Scanner 🇺🇸

A 'Scanner Radio Station' isn't a station broadcasting music; it's accessing live audio from public safety and other services using a radio scanner or online streams. Radio scanners receive a wide range of radio frequencies, unlike regular radios limited to AM/FM. Scanners can be programmed with frequencies used by police, fire departments, EMS, aviation (requiring aviation scanners), amateur radio, businesses, railroads, marine radio, and weather radio. Programming involves entering frequencies (often found on RadioReference.com) into the scanner, which then cycles through them, stopping when it detects activity. The rise of online scanner feeds offers accessibility through websites and apps like Broadcastify, RadioReference.com, and OpenMHz, where volunteers stream feeds. This provides cost-effective access to feeds without needing to program frequencies, though feed availability depends on volunteer maintenance.