stingray327
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH -kbod9633 (BOB)
Thank you for that very useful info KBOD9633.
I have been in the business of monitoring police/fire/public safety calls since 1971 using simple multi-band radios to crystal scanners up go analog/digital programmable trunking scanners requiring a computer.
This has been my personal hobby ever since we had had Radio Shack and Lafayette Electronics which both had knowledgeable staff and employees of which are now long gone.Lafayette electronics went out of business sometime after 1975 and Radio Shack this last year.
I have seen the many changes and reasons why this hobby is dying. Getting quality customer support quality service is gone. The real BAD thing is and most importantly not being able to get help from others who share the same love of this hobby who don't really care now with the new technologies that these scanners require. You get ridiculed or warned by people that run monitor these forums.
Good quality people are a minority today as the majority of them are just plain smart asses in their own little minds, stupid and don't really know the answers themselves.
They don't take the time to think they just open up their mouths up saying this and that not knowing all the facts yet they believe in their own little mind thinking being helpful and useful but in reality are just plain RUDE.
I am partially blind. The only eye I have left does not have full vision. I can read somewhat in one eye but with great difficulty. This is why this question might appear to be STUPID TO CERTAIN PEOPLE ON HERE being 80+ pages long.
This is killing off this hobby. Many times I have felt the same to quit this hobby and just let this hobby die a slow death. There are many times even sales people at the counter of these scanners stores if you can find one that you will find a knowledgeable person who can actually show you and explain to you in person about the features of the scanner and how to operate it. i.e. The sales people I have encountered at these scanner stores kiss it off as either they don't know or have the time to explain to a possible future customer, and just say, "google it" or search the internet i.e. U-Tube it or check other websites in here which skip alot of parts in the essence of time saving to make it look EASY.
Of course I get the very same thing here in the land of internet websites.
Lots of scanning publications we had before are now all gone. Just a pity.
So BOB, in light of all of the above and what I have experienced here, I appreciate your input and more importantly valuable very USEFUL information you have given to me. THANK YOU BOB.
Thank you for that very useful info KBOD9633.
I have been in the business of monitoring police/fire/public safety calls since 1971 using simple multi-band radios to crystal scanners up go analog/digital programmable trunking scanners requiring a computer.
This has been my personal hobby ever since we had had Radio Shack and Lafayette Electronics which both had knowledgeable staff and employees of which are now long gone.Lafayette electronics went out of business sometime after 1975 and Radio Shack this last year.
I have seen the many changes and reasons why this hobby is dying. Getting quality customer support quality service is gone. The real BAD thing is and most importantly not being able to get help from others who share the same love of this hobby who don't really care now with the new technologies that these scanners require. You get ridiculed or warned by people that run monitor these forums.
Good quality people are a minority today as the majority of them are just plain smart asses in their own little minds, stupid and don't really know the answers themselves.
They don't take the time to think they just open up their mouths up saying this and that not knowing all the facts yet they believe in their own little mind thinking being helpful and useful but in reality are just plain RUDE.
I am partially blind. The only eye I have left does not have full vision. I can read somewhat in one eye but with great difficulty. This is why this question might appear to be STUPID TO CERTAIN PEOPLE ON HERE being 80+ pages long.
This is killing off this hobby. Many times I have felt the same to quit this hobby and just let this hobby die a slow death. There are many times even sales people at the counter of these scanners stores if you can find one that you will find a knowledgeable person who can actually show you and explain to you in person about the features of the scanner and how to operate it. i.e. The sales people I have encountered at these scanner stores kiss it off as either they don't know or have the time to explain to a possible future customer, and just say, "google it" or search the internet i.e. U-Tube it or check other websites in here which skip alot of parts in the essence of time saving to make it look EASY.
Of course I get the very same thing here in the land of internet websites.
Lots of scanning publications we had before are now all gone. Just a pity.
So BOB, in light of all of the above and what I have experienced here, I appreciate your input and more importantly valuable very USEFUL information you have given to me. THANK YOU BOB.
