They Wanted To BAN This Police Radio

[@Sevenigma777]

You know damn well regardless if this video is popular or not there's still s bunch of us who want to see you demo this and see what you can still do with it!

[@jaymzx0]

Yes, for sure. I remember seeing these advertised back in the day and thought how cool it would be to have one, but as mentioned these things were made for people who had a specific need for them and the means to acquire them. I was just a kid who wanted it to get into trouble. Optoelectronics had lots of cool things like that.

[@johnh10000]

For sure Lewis will take it for a walk...

[@appalachianunderground8474]

LOL 😂I’m trying to find one to purchase while I’m watching this 😅

[@nikushim6665]

Not much, you could do the exact same thing with most modern transcievers. Nowadays most police radio is on a trunk system, this thing would just pickup digital noise. You would have to use something like a SDR and GNUradio and decrypt the traffic.

[@BillAnt]

You know there's a bunch of old radio geezers on here reliving their youth by going down memory lane, myself included. I remember looking at the advertisement of these receiver in scanner magazines, drooling over them with the eye-watering high price. They ran $400-$1000 depending on model, frequency range and sensitivity. They even has a special "law-enforcement" model which was just a dream for the hobbyists. :D

[@matambale]

Indeed Lewis we need you to take this out into the field...

[@jamesslick4790]

My grandfather was a cop, He not only gave me my first scanner (in the 1970s, when those were EXPENSIVE) he got me the crystals (no digital programming then!) for the City of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania). In my experience, most cops are not "fans" of scanners, But most firefighters are. My old (pre internet) advise to scanner newbies was to ask a FIREMAN to give you the local frequencies, not a cop. LOL

[@volvo09]

I had one of those scanners as a kid. Got it from my grandpa and got crystals for it, only to find out the towns police moved to something that garbled transmission. But I could still get fire. It was cool just getting it to sort of work, even though I knew it was out of date.

[@NOWThatsRichy]

I can still remember back in the 1970s & 80s, in the UK, when anyone could listen to Police & fire service transmissions, as they used the top half of the FM broadcast band 2, around the 101 MHz frequency.

[@user-marco-S]

@NOWThatsRichy In the Netherlands, around 101 or 102 MHz was used by i don't know who. The police used 86 to 87 MHz and some people did detune their radio so that they could listen to the police. @jamesslick4790 If you had a scanner, (almost) all frequencies (police, fire brigade, taxi etc.), could be found in a frequency book written by a hobbyist.

[@SKYNET9er]

Betty Bearcat was a "phonebook" type publication in the US we could buy. Had all US freqs.

[@Teknofobe]

​@@NOWThatsRichyAs did the UK, prison service. Prisoners where allowed transistor radios, but they had to be am or mw, only. As if they where fm, they'd be able to monitor the officer's radio traffic.

[@kd6pn]

That receiver is so useful for knowing if you are under surveillance. My unit carried one in Iraq and it was great to know when trouble was coming.

[@TURK_182]

​@SAMSUNGS-yo4tc correct, it's a receiver not a bomb detector

[@MHLivestreams]

I successfully used my scanner and heard a surveillance team on my case, back in 1991

[@StayMadNobodycares]

Police here don't use those frequencies anymore. at least for spying, the days of white vans with reels of tape and black and white screens is over.

[@ocsrc]

In the US. General Electric made an 11 band analog dial radio. It covered 25 Mhz to 30 Mhz AM It also did 25 to 88 Mhz FM It did the TV bands. It received the VHF Air 108 to 136 AM And it did the VHF FM 136 to 180 Mhz It did UHF too I remember in the 70s listening on this 20 year old radio to my local Police department on 155.610 Mhz I used to sit at the end of the runway of the airport and listen to 119.5 and 125.0 as planes departed and landed

[@deanagoes2791]

I used to do it with a Yaesu VX3R. In fact, not only can this radio be used to monitor, it can also be used to transmit in non-amateur bands.

[@DCDura]

Other companies did back then too. I have one from Allied Radio.

