awal
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I hear you. That’s a lot of dough for a scanner. Fortunately I live in an area where i can listen to this
https://openmhz.com/systems
I doubt if I’d spend 700 bucks on a radio
Amazon Prime scanner prices today
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https://openmhz.com/systems
I doubt if I’d spend 700 bucks on a radio
I would disagree. Here's a comment I made in another thread discussing scanner prices a while ago:
Arguably, the best most feature-packed scanner you could buy 30 years ago was the Pro-2005. In 1990, the Pro-2005 retailed for $419.95. Adjusting for inflation using the CPI Inflation Calculator, that is about $830 in today's dollars. The SDS-200 (the best, most feature-packed scanner today) has a MSRP of $749.
Go back 20 more years, the most expensive scanner Radio Shack sold in 1971 was an 8 channel crystal controlled Sonar VHF Monitor which retailed for $189.95 - that is about $1200 when adjusted for inflation!
I think the argument can be made that a top-of-line scanner costs less today than it did in years past.
edit: 2005 typo
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mule1075
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Actually when the top of the line Pro 2006 came out in 1992 it was just shy of $400. In today's money that would be near as makes no difference $730 so in all reality scanning has not gotten any more expensive at all.
Source: page 72 of the 1990 Radio Shack catalog ('2005" typo corrected):
1990 Radio Shack Catalog High-res page 72 of 184
1990 Radio Shack Catalog High-res page 72 of 184
www.radioshackcatalogs.com
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In early 2004, Grove Enterprises was selling the BC296D for $524.95 (Check here... last page, bottom right):
In today's dollars that would be $711.82.
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
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My God. Inflation is through the roof.
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Cool website. Is it locked down to "dispatch only" channels or talk groups for police like Broadcastify?
Does that site even ever open? Ever? All I get is the spinning spiral of madness.... And you better hope its dispatch only or your gonna see a hell of lotta more Big E on things.
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Yes it works fine for me. I tried it on both Firefox and Chrome browsers.
As for dispatch only the main pages says -
All The Calls
Every call, on every talkgroup is recorded
techman210
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My first scanner with 8 crystals back in the day was about $740 today after being adjusted for inflation.
awal
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On many of the sites you can select “group” then listen to tac channels there.
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The most expensive radio I ever bought was a 1975 Electra bearcat 101, programmable using tabs and a code book. Dynamite radio, incredible for its time. 399.99 at Lafayette Electronics. I'd like to know how much that is in today's money. LOL.
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Amazing, I was 25 years old then and out of college with a good job and I could afford it.
I never regretted that purchase, it was a fantastic radio and after being able to only listen to one thing on a tunable radio or buying crystals by the dozens it was great to have 16 channels that I could program on a radio that received exceptionally well. Quite a bit was on VHF low-band simplex but we were starting to get more UHF repeaters also.
Again, no matter what it cost I was going to get that radio... Y'all know the feeling.
I never regretted that purchase, it was a fantastic radio and after being able to only listen to one thing on a tunable radio or buying crystals by the dozens it was great to have 16 channels that I could program on a radio that received exceptionally well. Quite a bit was on VHF low-band simplex but we were starting to get more UHF repeaters also.
Again, no matter what it cost I was going to get that radio... Y'all know the feeling.
I wouldn't mind having a nice AOR. Always have, but even on fleabay they go for a pretty penny. I just can't justify the cost. Rather upgrade the CPU or GPU in my computer.
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