Frequencies used by Police in urban areas may soon be encrypted, many are already. So what's next? Fire scanners?
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Probably because thats all most people use them for.AIRMAN wrote:Why is it that some countries call than 'Police' scanners? The media tend to call them that as well.
Radio scanners predate document or flat bed scanners by many years.or, it could be used to differentiate document scannersor flat bed scanners from scanning radio receivers.
The term 'scanner' comes from the fact that the receiver 'scans' across a number of channels, rather than just sitting on one channel.blondie wrote: I've never liked the term "scanner" for a receiver, I prefer to call them "communication receivers".
What law???Comint wrote:And Icom called their scanners "communications receivers" to get around a copyright law.
"Law" may have been the wrong word to use, but apparently one of the major scanner manufacturers copyrighted the term "radio scanner" some years back, so any other manufacturer using that term since that time is in breach of copyright, unless, of course, they pay "Royalties" to the copyright holder.Stretch wrote:What law???Comint wrote:And Icom called their scanners "communications receivers" to get around a copyright law.