The Martins are Democratic Party activists who happen to keep a police radio scanner and a tape recorder in their car.

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The FM radio's scanner "found" a station at virtually every legal frequency, even when no signal was present--as well as several channels unusable in North America.

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MRI, Dr Giorgio employed an ultrasonic scanner to help him guide the device which generated the radio waves to its target.

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