[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 ...

Many of us were priced out of the police scanner hobby. Besides law enforcement, police scanners are mostly used by reporters who cover emergencies and hobbyists who want to know what’s ...

Encrypting makes the radio traffic understandable only by specially equipped police radios. For everyone else, the police frequencies are now silent. Other police departments in the area are now ...

The Atherton police have just one radio communication channel and can’t switch to other frequencies to encrypt specific information, he said. “It’s an unfunded mandate (and is) quite a ...

Calgary has been the only major Canadian city where police allowed news outlets to keep an ear on officer activity on the ...