I actually work for the company that programms and services radio systems for 8 counties in northwest ohio. They all know me pretty well. And never typically bother me. I always get waves from everyone. I myself am an amature radio operator and assist in ARES as well as Hears (hancock emergency amature radio service) And run on skywarn. Most of the LEO's know me from working scenes. But yeah I have about 6 antennas on my truck and since I program the radios they all hear my voice. Now I can just key up on a mutual aid channel and be an extra set of eyes if need be. But yes, Ironically the dispatcher had no clue that you could listen to cordless phones with a scanner, apparently nether did the pd unit who had the scanner. I told him after seeing him at a later time that baby monitors use the same freq's as cordless phones. Another interesting tip is that most... And I stress the word MOST of the 2.4ghz and higher phones still tx a birdie freq in the 900mhz range. So it don't matter how high the GHZ on the phones are, they are still using 900mhz freq's. So I am sure that all the detetives around are using scanners to do steakouts for drug raids... you would be surprised in the volume of people who are completely oblivious to the fact that their convorsations can be tracked with no modifications needed to the scanners. Most drug dealers have kids, and have baby monitors and have no clue they are essentially bugging their own houses.... Gotta love technology!!
