried searching for the instructions. Nothing found. Can you help explain them?

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Re: Which police scanner to get?
Posted by: Alberto ()
Date: March 05, 2009 12:33PM

help me Wrote:
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> I tried searching for the instructions. Nothing
> found. Can you help explain them?


http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/wiki/Scanner

Really simple setup.

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Re: Which police scanner to get?
Posted by: help me ()
Date: March 05, 2009 12:59PM

Thanks man.

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Re: Which police scanner to get?
Posted by: Lurker. ()
Date: March 05, 2009 01:12PM

I have a couple of old scanners and I don't think I can pickup Fairfax County Police on any of them. Fire, State Police and the Aircraft including the Helicopter you can pickup.

For Fairfax Police you need a more advanced scanner than one from Radio Shack.

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Re: Which police scanner to get?
Posted by: Guest ()
Date: March 05, 2009 05:13PM

If you have $400 to spend I know where you can get one that will work and will still work if Fairfax eventually gets a new radio system. It will also work for the state police when their new system goes online in this area at the end of the year.

For a new one that works expect to pay around $500 from a shop.

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Re: Which police scanner to get?
Posted by: ORCGUY ()
Date: March 06, 2009 09:39PM

Yup....TeamSpeak ! Everything and then some!

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Re: Which police scanner to get?
Posted by: Gravis ()
Date: March 07, 2009 01:44AM

k9FNC Wrote:
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> I am on a mac.
> No teamspeak for me.

file.php?2,file=1943

check the bottom of the page: http://www.teamspeak.com/index.php?page=downloads


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."095042938540

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Re: Which police scanner to get?
Posted by: il ()
Date: March 09, 2009 03:11PM

I have a PRO 96 and it works great, kind of expensive though.


DUde Wrote:
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> Hey, I want to get a radio scanner.
> I want to listen to fire and police in Northern
> Virginia area.
>
> I guess I am looking at 800Mhz scanner?
>
> Will Radio Shack Pro-95 work?
>
> They go for around 75$ on ebay.
>
> Thanks

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Re: Which police scanner to get?
Posted by: Nietzsche ()
Date: March 09, 2009 11:52PM

i have a pro-135 and i love it... it's cheap and does what i need it to do...

oh yea i downloaded teamspeex and it doesn't work:

[23:44:56] Connecting to boris.serveirc.com
[23:44:56] Connected to server Fairfax Scanner
[23:44:56] Welcome to Fairfax Scanner
[23:44:56] This channel uses an unsupported codec:
[23:44:56] GSM 16.4 Kbit
[23:47:09] Guest3 joined channel

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Re: Which police scanner to get?
Posted by: werdup ()
Date: March 10, 2009 12:51AM

teamspeex uses a different audio codec-ish?
so it can't pick up the audio on this particular channel. unless the owner switches up the codecs....forgot the names...

aaaand fcpd is gone to digital trunking soooooooo
no. your[and my] pro95 won't pick up those channels

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Re: Which police scanner to get?
Posted by: Nietzsche ()
Date: March 10, 2009 12:41PM

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?stid=51

best place to find frequencies... EMS, VASP, Fire, aircraft, business, railroad, and others are still analog... plenty of stuff to listen to with a decent cheap radio...

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