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Looking to get a scanner so I can monitor emergency channel here in Broward. Any suggestions?

There are free scanner aps, not all police dept's are available on them
But free to check out.

you need to find out if your local agencies use "trunked" systems,
if so you need a scanner with trunking ability so you can hear both
sides of a conversation.

Broward Cty is still on their old analog 800 MHz trunking system. Ft. Lauderdale is on their new Phase 1 digital 800 MHz trunking system. Neither is encrypted. I listen on a Motorola XTS2500. GARY.

Slartibartfast wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 7:45 pm you need to find out if your local agencies use "trunked" systems,
if so you need a scanner with trunking ability so you can hear both
sides of a conversation.

And scanners that can "descramble" digital signals. I had a very good scanner but pretty much all of the police frequencies these days are "digital."

Most Broward agencies are going to the new system by the end of the year.