Completely legal, but most services have moved to trunking systems on 800-900 MHz. You'll need a trunk tracking radio to keep up, but you can get "bits and pieces" just by scanning those freqs with an old fashioned scanner (if you have those bands covered).
It's also legal for police to encrypt channels if necessary, and you'll find that tactical freqs are often encrypted accordingly. But the vast majority is open for the public to hear. This is the radio I have, covers all those systems and more: https://www.amazon.com/Uniden-BCD436HP-HomePatrol-Digital-Handheld/dp/B00I33XDAK 73, KF5YHP Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 29, 2017, at 7:13 AM, Gayle Dotts via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote: > > Out of curiosity is it allowed to listen in on our radios? I looked up > scanner frequencies of 460.XXX range with a PL123.0 and scanned up and down > but heard nothing. Maybe it's blocked somehow. Just wanting to listen in > since we are in all this hurricane and flooded event situation. Any advise? > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > BVARC@bvarc.org > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Message delivered to ratnala...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list BVARC@bvarc.org http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
