Posted: 4/1/2015 6:39:49 PM EDT
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A long time ago, my grandfather died and my grandmother gave my dad his scanner. I remember listening to this thing all the time as a kid.
My dad gave it to me today. Can this be fixed? I like to have it fixed and give it back to my dad. I'm not good at electronic type stuff so I would send it somewhere to get fixed. I screwed the antenna in and it will cycle through the ten channels and briefly stop on two channels like it's trying to pick something up. Everything seems to work except picking up the frequencies. It was originally programmed for rural NC and now i'm in VA. If fixed can it work in both NC and VA, I've read this may be a problem. Any info is appreciated. In as good conditions as this pic from the net: 
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A lot of police and fire departments have gone to an encrypted or trunking type system. That scanner won't do any of that. Look over on Radio reference and see what LEO and EMS use in your AO.
At the very least, you could listen to ham repeaters, NOAA weather channels and marine frequencies if your close to the ocean/major river. Some rural LEO.EMS are still on analog systems, but are going away quickly. ETA - I bet a quick cleaning of the switches with De-Oxit will fix it. 
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