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Madison County 911 Radio Towers set for $2.5 million improvement

Not much is posted in this forum. So I will post something that just happened today. HAZMAT Situation At A Rockford School Earlier today around 1 PM, the Rockford FD responded to a HAZMAT situation It happened at 2525 Ohio Parkway Flinn Middle School Initial reports said that a hose came...

Hi all, As someone who enjoys stringing in their free time, I recently started to become rather serious about this and I was wondering if this is truly something I could pursue professionally in my area? I am a resident of Lee County (Fort Myers). CCPD, FMPD, and LCSO are all full DE and only...

Hi there, apart of my attempt to gather evidence to show the benefits of open scanner traffic(dispatch only, obviously), I am looking for news articles or PD/FD Facebook/Twitter post that mention a situation where someone listening to their radio traffic ended up helping them. Such as hearing a...

Dear Forum, My family owns a media company that focuses on things in the Niagara Region. We currently just got through moving the business from Fort Erie to Welland and we are also planning on opening other locations very soon in different cities. With all of that being said, we work very...

Went to a JECC policy board meeting yesterday after hearing from local chiefs set on encrypting all law enforcement talkgroups including dispatch and possibly all event channels. The chiefs are blaming radio reference live feed even though their is a delay they also are blaming a am radio...

Hey guys, if you live in Palm Beach County then come join my Facebook and Twitter pages! I post breaking incident news and alerts for just Palm Beach County only. The Facebook address is: http://www.facebook.com/groups/PalmBeachCountyAlerts And the Twitter profile to go follow is: @PBC_Alerts...

I live in Charlotte County, FL and have a police and fire scanner. I don't understand why when I hear of a breaking news incident it's not reported in the news either by newspaper or TV.

This might be a "duh" question, but can you look on FlightAware or another similar site and see when a Police helicopter/aircraft is in the air much like how you can look up a commercial flight and track it? Another question along the same lines, can you do this with TV news...

From SacSheriff.com On Saturday, September 1, 2012, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department will begin providing contractual law enforcement services to the City of Isleton. The scope of the law enforcement services shall be provided at a level commensurate with those services being...

I live in Florida and have had a request to program a scanner (Pro-97) for someone in Yuma. While I could do it, I believe that someone local could do better job! Please PM me if you are interested and I will forward your info to the guy who needs help. He works for one of the local TV...

Here is a link to an unfolding tragedy where the media admits they got some of the main information from a scanner. Maybe it is not a big deal, but in light of recent discussions I thought it was interesting. I am not surprised the use the scanner. I am surprised that they admitted, in the...

Are the News Media freq used in Hillsborough County? If so what do they use them for? News Media Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Hey folks.. If anyone would like to copy my Feeds Page style code and widgets tweak it and Make there own Please do. Do whatever.. I added Live traffic cams , Chatbox, Statcounter, News feed widgets, Facebook share, Feed stats, etc.... I mean the possibilities are endless.. Connecticut...

An article in the fox news website revealed that Port authority police share there radios with other agencies. Is this true? I don't scan port authority much so I really don't know how they operate. "The union representing Port Authority police officers claims its officers are at risk...

Is it possible with the API to remotely update the News and Feed Alerts? I listen a lot on my Blackberry, and it would be nice to be able to submit the News/Alert information via SMS, email, web app, etc. Anyone doing this? Is it possible? kd8jhc

Hi I thought I would make a twitter so that we could all tweet about breaking incidents. If you want to contribute just send the info to http://twitter.com/NEO_NEWS_TWEETS and i can retweet it to everyone who follows So far this is just for Northeast Ohio but we can expand later or you can...

Hey everyone. I'm cBas, and I've been quietly lurking here since I bought my BCD 396T in 07. I'm also a news reporter for 2 radio stations in the Bay Area, and I'm working on a news series called The Other Digital Transitions. I've covered digital radio (the commercial aspect), analog CABLE...

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