[Freedom2specul8]

Scanners are an excellent way of knowing what's going on in your neighborhood. Before we left a large city, we voted for a NEW COMMUNICATION SYSTEM for our 911 emergency services. It was so updated, that we could no longer listen to the scanner. When the citizens complained about it, the cops said that citizens don't need scanners, and that it can put the cops in harms way....because the bad guys listen too.

[oceanperch]

Another poster said they upadated their community as well the problem was the older volenteers could no longer hear for calls over the scanner.

Sure came in handy for the guy that hauls water for us this morning to hear road conditions via the county road workers and one main road was cloased due to a live wire on the round also bar reports since we live on the bay/ocean. My sons best bud fishes/crabs and he listens for his boat.