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I'm a volunteer and I have one in my house. It picks up all the police, fire and EMS frequencies I'v programmed. Also picks up most towns in Hartford county. I don't see why your guys would be any different assuming your towns police use two way radio frequencies. The only way I can foresee a scanner being useful is if you planned your trip out. Say your going 100 miles through CT. You would have to program the CT State police...

True story, they were thrying to catch me ridin dirtay?

Quote: Originally Posted by Thug. This one time i was tokyo drifting in the streets, and one of mah dawgs has this blingin cavvy wit a police scanna in it, he called me up and he was liek yo dog, popo are comin to get ya, im like yeaa dawg,...dipset..... And the i was cleana then clean. lul

Also, they don't seem to be around very long around here, what I mean is the police seem to always be getting new communication devices thus making your expensive scanner obsolete.

We have a scanner in our house because my dad is the fire chief. The scanner picks up some stuff but not all that my dads city issue radio does. If i were to program the channels into the scanner it would pick up what they were saying, but it is scrambled on most channels because the radio or scanner has to be programmed into the system. So unless you have an inside person in your police force to program your radio into the system, it really...

But what is there is a 187 in Glendale and the cops are all over it and I just want to see a 4 car wide race down the 2 mile track?

Im board and have money laying around..DOes anyone have a police scanner in there car and how well does it work?

Quote: Originally Posted by Deceit But what is there is a 187 in Glendale and the cops are all over it and I just want to see a 4 car wide race down the 2 mile track? Well then you block off the road and tell the pizza boy to find another way home. Damn street racers.

I'm not really sure why you would want one in your car to begin with...

to see what the cops are doing during street races duh.