Scanners

[Ali]

Thank you both, very interesting. The price is very acceptable and from what I read many people are buying it for emergency reasons only. They have no intent on transmiting with it unless in case of emergency.

I see amazon sell the 5RE for £21 but it can't pick up on CB radio or AM, which might be really useful.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Baofeng-136-174...B00AHQGW9A

I can see these either flooding the market and catching the eye of the authorities to only sell to licence holders.
But £21 is cheaper than a scanner, with the added bonus of transmit if desperate, I guess two of these could act as a really good walky talky set for a family.

Any other thoughts before I buy one to store it away with my other prep items?
(I can only see the "event information" received, and what is going on as being useful, to bug in or bug out for example. Trusting anyone in a chat would be a no no I think.)