{"id":50539,"date":"2021-10-13T07:21:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T11:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=50539"},"modified":"2021-10-13T07:21:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T11:21:02","slug":"mark-spots-a-scanner-in-chicago-fire-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/mark-spots-a-scanner-in-chicago-fire-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark spots a scanner in Chicago Fire TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas,<\/p>\n

I’m currently enjoying ‘Chicago Fire’ on Netflix and spotted this scanner at the fire station.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Taking a wild guess, I typed ‘realistic scanner’ into image search and eventually found one that looked similar, the Realistic Pro-57.<\/p>\n

Perhaps scanner enthusiasts can confirm this, and maybe share some memories about it, good or bad!<\/p>\n

Thanks for sharing this, Mark! Certainly not an easy scanner to ID from such a quick video frame, but I’m willing to bet some of our readers can comment and confirm the model and share any thoughts about this particular scanner!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes: Thomas, I’m currently enjoying ‘Chicago Fire’ on Netflix and spotted this scanner at the fire station. Taking a wild guess, I typed ‘realistic scanner’ into image search and eventually found one that looked similar, the Realistic Pro-57. Perhaps scanner enthusiasts can confirm this, and maybe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5803],"tags":[5458,5506,4316],"class_list":["post-50539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-scanners","tag-mark-hirst","tag-radios-in-movies","tag-scanners"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-d99","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23270,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/talking-scanners\/","url_meta":{"origin":50539,"position":0},"title":"Talking scanners…","author":"Thomas","date":"January 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Since I was a kid, I've always enjoyed listening to police, fire, public services\/utilities, and aviation communications on scanners. 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