[@jamesslick4790]

I had a HUGE "Ross" Multiband radio that covered "everything".(LW/MW/SW/VHF/UHF..) It was as big as a "boombox"(but it was mono) the front was 95% analog dial. I really miss that beast!@@DCDura

[@AMPProf]

That thing was weird af. Now I know why in 95 it might have smelled

[@gumarogram8559]

I previously owned that model and it was exceptional! I vividly recall connecting a JMF band filter around 800MHz, which made it incredibly exciting to use while driving, allowing me to intercept nearby cellphone communications. I had acquired the first-generation model, which later required a modification due to its inability to maintain the captured frequency. Additionally, I possessed an Icom R-1, which was remarkably compact. Whenever I was in proximity to someone using a cellphone, simply removing the antenna would enable me to detect the nearby frequencies.

[@robertstratton6444]

Optoelectronics' products were amazing. I had their Scout, which with a little mod to an AOR handheld scanner would work like a frequency counter and would tune the scanner in real-time to the strongest signal. It was a powerful capability for the time. 73, W4CUB

[@nataliegrn17]

Don't they still make the scout?

[@robertstratton6444]

@@nataliegrn17 I don't think so. If you go to their site now, they have a few frequency counter/tone decoders and bug detectors, but I don't see any that have quite the same feature set as the old Scout.

[@whatcher8151]

SCOUT GOT EVERY FREQ. LOGGED

[@dragonlard4595]

A look at the PCB, or even a Schematic would be very interesting.

[@michaelcarey]

I always wanted one of these gizmos, but was a significant purchase for a young lad. I was able to pay off my Realistic PRO-2004 as a worked at a Tandy Electronics dealer store. I also remember that Optoelectronics made add-on boards for the Realistic PRO-2005 & 2006 scanners that allowed them to be computer controlled and did cool things like CTCSS decoding.

[@BillAnt]

I remember looking at the advertisement of these receivers in scanner magazines, drooling over them with the eye-watering high price. They ran $400-$1000 depending on model, frequency range and sensitivity. They even has a special "law-enforcement" model which was just a dream for the hobbyists. :D

[@richardchambers256]

I had a 2004 great scanner

[@scottlarson1548]

Since cell phones were all narrow band FM back then, you could use this to listen to a nearby person's phone call. In most U.S. scanners the cell phone ranges were blocked but could usually be reenabled by removing a resistor or diode.

[@cd3949]

I used my old black and white TV which had the upper channels (70-83) to listen to cell phone conversations lol

[@TheCleaner6969]

Yep & was useful for 900mhz to

[@michaelcharach]

I remember modding my base station realistic. They made it really easy.. oh and the photocopied sheet with all the local frequencies in my area…

[@greenonions7978]

@@cd3949 do you mean cordless phones?

[@AdamSWL]

Brings back great memories from the peak time of scanning! My kit of choice was an Icom IC-R10 and Optoelectronics Scout 40 with reaction tune and CI-V cable. Had to sell a kidney to get that setup, but it was absolutely brilliant at events like Airshows or the Grand Prix. REALLY wanted the Explorer when it came out but you need at least one kidney!

[@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266]

I had the same setup !

[@Nif339]

You need to take this out, perhaps up near Bowstones above Lyme Park, near that house where all those aerials are.

[@alanslade2319]

That took me back, not that I had one. But I used to go to the my Nans and listen on her radio on FM right at the end just passed the 180.00 very old radio but work great for listening to the police and taxi bands. Thanks for your work love all what you do AlAN from Luton.🇬🇧💯🍻👍

[@jackwaycombe]

Haven't done it in decades, and don't suppose it works any more with digital (and presumably encrypted) police frequencies, but in the 60s and 70s, many of us opened up cheap FM radios and added a length of twisted wire to the tuning capacitor, shifting the band range up a bit. Which often gave access to police and other official frequencies.

[@oliverw.douglas285]

Still have my R10, along with the matching APS104 Preselector. Both need new battery packs. Optoelectronics had a host of other interesting devices. More on this subject would be very entertaining. :) In the late 1990's, I actually bought an Explorer, unlocked/with no frequency blocks, from a radio shop in Canada. It wasn't terribly cheap... around $1,000 USD. I found that the front end of the receiver overloaded quite easily, even with an attenuator in series with the antenna. A preselector was the only way to make the receiver usable. In the end, I sold the Explorer, favoring my Intercepter in conjunction with the APS104 Active Preselector. Optoelectronics also had a series of inexpensive 'tools', called Tech Toyz. They consisted of a frequency counter, a signal strength meter, & a DTMF (i.e. Touch Tone) Decoder. Each of them was built into a pager case, required one AA Battery, & looked remarkably like a Motorola Bravo Classic Pager. I have the Frequency Counter & the DTMF Decoder. Both are very handy.

