To all my visitors. I would like to take this opportunity to briefly explain my long absence. After the last updates in mid-November, my step-grandmother became ill from pneumonia and slipped into a coma.
On December 15, she passed away at the long-life age of 94. She had been in our family since 1967, the year I was born. After her passing I decided that I needed time to be with my immediate family and cherish their company as we are only here but a brief time on this Earth.
Now that I have had the time to gather my thoughts, I feel I am ready to continue forward. That said, today I have begun working on updates for Police-Scanner.info, Police Scanner Blog, “Scannerhead” Newsletter, and the PoliceAndFireVideos.com and PoliceAndFirePhotos.com websites.
Updates for Police-Scanner.info will be completed and uploaded later this week. Police Scanner Blog posts will also resume later this week. The police and fire video and photos website updates will begin on March 1, 2011. And finally, the next issue of “Scannerhead” Newsletter will resume the first week of March with the March 2011 issue.
I thank you for your patience and continued visitorship and hope to provide useful and informative content to the scanning community for a long time to come.
As always, till next time, stay safe!
-RF
February 14, 2011
November 23, 2010
Birdie Frequencies
Birdie frequencies are signals that are internally generated by a radio scanner that can cause interference with some frequencies.
Birdies typically ocur with or without the scanner's antenna attached. If you suspect that a birdie may be interfearing with a particular frequency or channel, try removing the antenna to see if the interfearance disapears.
If the interfearance disapears, the interfearance is most likely the result of electronic equiptment in the vicinity of the scanner.
The following is a list of commonly known birdie frequencies. If you have a problem with a birdie frequency, simply lock it out.
That's it for now. Till next time, stay safe and happy scanning!
Birdies typically ocur with or without the scanner's antenna attached. If you suspect that a birdie may be interfearing with a particular frequency or channel, try removing the antenna to see if the interfearance disapears.
If the interfearance disapears, the interfearance is most likely the result of electronic equiptment in the vicinity of the scanner.
The following is a list of commonly known birdie frequencies. If you have a problem with a birdie frequency, simply lock it out.
- 31.05
- 32.00
- 41.40
- 51.75
- 74.20
- 113.850
- 124.200
- 128.000
- 139.995
- 140.000
- 144.900
- 155.250
- 167.995
- 171.250
- 471.987
- 483.925
- 511.925
That's it for now. Till next time, stay safe and happy scanning!
November 6, 2010
Police Conduct in the News
I came across a couple of interesting stories involving police conduct while surfing the web and thought I'd share them with you all. If you have a comment about either, leave them in the comment section.
+ "Officers Under Fire For Radio Chatter"
Indianapolis police and an area school district are investigating claims that officers are using radio frequencies without the proper permission.
John, a licensed ham radio operator and former police, fire and ambulance dispatcher who wanted to remain anonymous, told 6News' Jack Rinehart that late at night, he hears officers have conversations on a frequency licensed to Greenfield Schools.
"It wasn't the type of conversation I would expect to hear on that frequency," John said. "They were talking about cases they were working on. They were running license numbers and talking about people coming and going from an east side apartment complex."
John said he's recorded 72 hours of what sounded like car-to-car conversations, some of them not fit for broadcast. Read full story...
+ "Training Becomes Issue After Fatal Police Shooting"
A Boone County (IA) dispatcher who asked a caller to move closer to a knife-wielding suspect has not received basic training offered by the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy, Boone County Sheriff Ron Fehr told The Des Moines Register.
The suspect, who witnesses described as acting erratically, was fatally shot Oct. 25 by a Boone police officer inside a Hy-Vee Food Store.
When several people called 911 to report the suspect's behavior, Jeanie Driscoll, a dispatcher for 16 years, asked one caller, "Since you don't have visual on this guy, is there any way you can get to him?"
The caller replied: "Sure. Let me go down. I'm upstairs right now. I'll be just a sec, OK?"
The dispatcher failed to follow internationally recognized standards when she asked the caller to try to locate the suspect, a national group said last week. Read full story...
-RF
+ "Officers Under Fire For Radio Chatter"
Indianapolis police and an area school district are investigating claims that officers are using radio frequencies without the proper permission.
John, a licensed ham radio operator and former police, fire and ambulance dispatcher who wanted to remain anonymous, told 6News' Jack Rinehart that late at night, he hears officers have conversations on a frequency licensed to Greenfield Schools.
"It wasn't the type of conversation I would expect to hear on that frequency," John said. "They were talking about cases they were working on. They were running license numbers and talking about people coming and going from an east side apartment complex."
John said he's recorded 72 hours of what sounded like car-to-car conversations, some of them not fit for broadcast. Read full story...
+ "Training Becomes Issue After Fatal Police Shooting"
A Boone County (IA) dispatcher who asked a caller to move closer to a knife-wielding suspect has not received basic training offered by the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy, Boone County Sheriff Ron Fehr told The Des Moines Register.
The suspect, who witnesses described as acting erratically, was fatally shot Oct. 25 by a Boone police officer inside a Hy-Vee Food Store.
When several people called 911 to report the suspect's behavior, Jeanie Driscoll, a dispatcher for 16 years, asked one caller, "Since you don't have visual on this guy, is there any way you can get to him?"
The caller replied: "Sure. Let me go down. I'm upstairs right now. I'll be just a sec, OK?"
The dispatcher failed to follow internationally recognized standards when she asked the caller to try to locate the suspect, a national group said last week. Read full story...
-RF
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