Can a scanner alert to a police radio?

[sx4dude2013]

So we have radar detectors that detect when a radar signal is within range and the correct frequency. Is there a "scanner detector"? A scanner that will beep/alert when a police frequencey/channel is near (a mile away) or something? I think it would help with I/O and stuff. Like if ur cruzing and u get an alert that a officer has a radio unit in their car, you could slow down to verify if there is a threat? I saw someone do it with GSP?
And what percent of county/city/state agencys are incripted????

[Solidjake]

Rocky has his scanner set to receive any signals from a "mobil extender" which highway patrol tends to use.


I would just get a scanner and program the right frequencies so you can hear where they are reporting from.

[v1user]

Rocky does it with GSP. I do it to for my staties too. It depends on their system of course. The scanner should never be your first line of defense, however, it is just another layer of defense and as you and I know, you can never have enough layers of defense. I pick up the mobile extenders, air to ground ops, overpass ops.. I have some recorded if you want to hear it.
Overall, the scanner is pretty effective for me but I don't drive your "average" environment.

radioreference.com

[sx4dude2013]

Rocky has his scanner set to receive any signals from a "mobil extender" which highway patrol tends to use.


I would just get a scanner and program the right frequencies so you can hear where they are reporting from.

is the frequency list avaiable through each state...I can set it to continously scan ALL the frequency's in which i drive through?
Would I get a lot of falses from a "mobile extender configuration"? And can most scannners do this?

[sx4dude2013]

Rocky does it with GSP. I do it to for my staties too. It depends on their system of course. The scanner should never be your first line of defense, however, it is just another layer of defense and as you and I know, you can never have enough layers of defense. I pick up the mobile extenders, air to ground ops, overpass ops.. I have some recorded if you want to hear it.
Overall, the scanner is pretty effective for me but I don't drive your "average" environment.

radioreference.com

what type of area so u drive? And is it something that could be used with muliple states?

[Weeth]

I use a radio shack pro-107. It's very easy to use because you have playlists with the municipalities organized on an sd card. It took me 20 min to learn how to use and program and it's been great. It's good entertainment as well.

[sx4dude2013]

I use a radio shack pro-107. It's very easy to use because you have playlists with the municipalities organized on an sd card. It took me 20 min to learn how to use and program and it's been great. It's good entertainment as well.

the pro-106 is $400?!?! but on sale currently for $300. How much was the 107?

ALSO - whats the diffence between 200 channel, 1000 channel, and then 39,000 channel scanners? The more the better???

[v1user]

Rocky does it with GSP. I do it to for my staties too. It depends on their system of course. The scanner should never be your first line of defense, however, it is just another layer of defense and as you and I know, you can never have enough layers of defense. I pick up the mobile extenders, air to ground ops, overpass ops.. I have some recorded if you want to hear it.
Overall, the scanner is pretty effective for me but I don't drive your "average" environment.

radioreference.com

what type of area so u drive? And is it something that could be used with muliple states?

Mostly smaller cities with cities only running east and west. This makes it easy for me to pay attention to every frequency. There is nothing to the north or south. I don't really understand your second question. If you're in TX near the border of OK, sure you can program some OK frequencies and hear them but if you're in Brownsville you're not not going to hear anything outside of that area.


You'll probably never need 39,000 channels lol. I have two scanners that hold 25K+ channels and one that holds 200. It really depends on how deep do you want to get into this. Go deep? Go for the digital trunking with 39K. Not very deep? The 200 channel radio should do for most areas. Sometimes I'm in a large city that uses digital trunking to I had to have digital decoding radios. It's more of an entertainment device than a countermeasure, but it does get you in the "mood." There's nothing like hearing your description following a report of a vehicle traveling with excessive speed. *yikes*

[sx4dude2013]

Rocky does it with GSP. I do it to for my staties too. It depends on their system of course. The scanner should never be your first line of defense, however, it is just another layer of defense and as you and I know, you can never have enough layers of defense. I pick up the mobile extenders, air to ground ops, overpass ops.. I have some recorded if you want to hear it.
Overall, the scanner is pretty effective for me but I don't drive your "average" environment.

radioreference.com

what type of area so u drive? And is it something that could be used with muliple states?

Mostly smaller cities with cities only running east and west. This makes it easy for me to pay attention to every frequency. There is nothing to the north or south. I don't really understand your second question. If you're in TX near the border of OK, sure you can program some OK frequencies and hear them but if you're in Brownsville you're not not going to hear anything outside of that area.


You'll probably never need 39,000 channels lol. I have two scanners that hold 25K+ channels and one that holds 200. It really depends on how deep do you want to get into this. Go deep? Go for the digital trunking with 39K. Not very deep? The 200 channel radio should do for most areas. Sometimes I'm in a large city that uses digital trunking to I had to have digital decoding radios. It's more of an entertainment device than a countermeasure, but it does get you in the "mood." There's nothing like hearing your description following a report of a vehicle traveling with excessive speed. *yikes*

my second question was..."could i get a list of all the frequencys I drive in and program them in". So when I enter SC, the scanner will scan for the signal of the county im in....like a cell phone. If its has no signal.....no matter where I go, its gonna try to find one. Will a scanner do the same?

[rocky2]

I use it in GA all the time any analog scanner will work. You just go to radioreference.com and find the mobile extender frequencies for the state police. I am just lucky that GA still uses them, a lot of states do not use them anymore. I have a Pro-106 and Pro-107 either one works with picking up the mobile extenders. The Pro-106 you can program to chirp and flash when it detects the GSP which is pretty cool. If you really like listening to the police I would get the Pro-106 since a lot of agencies have moved to digital or have plans to do so in the future (especially in big metro areas).

And for your second question, you can go to radioreference and program in the state, local, county police frequencies for the areas you are traveling through and sort them however you like.