[@douro20]

Their catalog isn't nearly as extensive anymore. And their newer version of this receiver- the R506- isn't nearly as sophisticated either, though it does extend the frequency range to 8GHz and has a non-audio mode which can warn you of an intercepted strong signal with a beep or vibration.

[@oliverw.douglas285]

@@douro20 I believe OptoElectronics had a leadership change, & possibly an owner change several years ago. They haven't had the same focus on things, & variety/diversity of products since then. At their roots, they started as a small operation that sold specialty RF Test Equipment, such as workbench & portable frequency counters, & notch filters. As they grew, they added new equipment such the Scout, as well as other near field test equipment. Accessories like the DC440 were add to their catalog, which allow the decoding of CTCSS, DCS, & DTMF. Later models would offer the ability to decode various trunking data, such LTR. They offer two different interfaces for controlling the Radio Shack PRO-2006 Scanner (Opto 256). In retrospect, OptoElectronics was a much different company, than they are today.

[@raymondmartin6737]

I know some of today's scanners have a feature like this called Close Call, as you referred to. I remember Optoelectronics made scanners. 😊

[@bulldogbrower6732]

In the United States we can legally listen to police and air band frequencies. However most of the police departments have switched to digital P-25. In addition they have encrypted their transmissions to completely obscure all of their calls.

[@jamesslick4790]

In the City of Pittsburgh, PA (And indeed most of Allegheny County...) plain old analog UHF-FM is STILL the main way for Police, Fire and EMS comms. Even a Baofeng UV-5R would do as a (slow!) scanner. The only interesting comms that are digital is City of Pittsburgh SWAT, But ONLY the City! The suburban (County) SWAT comms are still analog UHF-FM.

[@gdj6298]

Just today, reports of the NYPD getting flak because they want to encrypt..

[@volvo09]

​@@jamesslick4790 yeah, I can get my small towns police and fire dispatch / responses to dispatch frequency on my 5R, but no comms between units.

[@jamesslick4790]

NYPD comms are SO disorganized as they are, would anyone KNOW if they encrypted or not? 🤔😝@@gdj6298

[@bobroberts2371]

I had read that a state somewhere is moving to a cell based PTT network for coms. This has the advantage of inter jurisdiction coms however, if the cell network goes down, there would be a problem. I'm betting that these radios have preemption if the cell network becomes over run. I'm wondering of these have a function to transmit direct from radio to radio if everything goes down.

[@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266]

I remember this. Opto brought a lot of stuff. I had a few of there frequency counters and sniffers. They could even tune some scanners like the AOR 8000

[@tinytattoomike7943]

I got hooked on your channel watching pirate radio stations which led to ham radio and buying a BAOFENG BF-F8HP to mess with

[@volvo09]

That was a good series

[@johnorrells3797]

I did have a counter, I think it was Optotronics that could display near field frequencies so if you were close to a tx you could find frequencies for your scanner. It was ok if only one tx at a time but if under a Comms tower the strongest always won. I found many frequencies this way.

[@petercarter9034]

I would love to see a demo of this piece of kit, you did well finding it suppose it's almost vintage now !

[@phoneticau]

I use a SDR spectrum analyzer to find strong carriers click on its peak normalized to 12.5Khz step enter it into SDR Trunk, can decode clear voice but still decode signaling of talk groups ect

[@MattExzy]

It couldn't be a 90s thing if it wasn't marketed to detect leaky microwaves. I remember as a kid that being a key concern of mothers everywhere.

[@wisteela]

I heard it was in the 80s too.

[@robertmeyer4744]

I haven't seen them in years. nice find. you could replace the internal battery or use a external Lithium battery . today we use the BC 125 scanner or the tiny SA ULTRA . that has a audio out jack and small . 73's

[@stevetelford2821]

I have a Watson WR-5002, sane bit of kit but a different case. Baught it about 3 years ago. If i remember correctly it cost this side of £100. Its quite good, does its job. I have received marine to air, RNLI at about 3 miles with no problems. Its great just to leave in the car glove box. I also have a Black-Box MK2 which is similar but for Air Band AM.

