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--- 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