[Harrison Sand] just finished a guide on how to use SDR to listen in on Police and Fire radio bands ... which has been popular with other DVB dongle hacks, handles the hardware work.

There was a time when it was easy to eavesdrop on police and other service radio networks. Police scanners fans can hear live police, fire, and ambulance calls. However, it isn’t as easy as it ...

‘Now is a time to remain vigilant and take an active role in hardening systems against these, now known, tactics,’ Datto CISO Ryan Weeks writes in a blog post announcing the scanner.