[@RingwayManchester]

Thanks Steve! Now I’m 150 quid lighter!!! 🤪

[@stevetelford2821]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@michaelcharach]

I had one of these in the early 90s. Can’t for the life of me remember where I got it from or why I still don’t have it. I was a young lad about 17 or 18 years old and we got into a bunch of trouble scanning.. going to fires, gun calls, listening to phones. I remember pulling up to a car wreck with this thing and we could hear all the police, the tow truck driver, the firefighters, it was pretty cool.. once everything switched to digital (just a few years later) I got out of the hobby. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

[@jamesmacdonald5556]

A lot of years ago I'm sitting in a parking lot listening to a police scanner. Pretty boring town but you could find out where the parties were from the complaints that officers were asked to investigate. Across the street is the side of a small mall where kids my age are hanging out around a car. A police car pulls up and the officers starts asking questions. It comes back on the radio that the driver's driving license has been revoked. The officer leaves but a few minutes later a police car with no lights on slowly comes down the back side of mall and stops just short of the corner of the building waiting for the guy to drive off so they can cite him. I run across the street and tell them what is going on, "Let me drive the car". You should have seen how surprised the officer was when I rolled down the window.

[@NOWThatsRichy]

I was into scanners in the mid 1990s, (when everything was still analogue & easy to listen to!) I still have my AOR 8000 scanner, but not used it for years. I dont remember this Optoelectronics device, but yes get a battery pack made up, & try it out in the wild, be interesting what it will pick up nowadays!

[@MHLivestreams]

I still have my Tandy 'realistic' hyperscan from 1991

[@Scotscan]

Alinco scanners of the mid 90/00s also sported a fast tune feature. Again, it worked quite well.

[@Daviation1977]

Get it out in the field mate. Happy New Year to you.

[@OfficialUSKRprogram]

today, counter-surveillance has such a strong atmosphere around it, it feels like we're on the edge of the feared cyberpunk dystopia, and honestly I do feel like we are here. Give it 10 years and this video will be erased from the internet.

[@nolangroomsnnelectricllc.2462]

Here in Ohio, the state patrol and the police departments are all on the mark system. Which is a scrambled system, your radio will not be scrambled. Your scanners will not be scrambled, so you cannot hear police communications or state patrol communications

[@jvsyoutube3298]

do the police still use analog radio when communicating in uk?! in sweden that went away to "digital" probably atleast 12-15 years ago...had a police radio in my house when i moved in, it shortly stopped working after that, but was pretty interesting to listen to in the beginning...

[@paulsradiohacks]

I remember these... takes me back, never realised how good they are.

[@BryanTorok]

Back in the late 1970s to 1980s the President (of the USA) was coming to town. I had a friend who found out what hotel he would be staying at and went there when the President was to arrive. He had some sort of pocket scanner in an inside coat pocket set to sweep and record the frequency on which it heard anything. He also had an ear bud to listen. At one point he attracted the attention of the Secret Service who patted him down. They weren't happy about him being able to figure out the frequencies they were using and listen to them, but once they checked him out, they let him stay.

[@RishayanPorMexico]

Today in the US, all it would pick up would be the buzz of the digital transmitters.

[@g1fsh]

I remember these and the ones that came after. They were always out of my budget but i always wanted one.

[@TheSillyshyguy]

I'm so happy not to be living in GB. So many restrictive and asinine laws and rules from everything from Radio to TV and beyond. Defund the BBC! :) Uniden today calls that "Intercept" feature "Close Call"

[@RingwayManchester]

It’s crazy isn’t it!

[@merlinonline67]

You do know that US Police are starting to go over to encrypted radio communications?

[@joeblow5214]

@@merlinonline67 That switchover started decades ago for special frequencies. It's just now starting for general dispatch and car to car talk. Not that it matters considering the advent of call notes in CAD and group chats, open freqs are very dead nowadays.

[@BryanTorok]

Depending on the area of the country and size of the department, most law enforcement comms are either digital, encrypted, or both, BUT not all. A quick Google search showed that New York City is the process of converting from analog to digital. That is expected to take 5 years to complete. Likewise, Chicago is switching. However, there is loads of private companies that still use analog radios including almost all railroads in the USA.

