How can my friend use a Mobile Trunking Scanner to avoid a speeding ticket while trav

[Sinister]

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[k9jdk]

I noticed one of the stops on the trip is Sedona, AZ. Was there about a month ago. My advice - forget about scanning there and simply take in all that Mother Nature has to offer, which is simply stunning.

You might also consider taking a trip a bit south of Sedona to take in Montezuma's Castle and Well.

Now back to scanning.

 

[NWtoSFO]

Last weekend I listened to a few CHP units up Hwy 50. I was in a turnout on a county road about a quarter mile away with a view of the freeway. One unit was calling out for the other two. I was listening to the proper frequencies and tried to listen for any usable information. Some of what I heard;

"Black Corvette, no 1 lane. Seventy Five."

"Red Beemer, coming up on you, number 2 lane. Female. Seventy Two. Cell phone."

"Harley. Number 1 lane. It's the second bike passing you now. Right there! Seventy Eight."

Listened for 30 minutes and NEVER heard a location, even when calling in a plate and final stop.

Matthew

 

[steveh552]

As it has been said, the dispatchers pretty much know where their officers are assigned and they are very familiar with the landmarks and mile post.

For example where I live, if a trooper calls in he has a stop at the 126, well, the only 126 mile post in the county is on Interstate 70 in Licking County. If he calls in east bound at the 16, well the only east bound 16 mile post is St. Rt. 16 in Licking county.

I have heard them call it in this way many times when I had a digital scanner and because I know the area, knew what they were talking about, someone traveling through would be clueless.

 

[barkerdrmmr182]

Many people think that will work, but simply it will not. The only way it would ever work is if you knew what road you were on and what was around you (or up ahead or behind) and the officers said over the radio thier exact location. Unfortunatly they do not give thier exact locations unless the have someone pulled over and/or on scene of whatever call they have. Other than that there is no way to use a scanner to detour from getting a speeding ticket. The best thing to do is like many people have said...simply dont break the law.

 

[wlmr]

As has been pointed out above, the officers and dispatchers already know which road which officer is assigned to so they rarely communicate anything other than milepost locations. - They only state their location if the dispatcher asks or when they are actively doing something other than looking and waiting for the next speeder

(Hope your friend is lucky if he wants to speed!).

I thing this topic should qualify for sticky category, I expect we'll hear this question again!

 

[kayi4cle]

Having a scanner in my vehicle has kept me from having accidents at least twice on trips by alerting me to activity going on and causing me to slow down, even though I wasn’t speeding. Once when monitoring CB channel 19 while driving in mountainous terrain during a rainstorm I heard about an accident up ahead just in time to keep from plowing into it. Another time I was monitoring state enforcement channels and heard activity. I slowed down just in time to avoid hitting a trooper’s car just around a curve which was parked partly onto the highway.

So, I’m all for having a scanner in a vehicle if you allow plenty of time to learn how to use it before your trip, and consider getting a ham license before taking your radio into Florida. Do those things and you’ll be ready to have a wonderful time monitoring police, fire, CB, FRS/GMRS, fast food, weather reports, air, railroad, and anything else that may be of interest along the way.

Most of all, use your radio to help keep you safe in your travels.

 

[robertw]

It's obvious that you can't use the scanner to avoid tickets. So the question should be how to use Location-Based Scanning? I don't understand this, what I think I understand is with scanner hooked up to a GPS antenna. You can program the scanner to change to the frequencies for each area as you approach each area; by defining Latitude, Longitude and radius. Is this right and If so how do you find the information you need?

 

[rvictor]

It's obvious that you can't use the scanner to avoid tickets. So the question should be how to use Location-Based Scanning? I don't understand this, what I think I understand is with scanner hooked up to a GPS antenna. You can program the scanner to change to the frequencies for each area as you approach each area; by defining Latitude, Longitude and radius. Is this right and If so how do you find the information you need?

First, of course, you need a scanner that supports this function. Then you get as much of the data as you can from the database here at RR. If the latitude and longitude information isn't available here, you'll have to go to other sources such as maps, etc. to find that data.

Dick