Scanner Radio - Police Scanner

GordonEdwards.net LLC

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About this app

Listen to live audio from over 7,000 fire and police scanners, NOAA weather radio stations, ham radio repeaters, air traffic, and marine radios from around the world. Turn on notifications to receive alerts anytime a scanner has more than 2000 listeners (to find out about major events and breaking news).

FEATURES

• View scanners located nearest you.
• View the top 50 scanners (those that have the most listeners).
• View scanners added most recently (new scanners are being added all the time).
• Add scanners you listen to the most to your Favorites for quick access.
• Browse the directory by location or genre (public safety, aviation, railroad, marine, weather, etc).
• Turn on notifications to be notified when major events are happening (details below).
• Add Scanner Radio widgets and shortcuts to your home screen for quick access.

NOTIFICATION FEATURES

Receive a notification anytime:

• ...any scanner in the directory has more than 2000 listeners (configurable).
• ...a scanner within a certain distance of your location has more than a certain number of listeners.
• ...a specific scanner has more than a certain number of listeners.
• ...a Broadcastify alert is posted for one of your favorites.
• ...a scanner within a certain distance from you is added to the directory.

Using the notifications feature is a great way to find out about breaking news events before they're covered in the media.

Below are the benefits of upgrading to Scanner Radio Pro:

• No ads.
• Access to all 6 theme colors.
• Ability to record what you're hearing.

The audio you're able to hear is provided by volunteers (and, in many cases, police and fire departments and 911 dispatch centers themselves) for Broadcastify and a few other sites using real police scanners, ham radios, weather radios, and marine radios and is the same as what you'd hear using your own police scanner.

Some of the more popular departments that you can listen to using the app include NYPD, FDNY, LAPD, and Chicago Police. During hurricane season it can be useful to listen to ham radio "hurricane net" scanners which contain weather conditions and damage reports when hurricanes and tropical storms are approaching or making landfall as well as NOAA weather radio scanners.

Interested in providing scanner radio audio for your area? If so, you'll need a real scanner radio, a computer, and a cable to get the audio from the scanner to the computer. Once you have that, program the scanner to monitor what you'd like to make available from your area (police dispatch channels, fire departments, 911 centers, ham radio repeaters, a NOAA weather radio station, etc). If someone in your area is providing a feed that contains both police and fire you could provide a feed that contains only police, only fire, or one that covers only certain districts/precincts. Next, go to Broadcastify.com's web site and click on the Broadcast button to sign-up (it's completely free) to provide scanner audio for your area. As a provider you'll have complete access to the audio archives for all of the scanner feeds they host.

Scanner Radio has been featured in:

• The "Amazing Android Apps for Dummies" book
• Android Authority's "5 Best Police Scanner Apps for Android" article
• The Droid Guy's "7 Best Police Scanner Apps for Free on Android" article
• Make Tech Easier's "4 of the Best Police Scanner Apps for Android" article

The Scanner Radio app is a perfect companion to the Pulse Point and Mobile Patrol apps as well as weather, hurricane tracker, and breaking news apps.

Ratings and reviews

This app is the best one. It's free and the ads are not intrusive. It gives me all the channels I need and want. Once I tuned in to a Puerto Rico channel and it was up and running and sounded clear & smooth. The biggest bonus for me was getting the NOAA weather radio!! I bought two of the little walkie talkie looking radios this year and they were garbage. So I'm very happy with this app! Great job!

The advertisement that pops up every time you open the application they make it almost impossible to close it. I just checked my phone and someone else who uses it and we found somehow we downloading the advertising apps !! It has become super boring when something important happens when your trying to use the scanner next thing you know you got to add that pops up at the very beginning and you miss everything you were trying to listen too. It's become a pain

There is significant delay (few minutes) from the time a call is dispatched to when it is broadcast over the scanner app. The PulsePoint app usually has the information already shared by the time it comes through this app. Additionally, it would be nice to be able to listen to both LE as well as local fire/medic calls at the same time like you can on real scanners. Should be a feature available for that.

What's new

• Fixed a bug in which the last played scanner wasn't being remembered after tapping on a notification.
• Android 9: Fixed a bug which caused settings screens to not be displayed correctly.