[@straightpipediesel]

US railroads are in the process of switching to NXDN digital.

[@lxtechmangood9503]

Definitely take it out into the outside and see what it can find and then take it out again over the year to events etc and see what it does or doesn't pick up. Could be very interesting and intriguing 🤔

[@TheCleaner6969]

I remember modifying my Radio Shack scanner to pick up 800mhz cellphone convos & 900mhz cordless phones, police calls & so much more.

[@douro20]

Optoelectronics is first, and foremost, a TSCM equipment manufacturer. They still offer a similar, but not nearly as sophisticated, receiver called the R506 which is good up to 8GHz. It does have a non-audio mode, though, which can be configured with a beeping or vibrating alert on the interception of a strong signal.

[@thisandthat871]

Yes mate definitely demo this out jn the field ❤

[@Mike-H_UK]

Lewis, I would be very interested in a field trial.

[@earlyadapter643]

Looks like todays close call, Attenuator or Frequency copy functions could need some speed update to faster re-trigger a scan. However i think the UBC92XLT for example does have some advanced functions to limit the search range.

[@charliemikesierra3472]

Do it!! Bring back the old school and see what you can find!

[@stevehenke678]

Im not 100% sure, dont think my grandma was a criminal. But the old girl used to sit up in bed at night listening to all the local rozzer activity.😂

[@StayMadNobodycares]

a busybody maybe.

[@RollerSkatinActor]

In my County you can no longer hear the police will this radio still capture the police activity. How can I get one in the US?

[@S_Paoli]

back then, they also had a version for analog cell phones(remember those?) It would automatically tune to the nearest analog cell phone signal near the device... it was about half the size of the unit pictured in this video, since it was dedicated to just the cellular band. of course, analog cellular service was turned of many years ago(15 or 20 years?), so the device is no longer usable if someone still has it. :)

[@hatsunemiku838]

I modified an old radio shack scanner to receive those frequencies. I could instantly tell when it was analog cellular because of the high piched ringing was in the background.

[@MichaelCowden]

That's a cool device and idea. Thank you for another interesting video Lewis!

[@British_airways_747]

I don’t even remember what video brought me to this channel but I’ve just ate it all up

[@rupertmiller9690]

Was it the mass introduction of trunked systems that killed these off? Sorry if that's a dumb question. I'm learning...

[@RingwayManchester]

There’s no dumb questions Rupert. There was calls to adapt this for trunked use back in the 1990’s but it never happened. Then trunk tracking scanners came along

[@wisteela]

It would be very interesting seeing what it receives nowadays.

[@minibikemadman]

I just bought a uniden sds200 it's one bad scanner.

[@TV88KEYS]

I bought the R10, the Xplorer, the Scout 40, the frequency counter (can't remember the name), and the OPTO 456 interface for the RS-2006 scanner..The only one I sold was the Xplorer..It worked fine but I needed the money to purchase other stuff..I just ran across the R10 a couple days ago in a storage box...I'm going to have to fire it back up again to see if it still works..I have to replace the Ni-cad with something else.

[@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266]

I had the same setup

[@ABRetroCollections]

As per FCC regulations, any device that is subjected to interference must be able to receive that interference. Guess what, radio signals are forms of interference. You can't ban electronics that are prone to receiving interference. This is why law enforcement agencies now use encryption eg: P25.

[@SergeantExtreme]

Oh please, a grade schooler could break that encryption.

[@SergeantExtreme]

@@research_netcoms197_on_youtube KZbin isn't set up to share information on how to listen in on police frequencies. I suggest you start with the Radio Reference Forums, and continue your journey from there.

[@anthonyfranz8317]

I remember those back in the 90s and thought how cool it would be to have one of those.

[@nikushim6665]

Near impossible to ban scanners, at least in the US. Its a open broadcast so there is no legitimate expectation of privacy. Nowadays most police radio is on encrypted trunk systems.

[@joracer1]

Won't it lock on a becon then annoy you until you turn it off? Even if you skip signal won't it go back around and pick it up again?

