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An Icom IC-R5 hand-held scanner A GMRS radio that also has scanning capabilities. A scanner (also referred to as a radio scanner) is a radio receiver that can automatically tune, or scan, two or more discrete frequencies, stopping when it finds a signal on one of them and then continuing to scan other frequencies when the initial transmission ceases.
Police radio. Police radio is a radio system used by police and other law enforcement agencies to communicate with one another. Police radio systems almost always use two-way radio systems to allow for communications between police officers and dispatchers . Most modern police radio systems are encrypted, and many jurisdictions have made ...
Multi-Use Radio Service. In the United States, the Multi-Use Radio Service ( MURS) is a licensed by rule (i.e. under part 95, subpart J, of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations [1]) two-way radio service similar to the Citizens band (CB). Established by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in the fall of 2000, MURS created a radio ...
A trunked radio system is a two-way radio system that uses a control channel to automatically assign frequency channels to groups of user radios. In a traditional half-duplex land mobile radio system a group of users (a talkgroup) with mobile and portable two-way radios communicate over a single shared radio channel, with one user at a time ...
The NYPD has begun encrypting scanner radios that the press and the public have used to monitor basic police communications for more than 90 years. While the desire to put such communications on ...
Project 25 ( P25 or APCO-25) is a suite of standards for interoperable digital two-way radio products. P25 was developed by public safety professionals in North America and has gained acceptance for public safety, security, public service, and commercial applications worldwide. [1] P25 radios are a direct replacement for analog UHF (typically ...
New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News
PMR446 (Private Mobile Radio, 446 MHz) is a licence-exempt service in the UHF radio frequency band and is available for business and personal use in most countries throughout the European Union. [1] PMR446 is typically used for small-site, same-building and line of sight outdoor activities. Equipment used ranges from consumer-grade to ...