realistic pro-2004

I have been listening to radio for decades and came across this very odd transmission one night which I could not make sense of. It happened as follows: It's not Halloween yet but I was scanning through military ATC channels in the south of Britain one night at approx. 8.30 pm local time this...

Hello, I've read the manual a few times over for this 300 channel Realistic pro-2004. I was interested in scanning and hearing transmissions from police, fire, aviation, metro and txdot through houston. My neighbor gifted me this old scanner and included the manual , but i cant seem to figure...