Welcome to the SA-SCAN website , the home of scanner monitoring information for South Australia. A scanner is a radio receiver that can automatically tune, or scan, two or more frequencies, stopping when it finds a signal on one of them and then continuing to scan other frequencies when the initial transmission ceases. In this way it is possible to program in multiple frequencies used by a variety of agencies and businesses and monitor their radio transmissions. One minute you could be listening the S.A. Me
Contrary to widespread belief, scanning is perfectly legal. However, you should not use information obtained from listening for commercial gain or criminal activity. Monitoring phone conversations on your scanner is also forbidden. Apart from that, you can pretty well scan as you please, though discretion is advised when using scanners in public. For instance, being an 'ambulance chaser' and turning up at accident scenes, hindering emergency services is an extremely foolish and inappropriate thing to do. Ge
In South Australia all emergency services and some semi government agencies use the Government Radio Network (GRN), this is a network of over 200 radio sites linked together to form a voice, data and paging network that covers approximately 96% of the population of South Australia and more than 220,000 sq km of landmass. There are approximately 14,000 mobile/portable voice users, 16,000 paging users and 500 mobile data terminals connected to the network. With the use of a 'trunk-tracking' capable scanner yo