Nice video, that radio in that condition is one in a million. Very difficult to find in that good of shape with a display that works and a receiver that still receives.
Unfortunately even in rural areas there are very few places left that are completely conventional, non trunking. I know places like that exist but not in my part of the world. I certainly enjoyed those days when I was a kid in the 60s... I especially liked VHF low simplex... 33MHz, 39 MHz and 45 MHz.
So this is in the Uniden Tavern so that eliminates the majority of the real all time classic scanners. They were made by companies that existed before Uniden was in the scanner business prior to 1983 when they bought the Electra company in Cumberland Indiana and the "Bearcat" name. By that time all of the real classic programmable radios were already developed and in service. Sticking with just Bearcat scanners we eliminate so many great Classics made by GRE for RadioShack, Regency, AOR... Ect.
First of all when I entered the hobby as a kid we didn't have scanners. This is what I used.
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Technically my first scanner which was an all-time classic for so many folks here was the Bearcat lll, I used the VHF high/ low model.
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We were actually in the space age at that time and this was Space Age.
My all-time favorite classic was my first programmable scanner, the Bearcat 101.
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$399.99 at Lafayette Electronics in 1975, my first year out of college. That would be pushing a thousand bucks in today's world and worth every penny.
Then we had the Bearcat 210 which was keyboard programmable and it was after that Uniden took over Electra Co. and continued the 200 series... of course then came the classic Uniden trunktrackers.
Honorable mention would have to be given to 2 great classics introduced together in 2003, the GRE RS Pro 96 and the Uniden bc250d, the first handheld digital scanners.
band. Those conversations were very clandestine, with the agents never mentioning physical addresses or locations, describing everything by landmarks and using code words so it was pretty tough, and boring, to actually figure out what in the heck they were doing. This scanner had the old screw base connector, before BNC. I would take a ground plane radial from a 1/4 wave CB antenna and screw it in there, and it increased the listening range by several miles. I hope this brought back some memories to someone.
