If its not a trunking scanner at least. You will have wasted your money. No one uses the old systems anymore.
read up on trunked systems and digital systems now coming up. For anything that works now days your looking at spending at least $250-300

Otherwise you are not going to get much.

 

there are still a few agencies in the bay area not trunked.

granted, they are in the alameda county. and the county just started on a major upgrade due to the 800 mhz shuffling of all emergency departments anytime soon...

even my uniden BC-250 which is trunked and digital will not be able to pick up the new frequency assignments IF and when everyone starts on it...

minimum right now i would recommend to people is the GRE scanners:
http://www.greamerica.com/PSR-500.html

some of the newer uniden ones claim to be flashable so it can work, but those GRE scanners are just so cool...

 

My uniden is flashable. I just upgraded it a bit ago.

Alameda uses a hex system. The SO office controls 90% of all radio traffic. Then leases the Hex's back to the citys. So there is allot more going on then a standard scanner will pick up.

I have two built into my car, Trunked / digital. And an older analog as a back up. As the older system doesnt get much anymore.

 

Maybe we'll hear eric (flatline) on there...

 

or me

whenever I drive our SAR vehicles, we have to radio in to the ALCO SO dispatch office to let them know which vehicle # is in service and where we are going

 

what trunk group ID are you guys using?

 

not sure. still learning. I know we use 800MHz motorola trunked radios.
the repeater locations are: lakeside plaza in oakland, san leandro hills, sunol ridge, coyote hills in fremont, crane ridge in livermore, walpert ridge in hayward

we carry VHF radios

Green is our normal one we use 155.070
then the other channels on our vhf radios are:
clemars 154.920
calcord 156.075
fire1 154.280
fire 2 154.265
fire 3 154.295
west fire 154.070
east fire 154.235
SAR 2 155.220
marin SAR 155.160
sonoma SAR 155.160
coco SAR 155.040


i have a 10~ page printout of i think every frequency in california, updated jan 17 2008

i can bring it to the curtner meet tonight, if you go

 

just found this on the coco site http://www.cccfpd.org/communications/freq.html

and this is a few pages from my training handout http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache...ient=firefox-a

 

well COCOs are out my scanner's range...

dang hills.

 

any HOT single chicks there????

 

a badge bunny, eh?

 

Hmm... this makes me want to buy a scanner now... Would any of you guys recommend this?

http://www.unidendirect.com/itemdeta...CD996T&tabid=1

 

Thats one of the ones I use.

 

Here is the mother of all scanner sites..

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?stid=6

Have fun...

 

careful. uniden software sucks more than a dyson vacuum cleaner.

and yes, you HAVE TO PROGRAM your scanner via a computer these days.

what a shock it was to me, spending a few $$$$ for a scanner then spending about another $70 or so.

but it was all worth it.

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