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This probably won't be as cool to the people actually in EMS right now, but is was definitely cool to me to listen to the medic's and fire guys talk back and forth and with dispatch.

You can search for you county or state and choose services from there.

http://www.broadcastify.com/

They also do police, air craft, and rail radio scans!

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You can get an app for your iphone that let's you listen to things all over the world. If anyone tells you that I have used the app while driving and pretended to be using lights and sirens, they are lying.

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If someone could get a verification on what I've heard, to wit, services like this delay listeners from hearing the "action" for a period of 15 to 30 minutes after the actual broadcast. I prefer my 1000 channel self programed Radio Shack base and handheld scanners, and my Home Patrol automatically programmed scanner to hear it as it is actually being transmitted.

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Just mentioning that I'm trying to get a NYS Vehicle and Traffic Law changed. Currently, radios capable of picking up Police broadcasts are forbidden in cars. As the radio spectrum has shifted, with FD and EMS frequencies, not to mention interagency operations frequencies, being right alongside PD frequencies, I could be ticketed for listening to the JFK Airport Tower in my van.
I also want to allow EMS and FD personnel, even the retired ones, and private security and neighborhood watch people to be allowed to monitor, if they want, to PD broadcasts from their vehicles. Currently, the law only allows "Law Enforcement Personnel" to have such radios "installed".

Whoever wrote the law also didn't understand that scanners, are, by their nature, only capable of receiving transmissions, not "interfering with" them.

Anyone who is interested in my suggested changes, PM me, and I'll send you my file on the subject.

Oh, before I forget, my suggestions also mention that any off duty or retired personnel who might respond to a scene NOT interfere with any on duty personnel actually working the assignment, unless requested to assist by those on duty folks.

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Just mentioning that I'm trying to get a NYS Vehicle and Traffic Law changed. Currently, radios capable of picking up Police broadcasts are forbidden in cars. As the radio spectrum has shifted, with FD and EMS frequencies, not to mention interagency operations frequencies, being right alongside PD frequencies, I could be ticketed for listening to the JFK Airport Tower in my van. I also want to allow EMS and FD personnel, even the retired ones, and private security and neighborhood watch people to be allowed to monitor, if they want, to PD broadcasts from their vehicles. Currently, the law only allows "Law Enforcement Personnel" to have such radios "installed". Whoever wrote the law also didn't understand that scanners, are, by their nature, only capable of receiving transmissions, not "interfering with" them. Anyone who is interested in my suggested changes, PM me, and I'll send you my file on the subject. Oh, before I forget, my suggestions also mention that any off duty or retired personnel who might respond to a scene NOT interfere with any on duty personnel actually working the assignment, unless requested to assist by those on duty folks.
The easier way to get around this is to get your ham radio operators license. allowing you to operate a scanner in your personal vehicle.
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If someone could get a verification on what I've heard, to wit, services like this delay listeners from hearing the "action" for a period of 15 to 30 minutes after the actual broadcast. I prefer my 1000 channel self programed Radio Shack base and handheld scanners, and my Home Patrol automatically programmed scanner to hear it as it is actually being transmitted.

Actually I was listening this morning as the FD responded to a car wreck. Later today I heard the news that two people had been killed, and the media gave a time pretty close to when I was listening, so it seems legit.

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Actually I was listening this morning as the FD responded to a car wreck. Later today I heard the news that two people had been killed, and the media gave a time pretty close to when I was listening, so it seems legit. They are legit but there is a small delay of approx 5-20 seconds.

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My information, which admittedly can be flawed, held to retransmissions being delayed, to prevent the "lookie-loos" from running to an incident scene, potentially putting themselves in the line of fire of a shootout, or other dangers like being downwind of a chlorine gas leak.

It's nice to know that some agencies providing emergency service communications rebroadcast ARE playing them in "real time", or close to it. Until everyone goes into "scrambled" mode, I'll stick to my scanners.

FYI, I used to have a 1947 RCA Console TV. My radio hobbyist magazines both stated that my TV's channel ONE was capable of picking up NYPD radio traffic in that era. All I remember was a neighbor self-imposed "quiet hours" on himself, due to his HAM radio causing massive TV interference.

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The city I listen too is pretty small so I'm not too surprised that the broadcast isn't further delayed.

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