Pro46 & Pro94

[Blueshockeyfan]

I have a Pro46 in great shape. Radio and antenna only. No manual (like you will need one.) Asking $40.

Also have a Pro94. Same as above. Great shape. Radio and antenna only. No manual.
Asking $70

[NBW791]

Funny - those are the same two handhelds I have. Heck, I'm not even sure where they are right now. They've been boxed up for years since I lost interest in listening to the noisemakers.

I always kept the PRO46 around because it would get cell phones in the 900mhz band and I read the newer scanners wouldn't receive it. I just couldn't bring myself to sell it, plus it was the first one I bought back in 1993.

I can't tell you how many great cell phone conversations I heard on that scanner. Cordless phones close by too. I learned some interesting things about some neighborhood girls when I was teenager!

I kind of miss the days of good ol' conventional channels. No trying to decode all the trunk crap....it was much easier back then. Heck, I had pretty much every frequency in Jackson County memorized!

[Blueshockeyfan]

That's interesting. I have heard you can pick up cordless phones and baby monitors. I have never heard them.
Could be interesting.

[NBW791]

They used to be in the 46 and 49mhz band. I heard plenty of good cordless conversations over the years. People use to show up to my house for family gatherings and want to listen to my scanner.

[Joe]

Keep in mind that those activities are illegal

[NBW791]

Two things:

#1 - Only if you are using information you hear AGAINST someone. Just to listen is different. It's public airwaves - not tapping into anything just using the "limit search" feature.

#2 - The statute of limitations is WAY past.

Prime example - I read a story many years ago about a lady who was listening to her scanner and heard her neighbors plotting a murder. She contacted the police and they ended up arresting the people. It showed her picture in the paper with her police scanner and she was considered a hero.

I don't understand how that wouldn't be supressed though, because she DID use what she heard against them. Oh well....don't say something on a cordless you don't want somebody to hear.

Man - Google is great "murder plot police scanner" and I hit the nail on the head.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... A962958260

Murder Plot Is Overhead on Police Scanner
Published: December 31, 1994

A woman listening to a police scanner she had received for Christmas picked up a conversation over cordless telephones and heard what turned out to be a murder plot unfolding, investigators say.

The woman, Donna McGee, tipped sheriff's deputies to what she had heard, and on Thursday, a woman and her boyfriend were arrested and accused of conspiring to kill the woman's husband and make it look like a burglary gone awry.

"It appears their motive was to collect the insurance money and get out of debt and for them to continue their lives together," Capt. Joe Ball of the Sheriff's Department said.

The suspects, Jacqueline Lee Greene, 32, and Christopher Scott Davis, 21, were charged with conspiracy to murder Mrs. Greene's husband, James K. Greene. Mr. Davis was also charged with criminal attempt to commit murder.

Mrs. McGee said the scanner chatter she heard on Wednesday quickly caught her attention.

She recalled: "I heard this man say, 'Are you sure you want to go through with this?' She said she was sure, and asked him if he was sure. She asked him, 'Do you really love me enough to kill for me?' He said, 'Yes, I do. Do you have any doubts?' "

Some of Mrs. McGee's family soon joined her in listening. When the woman on the scanner telephoned her daughter, Mrs. McGee's daughter recognized a playmate's name. Eventually, the McGees said, they realized the identity of the intended victim.

Cordless telephones use radio waves that can easily be intercepted by a police scanner.

Captain Ball said there was nothing illegal in Mrs. McGee's listening to the cordless phone conversations because it was a random scanning.

From another blog...

31 Dec 94 06:50:38 EST
The AP newswire (via CompuServe's Executive News Service) for 94.12.30 @ 20:02
EST reports on a murder plot ruined by use of a cordless phone:

Scanner Plot

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A woman listening to a police scanner she had gotten for Christmas picked up a conversation over cordless telephones and heard what turned out to be a murder plot unfolding, investigators say.

The article explains that Donna McGee heard a woman and her boyfriend plotting to kill the woman's husband and then collect insurance money. As the family gathered around in horror, "Mrs. McGee's daughter recognized a playmate's name" and the family figured out "the identity of the intended victim."

Law enforcement officials said that because Mrs McGee was not purposely zeroing in on a specific conversation but only scanning across the bands, she had broken no laws in listening to the murder plot.

[scanrrman]

I've had some really good hits!!! I hate how no one else is there listening........but I don't listen, no not me, no really I don't.....