[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 ...

By Shannon Fiecke, Correspondent  Lots of people have gone into the Radio Shack store in Shakopee recently to inquire about digital-compatible police scanners, said store Manager Matthew Fiega.

“Several times over the scanner I’ve heard ... His fellow fire department colleagues could not find him for 30 minutes because his radio had broken. While the firefighter ended up surviving ...

This means that the current publicly available scanner information ... the Austin Fire Department and Austin-Travis County EMS to an encrypted radio system "protects personal and confidential ...

The question of whether police radio transmissions should be encrypted has strong opinions on both sides. My father was Chief on the Prior Lake Fire Department for many years, so I know how ...