Police Scanners

Esther Hazlett · Post by **Esther Hazlett** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:35 pm

Can anyone recommend a brand of police scanner? Police action down the street (car accident) has me wishing that I had one.

Thanks!

David Lay · Post by **David Lay** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:38 pm

Radio Shack scanners are pretty good, as well as the Uniden Bearcat line.

DougHuntingdon · Post by **DougHuntingdon** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 4:49 pm

Here is one for Cleveland. Right now they are talking about people wearing black hoodies selling drugs (seriously).

http://www.cleveland.com/policescanner/

Maybe someone with a scanner in Lakewood could hook it up to their computer to stream it online? Maybe this could be part of Lakewood Observer Project Phase 5?

Doug

dl meckes · Post by **dl meckes** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 4:56 pm

We've purchased our scanners from Radio Shack. They have table-top or hand-held models.

They offer to sell a cd with scanner codes for an additional price, but you can find different frequencies online for free. Or you can ask any of the scanner addicts here to share.

Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:50 am

DougHuntingdon wrote:Maybe someone with a scanner in Lakewood could hook it up to their computer to stream it online? Maybe this could be part of Lakewood Observer Project Phase 5?

Doug

Doug

Not really high on the list right now. We are trying to build up podcasting and video options. The next upgrade is DL's on the Observation Deck I believe, and a new section.

No one tells me anything!

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Ivor Karabatkovic · Post by **Ivor Karabatkovic** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:15 am

I think we need a lakewood.com?

My brother and I have the Ritron Patriot. they're more expensive and our original use was for camping and such.. but one of them we use as a scanner. They go for miles

Esther Hazlett · Post by **Esther Hazlett** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:17 am

Thanks for the info., everyone! I think I need to do a little more research on this as far as frequencies and "trunking"(?).

David Lay · Post by **David Lay** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:26 am

It helps to have a trunking unit these days, as a lot of safety forces (police, fire, etc) use trunked systems.

Radio Shack has a desktop unit that is about $150 (at least, last time I checked...) it's trunking, has tons of presets, and has a one-touch SKYWARN button for listening to storm spotters.

Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:31 am

David Lay wrote:It helps to have a trunking unit these days, as a lot of safety forces (police, fire, etc) use trunked systems.

Radio Shack has a desktop unit that is about $150 (at least, last time I checked...) it's trunking, has tons of presets, and has a one-touch SKYWARN button for listening to storm spotters.

Esther

I would stay away from a desktop model. Get a portable, with rechargeable batteries. That way when the storm hits you have the radio and can listen to CEI and city trucks.

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Mark Crnolatas · Post by **Mark Crnolatas** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:58 am

Unless things changed, you cannot listen in on Cleveland P.D. on a scanner. Their system is scrambled, so even a trunked scanner doesn't "hear" them.

I wouldn't mind listening in on 1st District, as it encompasses W.117th area along our border. It goes from Fairview Hospital to W.65th also.

There must be some special arrangements between CPD and the Plain Dealer to allow them to receive the clear signal. Unfortunatly, it's a conglomeration of all the districts, and each district has it's own set of frequencies, as well as each special unit.

If you listen quite a bit to cleveland.com and get to know car numbers, you can pretty well figure out the general area though.

BTW, 10-4 on the Radio Shack scanners. You can find scanners by a thousand companies, but Radio Shack is convenient in case you need to take it back for some reason but the bottom line is they work well.
I have several older but exotic ones, and the Radio Shack scanners are just as good, if not better.

As far as streaming a scanner over the net, I keep an account going, that we use for playing live, with our band, over the net, for a particular virtual that we are involved in.

If anyone would like to check out www.shoutcast.com, a stream is pretty cheap, tho' you need a decent computer to run the scanner or music and also open any other software at the same time, of any consequence.

My computers are just too slow and Idon't have enough ram to do that, or I'd be happy to run LPD on my stream.

Mark Allan Crnolatas

John Guscott · Post by **John Guscott** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:15 pm

radio shack is good. the pro 97 is a good entry level scanner.
lkwd always has good scanner traffic - im listening to some PD/FD action down in the metroparks right now...

Mark Crnolatas · Post by **Mark Crnolatas** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:09 pm

How about someone pasting a currant list of frequencies to scan, mainly Lakewood, and bordering suburbs?

This thread has now produced the the urge to get out all the scanners, CB, and whole nine yards just for fun.

Mark Allan Crnolatas

David Lay · Post by **David Lay** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:12 pm

Here's a pretty comprehensive list...

http://www.scanohio.com/cuyahoga/index.html

Jim O'Bryan · Post by **Jim O'Bryan** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:55 am

Mark Crnolatas wrote:There must be some special arrangements between CPD and the Plain Dealer to allow them to receive the clear signal. Unfortunatly, it's a conglomeration of all the districts, and each district has it's own set of frequencies, as well as each special unit.

Mark Allan Crnolatas

Mark

The only involvement is that Cleveland.com pays the $1000 fee for the digital feed.

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