So I've been toying with the idea of buying a trunking scanner. I live in Tulsa Metro. There is a web page I googled up where a person can listen for free. Granted, I can't throw my computer in my car and drive around town hooked to the internet, but aside from mobility, what am I getting for my money if I throw down on a scanner radio? Is the reception, tracking, etc. going to be as good or better than what I'm getting on the web?
Also, Radio Shack has the PRO-97 on sale for $150 thru JUN17. Is it cheap because it doesn't work so well here or because it's going to have a short shelf-life given (1) conversion to digital and (2) rebanding of cell freq's between 800-900mhz. Or is it a really sweet deal that I'm just too pessimistic to recognize? How does it rate against the Pro-2055?
I'm sort of thinking that spending extra money (more than 2x the cost of non-digital) to get a digital scanner is very much throwing money down a hole if digital = encrypted. Sort of like owning a Betamax: best techology, but nothing to watch.
Freebie link is below FWIW. Only works in IE. Can't make it work with Firefox.
http://krmg.com/features/tpdfdpscanner02.html