Police Scanner Question List?

Police Scanner Question List?
1. do i need a 700mhz police scanner are there people on this frequency

2.How Far Does Scanner Reception Really Go

3.Whats The Best Antenna For A BNC Connector

4.What is The Best Handheld Scanner That Is Easy To Use

5. How Can You Get Rid Of Scrathces On A Police Scanner

Best answer:

1) Depends on your area. In the future 700MHz expansion will be needed.

2) Depends on your antennas, height of antennas, cables, systems being monitored.

A handheld trying using the stock antenna trying to monitor a UHF simplex channel 2-3 miles depending on the radios on the the other users are using.

Same radio connected to an antenna, 100ft up, on low loss cable 5-10+ miles.

Range is depending on what your setup is. Stock rubber antenna inside or outside antenna on good cable, or outside antenna on lossy cable.

3) This depends on the frequency. Antennas are tuned, some are multi band, but most are single frequency. If your area is predominately 800Mhz a good 800mhz from Antennex be a good choice. If your area is a mix of VHF and UHF then a decent amateur dual band 2m/70cm antenna will be a good choice. We can only help if you tell us what band you want to monitor the most. An 800Mhz will be pretty useless for a 33MHz fire department, and vice versa.

4) Depends on the area. Do need trunking? Do you need digital?
For digital areas: GRE PSR500 or PSR 600 for non digital areas

For non trunking areas just about all the portables are equal.

5) Can’t help.

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