[@givman2004]

As a total noob to radio. Is there a modern device like this i can use to listen in to whats going on around me. Not sure what type of things you would pick up thought. Back in my teens i had a radio i could listen to the emergency services on.

[@Ray_Piste]

Is there anything like this available on the market today?

[@anthonygallo3576]

Most lawn enforcement here in the states is going from AM to a scrambled digital signal. Im sure there is a hack out there somewhere

[@the80hdgaming]

Omfg... I wanted one of these sooo bad as a young teen fascinated with anything radio... But it was so expensive... Got bit by the radio bug at the age of 7... I'm now 45 and the infection is only worse... 😂😂😂 73 DE VA3RIW

[@jayrogers8255]

Same! I would see it every month in PopComm!

[@ProtoHadron]

Saying your callsign is such a good way to say that youre a ham without saying youre a ham

[@the80hdgaming]

@@ProtoHadron just a quiet acknowledgment from one hame to another...

[@thes764]

Hack up a battery pack - internal or external - and go hunting already! ;)

[@RingwayManchester]

Will do!

[@tomweickmann6414]

I have a Uniden BC200XLT. Back then for a limited time you could get it modified to pick up all the cell phone frequencies for $20. Notice how the government kowtowed to the privacy of cell phones, thanks to lobbying yet they didn't give a damn about the privacy of cordless phone users, who could be listened to with a simple scanner.😮

[@zarkovukelic9502]

I loved my intercepter .. I can listen to all cell phone calls all cop cars or find bugs it it was a fun toy and I still have one.

[@Inadvisablescience]

Yes, please make a video showing this in operation, please!

[@g4lmn-ron]

Fit that battery and get out there, I want to see it working in the wild please.

[@MotFPS]

P25 encryption changed it all again. Now it's almost impossible to get P25 signals and decrypt them; possible but extremely difficult to do.

[@ST-actual]

I lived somewhere that had a phone number you could call and listen to the local pd radio. No idea how it worked or why, but whoever set it up was a legend and kept us out of multiple jams as young dumb potheads

[@johnleclair663]

oh that device looks cool. Never heard of it. It might be old but now I want one !!! Even with all my Ettus radios, SDR dongles, GNU Radio software, etc. I like it!

[@brutonstreettailor4570]

Dad bought me one of these, he was inspector of establishments for the mod and oversaw GCHQs budget, he bought me loads of kit, i don’t know if he brought it back from his trips away! i guess that was my privileged upbringing.

[@EmeraldHill-vo1cs]

Had a Bearcat in the 80's, a very usefull scanner.

[@TonyLing]

I have an Optotronics frequency counter in what appears to be the same extruded aluminium case. I always enjoy your in depth reviews of equipment which was built when you were no more than a twinkle in your father's trouser pocket. HNY Lewis.

[@RingwayManchester]

Send us a pic on fb Tony!

[@TonyLing]

I'll dig it out@@RingwayManchester

[@KarlWitsman]

Wow! But yes, I am glad that such functions as SignalStalker (and under other names) have grown to subsume some of the functions.

[@joshhardin666]

why would they ban receiver / scanner though? - is it illegal to listen for random signals across the radio spectrum in the UK? - in the US you can listen to any signal you can receive so long as you don't try to decrypt encrypted signals, and listening to emergency services radio is a pretty big pasttime for the american radio hobby.

[@dazzp2]

Great bit of old kit Lewis , I remember these well,,, ps, any chance of a "Roger Modder " update ? I'm hoping with this crazy Retevis/Quansheng chaos he's either well fell off the wagon and in the Trainspotting room again , that chaos with the Boafeng , the Tower in Blackpool , I can imagine that was a Little Blip compared to any Quansheng Addiction , the variants of mods , he's like Totally very strong I'd say if he's stayed loyal with Boafeng , pass my best on 😂 73s Lewis

[@PenryMMJ]

Looks a bit like something Del Boy would be selling out of a suitcase down the market, but quite a clever piece of kit for it's day. Appearances are deceptive. It would be interesting to see what it can pick up nowadays. Please make a battery pack, I know it's going to be quite a bit of work, but I'm sure you want to know what it will receive. We all want to know.

[@daninraleigh]

I just want to know where to get one!

