Thread: The need for a mobile police scanner.
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Old 01-10-2020, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Diseasel300 View Post
Good luck with the police scanner. More and more police departments and state agencies are moving to encrypted digital radio systems. Your police scanner will not work if your LEO agency uses such systems.
The only system I'm aware of that you can't pickup would be OpenSky and no one made scanners for that type. Pennsylvania State Police bought into the system quite a while ago and have had all kinds of problems since then. In 2017 they decided to scrap it and go with Project 25 Phase II which one can monitor with a scanner set up for that mode.

Most locals here in Pittsburgh are on VHF Hi. The 800mHz doesn't get it in hilly areas. My scanners aren't 25 phase ll capable, so if I want to monitor PSP again, I'll have to upgrade. I take a portable on trips but most places now are on 25 phase ll or Motorola x2.

GRE and Whistler are supposed to be good choices but come in around $800.

https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/APCO_Project_25#Scanner_Support_for_TDMA
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