It's that time of the year again; the helicopters are out en masse to search for the latest bumper crop of pot, weed, Mary Jane, Mary J. Wanna, whatever you want to call it. It's a little disconcerting because they fly very low and tend to hover, which for me causes flashbacks of Vietnam (yes, I'm serious.)
Happy hunting, Drug Enforcement Agency!
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Since I was a kid I have been into radios - shortwave, aircraft monitoring, EMS, etc. So today I have a rack of "police scanners".(perhaps I will post on this in the future). I regularly listen to the police in these parts, specifically "Air-2" (chopper). Every once in a while it'll fly over my place. It gets very interesting when Air-2 collaborates with the canine unit as they chase some guy after an attempted break-in. Air-2 even uses infra-red to detect "grow ops".
I'd love to hear the play-by-play r.e. the canine unit. I didn't know about using infra-red for detection. I've always wondered how they spot the operations that, I hear, are very well-hidden.
Just remembered: if you want to listen to live police/fire/other in your area just go here:
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/
Click onto the applicable state/county and a list of feeds will come up (not all areas covered). Click the one you want and get in on the action.
TH2, I checked the link, and would you believe that Athens County is one of 11 counties in Ohio that does NOT have a live audio feed listed? The other 77 counties have gotten at least into the 20th century. Sheesh!
That being said, the local excuse-for-a-newspaper does carry a link to a few local police scanners, for anyone who's interested:
http://www.athensmessenger.com/police_scanners/
Rats. Maybe a feed will come eventually. Nonetheless, you might consider keeping the link - it is good for listening in to the "live raw feed" when something significant in the news happening around the country - and you don't have to deal with the "in between" of news anchor commentating.
For aviation incidents: www.liveatc.net
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