So as many of you know the fire situation here in OR is pretty wild. I'm under a level 2 evac now and I'll be up all night listening to the scanner and plotting Google Earth to understand how much danger I am in. Thus far, we have some wind driven fires, some suspicious fires, and some out right arson all coming across the scanner. As you can imagine listening to the scanner (broadcastfly) and plotting the problems on the map gives one a real time handle on the level of confusion / how well things are being handled.
Since this may not be just fire in the not so distant future - I want some thing. I want a better way to scan frequencies and plot problems when the power and the internet is down. I realize I will be working with paper maps (got lots of them). What I do not have is a scanner. I want something that is both conventionally powered and battery operated. I want something that works like Broadcastfly (multi freq at once), is very capable, portable, quick to set up and not more than $300 if possible.
Thank you all
Since this may not be just fire in the not so distant future - I want some thing. I want a better way to scan frequencies and plot problems when the power and the internet is down. I realize I will be working with paper maps (got lots of them). What I do not have is a scanner. I want something that is both conventionally powered and battery operated. I want something that works like Broadcastfly (multi freq at once), is very capable, portable, quick to set up and not more than $300 if possible.
Thank you all
