2026-02-08 16:11 UTC
@sashag@anarres.family I think the police scanners that you can generally buy are receivers, only. They scan a lot of frequencies to pick up signals from many transmitters in a frequency band, but don't have transmitters in them. Transmitting on police and emergency frequencies without a license would be quite illegal.
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@phreakmonkey@infosec.exchange 2026-02-08 17:06
@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social @sashag@anarres.family agreed. And in all but the most rural areas, the police have moved to encrypted digital trunking systems instead of analog radios, so scanners aren't very useful. The first half of the advice about PPD and buckets to contain smoke grenades is 👍 though