There was a time when it was easy to eavesdrop on police and other service radio networks. Police scanners fans can hear live police, fire, and ambulance calls. However, it isn’t as easy as it ...

[Harrison Sand] just finished a guide on how to use SDR to listen in on Police and Fire radio bands. The project, which results in the crystal clear audio reception heard after the break ...

The Lynchburg Police Department plans to encrypt radio transmissions by December, aiming to enhance officer safety and ...

As Palo Alto police switch to encrypted radio, newsroom scanners go silent In a sudden move that will severely limit the ability of journalists and citizen watchdogs to know about crimes as they ...

Some commenters on Facebook shared that they grew up listening to the scanner calls. "Grandma and I would listen to it like it was a radio show!" one person wrote. Another questioned why the public ...

the president of the Radio Television Digital News Association. “If I hear a loud explosion near my home and I happen to be listening to a police scanner, if I can't hear that information ...

Individuals who listen to scanners to hear reports about ... when firefighters responding to the same call as police could hear on the radio the exact same information that officers were being ...

The police have never provided a convincing argument for why they needed to encrypt their radio transmissions, Mark LaFlamme ...

The times of listening to police scanners in York County have come to ... according to Czech. "Every portable radio (handheld) and mobile radio (in vehicles or stations), along with all 911 ...