--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Florian Anwander
<Florian.Anwander@...> wrote:

> Sorry, may be I am a stupid one, but: What the heck is a "police

scanner"

>
> I know the police as a public institution for inner the monopole

of lordship

>
> I know a scanner as a gear, which converts pictures to image

files, or

> in a wider meaning as anything that searches for kind of signals.
>
> What does the "police scanner" scan Is it used by the police to

scan

> for some things (whatever thy may be), or do you scan the

sourrounding

> for police men Sorry, but I just live in country where you do not

fear

> the police; so this would sound a littlebit ridiculous to me.
>
> Florian
>

Not such a stupid question Florian.

"scanner" in this instance refers to a radio scanner that allows you
to listen in on radio broadcasts outside the normal commercial
broadcast range. This includes police radio transmissions, aircraft
transmissions etc.

Cheers,
Adam-V