Hello, just found this place (this subforum in particular) while Googling Loudoun County Sheriff's Office radio info. Found a lot of good info on quite a few different things, so I decided to join. I'm relatively new to Virginia, and live up in Loudoun Heights, not far from Harpers Ferry, WV.
As a kid I was really into radio and scanners, but technology started changing drastically in the mid/late '90s when I was a teenager. With the advent of trunked radio systems it became cost prohibitive for me to keep up, and I lost interest. Fast-forward about 20 years later, I bought a Uniden BC125AT on a whim last November. I was pleasantly surprised at the quality and features of the radio for the price, but was also disappointed that most of the "good stuff" around me was all digital.
I stopped into Radio Shack today, hoping to find an outdoor scanner antenna, but they were all gone. I found a few other little things the discounts made hard to pass up, and made my way to the counter, where something inside caught my eye: the Uniden BCD436HP. What can I say, I'm a sucker for huge, backlit alphanumeric displays. But it was the price tag that made my heart skip a beat -$300!!! I thought about it a few minutes, did a little research on my phone to make sure it was compatible with what I wanted to monitor, stared at it a couple more minutes while probably making some pretty strange faces, and eventually decided to just go for it. I've only been playing with it for about half an hour or so, but this thing is AMAZING! I'm really looking forward to using it to its full potential, and looking forward to participating here.
As a kid I was really into radio and scanners, but technology started changing drastically in the mid/late '90s when I was a teenager. With the advent of trunked radio systems it became cost prohibitive for me to keep up, and I lost interest. Fast-forward about 20 years later, I bought a Uniden BC125AT on a whim last November. I was pleasantly surprised at the quality and features of the radio for the price, but was also disappointed that most of the "good stuff" around me was all digital.
I stopped into Radio Shack today, hoping to find an outdoor scanner antenna, but they were all gone. I found a few other little things the discounts made hard to pass up, and made my way to the counter, where something inside caught my eye: the Uniden BCD436HP. What can I say, I'm a sucker for huge, backlit alphanumeric displays. But it was the price tag that made my heart skip a beat -$300!!! I thought about it a few minutes, did a little research on my phone to make sure it was compatible with what I wanted to monitor, stared at it a couple more minutes while probably making some pretty strange faces, and eventually decided to just go for it. I've only been playing with it for about half an hour or so, but this thing is AMAZING! I'm really looking forward to using it to its full potential, and looking forward to participating here.