Best hand-held for photojournalists

[photopro]

I need a very good handheld scanner to follow the local police & fire transmissions so that I can photograph car accidents and fires for the local newspaper. Which models would be best for this application?

 

[N2PYS]

AS long as you want to just listen to Wadsworth and Medina County and Portable scanner will do, but if you intend on listening to OHIO MARCS then you will require a trunking digital scanner such as the GRE 610 OR 800 I Believe are the correct models oor the Uniden BCD396XT these units come with a price tag of between 450-and 500 $ so the MARCS is a decision you have to make with your wallet as well as your brain,If you are a "stringer" making 60$ bucks a picture and its your side job you will probably want MARCS because that will open up MULTI AGENCY COMMS therefor more big calls more to shoot at if this is your hobby and do it for fun and a little profit well 450$ is a lot of money,also to be considered is its getting rough out there wing nuts are shooting Fireman as well as Police so scenes are going to get tighter controlled if the paper you are shooting for has not and will not issue you a PRESS PASS do not invest a lot of money into a scanner unless you really love scanning also I still carry my PRESS PASS, and another piece of advice you may laugh at but as i say there are wing nuts out there along with a scanner no photo jock should ever be without soft body armor whether you wear it under your Shirt over your shirt or get it in a winter vest or in a Photojournalist vest it is worth the investment,it protects against bullets knives and upper body trauma in car accidents things falling on you protects you from TASERS I have been in the industry for 23 years its the voice of experience telling you this my friend,any questions feel free to message me .
Peace

 

[Paulsan]

AS long as you want to just listen to Wadsworth and Medina County and Portable scanner will do, but if you intend on listening to OHIO MARCS then you will require a trunking digital scanner such as the GRE 610 OR 800 I Believe are the correct models oor the Uniden BCD396XT these units come with a price tag of between 450-and 500 $ so the MARCS is a decision you have to make with your wallet as well as your brain,If you are a "stringer" making 60$ bucks a picture and its your side job you will probably want MARCS because that will open up MULTI AGENCY COMMS therefor more big calls more to shoot at if this is your hobby and do it for fun and a little profit well 450$ is a lot of money,also to be considered is its getting rough out there wing nuts are shooting Fireman as well as Police so scenes are going to get tighter controlled if the paper you are shooting for has not and will not issue you a PRESS PASS do not invest a lot of money into a scanner unless you really love scanning also I still carry my PRESS PASS, and another piece of advice you may laugh at but as i say there are wing nuts out there along with a scanner no photo jock should ever be without soft body armor whether you wear it under your Shirt over your shirt or get it in a winter vest or in a Photojournalist vest it is worth the investment,it protects against bullets knives and upper body trauma in car accidents things falling on you protects you from TASERS I have been in the industry for 23 years its the voice of experience telling you this my friend,any questions feel free to message me .
Peace

All that with one period.

 

[SCPD]

Very Good Handheld Scanner For A Journalist

Hi--That last response was a "little off the wall" but my question to you is this? Is the part of Ohio digital or analog that you need to listen to? If analog..does your area do conventional or trunking? If digital meaning P-25, then you need to spend upwards of $400.00 or more. You can look at Uniden Bearcat AT-125, Uniden BC-346XT in analong, in digital you have the BCD-396XT, in Radio Shack a PRO-164 if still available or a used PRO-97 for much less money in analog. Also Radio Shack handles GRE America/Radio Shack and they have nice stuff too and are running a great scanner sale when I last looked yesterday. You can also pm me and I can help you by narrowing down the choices for your area. The higher end units have the new 700mhz band and signal strenght meter, ctcss/dcs(private line),alpha tagging also a nice feature is SAME-Specific Area Message Encoding in which you simply look on NOAA's site and enter your counties code for severe weather alerts. GRE/Radio Shack has this too in their higher end handheld scanners. So in short, please private message me with the city/town you live in or go onto our data base, simply click on that and you will see the entire USA, then click on Ohio and then find your county, click on that and then advise me or anyone else on here as to what your town or city is. That is your first most important step that radioreference is great for.
Hope this information helps you and many other new scanner hobbyists out there.

Bob(Yonkers,NY)Westchester County

 

[SCPD]

I need a very good handheld scanner to follow the local police & fire transmissions so that I can photograph car accidents and fires for the local newspaper. Which models would be best for this application?

Uniden Bearcat BC346XT TrunkTracker Scanner, BC-346XT