Blast from the past!

[scottct1]

Was doing some clean up and found this beauty from 1996. It’s how many of us programmed our scanners before there ever was a RadioReference!

inside I found the receipt from Lentini’s and a copy of my credit card slip, back when they use to imprint your card in the machine. I can still hear the ker-chunk sound when they did it.

Since I am in Newington I took a picture of the Newington section. I wonder how many of these listings are still current. interesting to see one of our current police dispatchers and our current fire chief were running repeaters back then.

Enjoy!

 

[doctordialtone]

Since I am in Newington I took a picture of the Newington section

I grew up in Newington and started listening to them in 1968 on a AM/FM/VHF Hi Band radio.

All town services were on 156.00 Mhz at the time, and then they switched to 460.425 Mhz.

Lentini's was in New Britain at the time and I bought my first scanner - a Regency TMR 8 H/L - there.

At one time, I made friends with one of the police officers, and got to sit in on the dispatch desk and answer phones.

Nice town. My Sister still lives there. Thanks for the photos and recollections.

 

[W1KNE]

Hey @ecps92 , check it out!!

 

[buddrousa]

Here is a history lesson
Playboy Magazine 1996 was $4.95
Scanner Frequency Book 1996 was $19.95
Analog Scanners $400

 

[darcon832]

Don't remember seeing that book but I used to get the Radio Shack one every year.

 

[cg]

Somewhere I still have some of Keith's newsletter, The Alarm Room News, along with all those old books.

 

[Dan6071]

I still have my old frequency books from radio shack and J&S radio.

 

[ecps92]

Was doing some clean up and found this beauty from 1996. It’s how many of us programmed our scanners before there ever was a RadioReference!

inside I found the receipt from Lentini’s and a copy of my credit card slip, back when they use to imprint your card in the machine. I can still hear the ker-chunk sound when they did it.

Since I am in Newington I took a picture of the Newington section. I wonder how many of these listings are still current. interesting to see one of our current police dispatchers and our current fire chief were running repeaters back then.

Enjoy!

I still use all (ME, NH, VT, RI, CT and MA) nof mine for reference, especially some of the Business Licenses who expired, but still use the Radio And some of those editors are still around - both here and on RR -sadly our chief publisher passed away in 2011

Obituary of Robert Arnold Coburn | McGuiness Funeral Home

Robert A. Coburn, formerly of Londonderry, NH, passed away at The Villages, FL on February 20, 2011. Born in Springfield, MA on August 26, 1941, Robert came to New Hampshire in 1968 to become a full professor in the Department of Business Administration at Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH...

hiers-baxley.com

 

[Tom_G]

Nice find. Not sure what I did with my old books.
They were a great source of information.
I lived in Newington for 25+ years.
Going to be interesting to see what stuff goes to CLRMN and what stays on the LTR system.

 

[sprman1955]

Still uses my 2002 Police Call! Angelo

 

[citiot]

PCI DSS not even thought of.

 

[Kitn1mcc]

i still have mine someplace around here. . always love the maps in the front

 

[55engine]

I talk to bill all the time form Lentini's he doing good for who knows him

 

[Photo3]

I have that same edition laying around somewhere I got from Lentini's. I bought a few different ones back then. I also have some Alarm Room News booklets from at least the early 1990s.

 

[scottct1]

Going to be interesting to see what stuff goes to CLRMN and what stays on the LTR system.

Just police and fire are moving, everything else is staying on LTR.

 

[p1879]

Let us not forget Tom Kneital's fantastic guide to Federal Frequencies. "Top Secret Guide" was the name (?). "Uncle Tom " was a real pioneer, and helped publicize Low band VHF skip reception as well.

 

[izzyj4]

Still have my copy as well!

 

[Indianabrad]

Was doing some clean up and found this beauty from 1996. It’s how many of us programmed our scanners before there ever was a RadioReference!

RR was already around in 1995, because when I first got the internet that year, I said "I need to find out where the state police went. So I searched on the web & found RR for the first time and was able to find out that the state police had moved to 800MHz analog. And I was thrilled that my Pro2004 did 800MHz, so I punched them right in & brought them right up again. I got my 2004 in early 1989, did half a dozen mods to in it '91, it was my main scanner till 2005 and I still use it today for ham & a few left analog.

 

[N1GTL]

A few mods? 1N914? lol

 

[ecps92]

RR was already around in 1995, because when I first got the internet that year, I said "I need to find out where the state police went. So I searched on the web & found RR for the first time and was able to find out that the state police had moved to 800MHz analog. And I was thrilled that my Pro2004 did 800MHz, so I punched them right in & brought them right up again. I got my 2004 in early 1989, did half a dozen mods to in it '91, it was my main scanner till 2005 and I still use it today for ham & a few left analog.

I don't think it was RR back then, wasn't it Trunked Radio something. ??
or I am totally throwing crap at the wall