[Electronics-talk] Police scanner question

[Gabe Vega]

I have an app on my Iphone (that has a built in screen reader I may add,)has
an app I use called Police Scanner that lets me listen to police, fire, emt
and news frequencies locally and all over the world.
 


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Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 5:59 PM
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Subject: [Electronics-talk] Police scanner question

Hi Ken here with a question that I don't think comes up much.  I have  a
scanner, and while I know the search function to find frequencies isn't
blind friendly, I seem to think programming into the private bank is.  The
Scanner has preprogrammed into it frequencies in a Police and an EMS/fire
bank.  
There are so many in the police block I've hit the lockout button so  many
times I've lost count.  I finally found the Rahway NJ police and am
listening to it.  What I'm trying to do is program it into the private bank
of fifty channels.  Supposedly what you can do is when you're scanning and
you hit a frequency you like and want to put it in to private channels, you
first put the scanner on that spot by hitting the hold button.  Does anyone
remember the correct sequence of the programming function, in other words in
what order do I hit the private and program buttons to lock it in to the
private  bank?  I think I lost the book.  It's a bearcat forget the model
number, but as mentioned it has frequencies preprogrammed into it.  Police
EMS/fire, Ham Radio, marine and aircraft, and weather all have frequencies
programmed in to it.  There are in the EMS/fire and police banks slots to
add more frequencies to it.  I forget how many frequencies are in each
group, but the police had a lot of electronic sounds, Birdies and other
continuous transmissions that had to be locked out and that doesn't count
all of  the NYPD and FDNY and EMS frequencies that are all over the 470 and
480 MHZ  bands.  
Again this is a Bearcat scanner.  
 
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