WEWS Channel 5 - Old Scanners

[eorange]

Ted Henry from WEWS Channel 5 in Cleveland recently celebrated a 35 year anniversary. I grabbed this picture from wews.com. It's obviously from the late 70's...check out those Bearcats!

 

[Thunderbolt]

The scanners pictured, are from the early-to-mid 1970s. I had to admit it, but they really bring back a lot of memories from a time when monitoring local police and fire calls, was a lot less complicated, and the radio were a lot less sophisticated. All you needed was the right crystals and you were in business.

73s

Ron

 

[wa8pyr]

The scanners pictured, are from the early-to-mid 1970s. I had to admit it, but they really bring back a lot of memories from a time when monitoring local police and fire calls, was a lot less complicated, and the radio were a lot less sophisticated. All you needed was the right crystals and you were in business.

The top one appears to be a Bearcat III, which was my first scanner back in the day...

Tom

 

[SLWilson]

Bearcat

The top one appears to be a Bearcat III, which was my first scanner back in the day...

Tom

I still have mine in the closet!!!! )The Bearcat III....I have crystals for a couple of the things in our area that haven't gone "sophisticated" !!!!!

Steve/KB8FAR

 

[KevinTheMule]

As if we weren't geeky enough...is the a sub-culture to our sub-culture that is "into" old scanners like that? I know of a whole cottage industry revolving around old tube radios and guitar amps and stuff. Are there guys out there that restore and maybe even manufacture parts/crystals for the old equipment?

I thought I was old-school with my BC-140 I keep on 24/7...