New Scanner...

[Joseph11]

I am thinking about buying a new scanner. I live in Beachwood and would like to scan The Ocean County Trunked System, Dover TWP. P.D. (APCO-25 Digital), EMS/Fire Dispatch, State Police (Troop C), and some other surrounding cities. What would be the cheapest scanner that I can buy to do those things?

 

[elias1988]

Well for a digital scanner its not that cheap, its $500 plus tax so it would come out to $529.99 for one for both Radioshack and Uniden scanners, heres the newest digital scanner from Radioshack it does digital and trunking:

http://www.radioshack.com/product.a...me=CTLG_008_009_010_003&product_id=20-496 if you're not interested in that...rl]http://uniden.com/product.cfm?product=BCT8 [/url]

 

[DJ88]

Don't waste your money on a digital scanner to hear Dover Twp. PD. Most of their transmissions are encrypted and no scanner can receive encryption. I removed their PD frequencies from my digital scanner altogether. It became very annoying, especially when the dispatrcher transmitted in analog and the unit was answering encrypted. I figure if anything big happens there, I have fire and EMS, which are analog. Point Pleasant Beach and Lakewood are also digital. Pt. Beach rarely encrypts and Lakewood does once in a while, so if you want to monitor those two also, go ahead and get one, but for Dover Twp., you're wasting your money.

For the county trunked system, you can get yourself a nice trunk tracking scanner at way less than half the price of a digital unit. And, the county trunked system is a real flame thrower. You will be able to hear everything loud and clear no matter where you are located in Ocean County.

 

[Joseph11]

Don't waste your money on a digital scanner to hear Dover Twp. PD. Most of their transmissions are encrypted and no scanner can receive encryption. I removed their PD frequencies from my digital scanner altogether. It became very annoying, especially when the dispatrcher transmitted in analog and the unit was answering encrypted. I figure if anything big happens there, I have fire and EMS, which are analog. Point Pleasant Beach and Lakewood are also digital. Pt. Beach rarely encrypts and Lakewood does once in a while, so if you want to monitor those two also, go ahead and get one, but for Dover Twp., you're wasting your money.

For the county trunked system, you can get yourself a nice trunk tracking scanner at way less than half the price of a digital unit. And, the county trunked system is a real flame thrower. You will be able to hear everything loud and clear no matter where you are located in Ocean County.

OK, I found a 100 channel scanner on eBay that I'm watching, it's not a trunking scanner, but I'm listening to the Ocean County Trunked System on a scanner from 1985 right now.

 

[DJ88]

The only problem with that is, yes you can monitor the trunked system in conventional mode, but you're stuck hearing all of the agancies, including Raod Department, Buildings & Grounds, and the ever so annoying SCAT buses. Wiith a trunk tracker, you can just program the talk groups for the agancies you want to listen to, ie: police, sheriffs. prosecutors. fire departments, etc. and that's all you will hear. It's up to you as to what you want to do, but I would strongly recommend a scanner that does trunking. It makes the listening experience much more enjoyable.

 

[elias1988]

OK, I found a 100 channel scanner on eBay that I'm watching, it's not a trunking scanner, but I'm listening to the Ocean County Trunked System on a scanner from 1985 right now.

If you want to listen to State Police i would try to get a digital/trunking scanner because they are switching over to a digital system soon actully Troop B is already on it, rest of the Troops will go on it sometime this year.

 

[Joseph11]

I would like to get a trunking scanner, but I can only spend upto $50-60 and the cheapest one I've seen was $130, the RadioShack PRO-95.

 

[elias1988]

I would like to get a trunking scanner, but I can only spend upto $50-60 and the cheapest one I've seen was $130, the RadioShack PRO-95.

Ok.