[@Handle3714]

Wish they would hurry up and make a digital one with decoder

[@Matt_The_Hugenot]

In the pre digital era one of these was a great countersurveillance tool,

[@devnuls]

Can an SDR be programmed to emulate the same function?

[@hooks4638]

It may be obsolete now but, it's still cool to me. 😎

[@volvo09]

I used to have an old crystal scanner that my grandfather gave me as a kid. I knew it was outdated but I got the frequency crystals from the electronics store and was disappointed to learn my local police used newer transmission so the signals were garbled 😢 I was able to receive something (maybe fire) but not the police.

[@redsable6119]

Used to listen to the police radio 30 years ago but all the big police forces here in Canada use encrypted radios now...

[@ryank5tar]

use that to monitor the fuzz whilst dropping Meshtastic repeaters in the tube.

[@davidkennerly]

The fact that Brits are unable to listen to any frequencies they want is still disturbing to me. The First Amendment is a wonderful thing.

[@teddermachineworks]

DEMO.....DEMO....DEMO!!!

[@charleshunziker7416]

Around 20 years ago I had a frequency counter and noticed an unmarked vehicle on my street, it was transmitting on 166.825, which means it was the feds

[@charleshunziker7416]

Never found out who it was

[@mpol701]

Presume your usa, in uk don't recall anyone special on 166.825

[@Francois_Dupont]

i had a similar thing like this in the 1990's, but it never worked. bought it for 20$ or so at a garage sale.

[@raulmartinez-cc2xh]

What is the price of the interceptor-R10

[@Milcom34]

Thanks RM. Very interesting Video and Device****

[@phoneticau]

Fast scan time only need a carrier of 1-3 seconds duration to lock on

[@nigozeroichi2501]

do it, do it, DO IT! 😊 I would've loved to have one back then, I still have my old Bearcat 200 I'm thinking of getting new cells for the battery just for Ss&Gs even though there's not much to listen to anymore

[@tyreburster]

Fascinating. I never knew these existed.

[@garycoxall4809]

Great video as always would be good to see it out and about

[@jamiemoo2000]

The days of monitoring the UK EMS are well and truly over with now, since the UK Tetra Airwave Service, with its highly secure TEA2 encryption algorithm and all the authentication protocols in place on the Police Tetra TMO Network. The encryption key mechanisms of action are very complex. SCKs, GCKs, DCKs which are all layers of the security mechanisms within TEA2 Tetra system.

[@RingwayManchester]

Correct

[@mpol701]

We still have fire brigade 457 fire ground

[@mpol701]

And police and pcso on shop and pub watch schemes, even had them using shopwatch doing a drugs surveillance, crazy

[@jamiemoo2000]

@@mpol701 yep some Shopwatch schemes still use Analogue Radio Systems and unencrypted DMR that can obviously be monitored. Police have dedicated Shopwatch Talk groups patched thru to Shopwatch Radio.

[@jamiemoo2000]

@@mpol701 LFRS are digital now in my area with the 457MHz fireground PRRs.

[@Brandon-dg8zn]

Not good for listening to most police frequencies here in the U.S. because they're encrypted. No way around it unless you have an actual police transmitter with the encode/decode codes programmed in.

[@daren_waters]

Would love to see this in action..yes please!

[@markpunt9638]

Wow - to be able to turn up at the scene and hear all the various emergency traffic would’ve been amazing.As it was, want to add to have a range of scanners hidden in the car due to a variety of frequencies and just hope they were the ones that were going to be used🙄

[@gary7vn]

It's a scam.

[@raulmartinez-cc2xh]

How can I buy it?

[@RE-ec7iz]

RINGWAY, I was wondering if you knew how apps like "scanner radio" or "police scanner - live radio" that are in the app stores work? I use both of them and they have pretty much every local police, sheriff, fire department, EMS, and airport radio for my town and most surroundings... I'm guessing most of them are not using open analog radio so I didn't know if anyone knew how the apps have all of the radio traffic feeds. This is in the states, I haven't looked if they have feeds for UK or European.... keep up the good work!! love the channel!

[@boostismagic]

The feeds you are listening to are uploaded by "Premium" members in your area who possess digital-capable equipment, with which they stream the content to a server, which makes the transmissions available to you. If they turn off their gear, the feed dies. You will notice if you listen long enuff that the feeds go down sometimes.