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Re: Scanners

I'm not sure what frequencies that NY state troopers use, but you can go 
to the 'shack and they have 2" thick frequency books that do nothing but 
publish those numbers. bearcat? i'm not familiar w/all their models. mine 
is an ICOM IC-R1 which is continuous from about 1Khz to a few 
Gigahertz... so not much gets by this thing if you have the right antenna 
hooked up to it.

if you really want to know what is going on around you... you need to 
purchase a frequency counter. they start at $100 and go up. they 
basically will tell you what the strongest signal around you is. this 
could be cell phone or the cops or the MacDonald's checkout clerk. again... 
check out the shack or a magazine called monitoring times for models and 
features. ultimately you hook up the counter to the scanner and let it 
all do the work for you.

another thing to keep in mind is that a lot of the traffic in the future, 
if not now in certain areas, is digital... and your analog scanner is 
meaningless to it.

cheers-
mcbath-