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Cop Talk!: How to Listen in on Law Enforcement Communications

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Just got an advance copy of Cop Talk, and was very impressed. Laura covers everything from how to choose a scanner to using your scanner to aid law enforcement. The book is well written, in plain english making it easy for those just getting into the hobby to pick up the terminology. Frequency ranges and 10 codes are also covered, making this book a useful addition to any collection.

This book is almost all fluff and you come away feeling that you have wasted both your time and money. There's little to nothing in here that you didn't know before you read the book.

I don't need to order this book to know it's full of "it". (And I don't mean information either) As a police dispatcher I know: 1. The sophistication of our radio equipment in this day makes non-LEO scans darned hard. (Helloooo...it jumps channel to channel faster that you can keep up) Just ask the newspaper folks who try.... 2. Just about every agency using code (signal codes and 10 codes) don't use the same code, so if you are scanning an agency like mine, who isn't dwelling in the dark ages, you'd better have about 200+ codes memorized *before* starting. Are you going to know what 321 10-65 signal 38 both parties 1012 means? And we fly folks. It's a fast moving pace.

I hate being so negative, but I hate the idea of folks wasting money on something like this, unless it's for a good read only.