To all the Officers Out There.

The_Beast_ · 08-07-2008, 05:03 AM

Just wondering if you guys know where I can get a police scanner? Two of my cousins work for the sherrifs office but they have'nt got back to me yet. ANy help would be appreciated.

*Mindz* · 08-07-2008, 05:13 AM

black market? I believe those are illegal in CA though.

Sterling · 08-07-2008, 06:11 AM

Can't you still get them at Radio Shack?

Angrybird 12 · 08-07-2008, 06:22 AM

I hav3 an old one, but now they use digital encription and I cannot pick anything good up :( all I hear is garbled

*Mindz* · 08-07-2008, 06:24 AM

http://www.shopping.com/xPP-radio_sc...police_scanner

MLL67RSSS · 08-07-2008, 07:32 AM

Well I had looked up the frequencies on the net and just plugged them into my race scanner I take to races. However they went digital here not to long ago so can't get anything now.

Laws very state to state. In Indiana they are legal for home, but you must have a HAM radio operators license to legally carry it in your vehicle.

Captain Awesome · 08-07-2008, 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sterlingnotes

Can't you still get them at Radio Shack?

I doubt it.... you can't even buy a resistor at Radio Shack anymore.

Eisenhower · 08-07-2008, 08:42 AM

My wife was just at RS at the mall to get one of those blueberries or blackberries or raisins or whatever... and I went over to play around with the scanners. I think the hand held one I was looking at cost about $249.

@ Captain Awesome, you can still buy resistors, capacitors, dc motors and all that at RS. They're just not sprolled out all over the wall as they once were. They shoved them all inside of a large "tool cabinet like" display, but they are still available there.

CUPRA · 08-07-2008, 08:55 AM

You should check out Allied Electronics for resistors and capacitors and the like... they have great service too... unlike Radio Shack... however they don't have scanners tho...

Captain Awesome · 08-07-2008, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eisenhower

My wife was just at RS at the mall to get one of those blueberries or blackberries or raisins or whatever... and I went over to play around with the scanners. I think the hand held one I was looking at cost about $249.

@ Captain Awesome, you can still buy resistors, capacitors, dc motors and all that at RS. They're just not sprolled out all over the wall as they once were. They shoved them all inside of a large "tool cabinet like" display, but they are still available there.

They took the parts cabinet out of all my local stores. :(

scotchsride09 · 08-07-2008, 11:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain Awesome

They took the parts cabinet out of all my local stores. :(

Haha; what's even the point then? What do they sell instead? Those mini RC cars?

That's just strange... a store called radio shack, but you can't buy any electronics parts there...

boxmonkeyracing · 08-07-2008, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scotchsride09

Haha; what's even the point then? What do they sell instead? Those mini RC cars?

That's just strange... a store called radio shack, but you can't buy any electronics parts there...

you can by ipods, small selection of computer parts, phones, ummmm random stereo stuff. but very small radio (CB, base stations) section there. . .I went in there looking for an antenna for a CB and could only find the magnetic ones. . .what a rip. they don't seem to have much of anything like they use to.

where am I to go to get capacitors, resistors, splices, fuses, pcb boards, wire, and such?

*TAG UR IT* · 08-07-2008, 01:22 PM

I have no idea where you'd get one. I don't even know if it'd work w/ the new digital tech that everyone is going (or has gone) to.

Better questions....why? Why do you want one??

playhard67 · 08-07-2008, 01:23 PM

RS is good for "universal" cell phone chargers. that's about it.

08-07-2008, 05:13 AM	#2
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Eisenhower I drank what? Drives: DANGEROUSLY Join Date: May 2007 Location: check your back seat... Posts: 416	My wife was just at RS at the mall to get one of those blueberries or blackberries or raisins or whatever... and I went over to play around with the scanners. I think the hand held one I was looking at cost about $249. @ Captain Awesome, you can still buy resistors, capacitors, dc motors and all that at RS. They're just not sprolled out all over the wall as they once were. They shoved them all inside of a large "tool cabinet like" display, but they are still available there.

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