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No, a television converter box will not work on a police radio scanner. There is currently no way to make this conversion. One cost-effective method of listening to digital police, fire and other communications without purchasing a digital police scanner is through the download and installation of a free smartphone application which receives digital transmissions. There are many available for both Android and iPhone.

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You can switch from an analog police scanner to a digital police scanner if it has the capabiltiies. Some newer scanners come equipped with both analog and digital capabilities.

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No, it's not the same as tv signals, and even if someone could devise a way to do it, it would not be able to keep up with the trunking in the digital CB systems.

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