Re: RE: MatteBlack
Uh, what the hell brought this on? Someone needs to grow up? If you look at the date of the post you are quoting above, it was at a time when THERE WAS NO SCANALBERTA site...
And as for the "unwitting scanner freaks" it was a reference to how the scanalberta.com domain ended up being obtained by the new owners of the domain, and that this was at no time disclosed to the people who were using the forums. It is NOT a reference to the people running the site. Please take the time to review the messages you are talking about and read them again with grammar in mind. Scanner freak is not a derogatory term for someone who is freakish about scanners. I AM A SCANNER FREAK. Anyhow, I digress, the new owners at no time disclosed to people asking questions that they were not the people that the previous users of the older scanalberta.com forums were expecting. Are you DEBATING this? This is a fact.
I don't have a problem with the domain changing hands and someone else giving it a go, just the way it was done and never disclosed to people outside of maybe a dozen people who found out how it all went down. And the fact that the logos from the old old Scanalberta site were then "appropriated" by the new owners without permission of the person who created them did not sit well with some.
As for sharing frequencies. There was nobody (at least no active participants) on the older forums from the location that the new forum owners are, therefore the frequencies that may be being shared now are ones that the previous owners did not have access to. At least the people who are in the area where the forum now is run from were not sharing before. Most of the frequencies shared in the older forum were for Edmonton. As this is where the vast majority of the people were posting from. The scanner people from Calgary (with a few notable and noble exceptions), had at times been unwilling to share with the people in Edmonton. At one point there was even a verbal warning given to people posting frequencies and discussions for Edmonton and area on the albertascan Yahoo group that is still in existence to take it off the list! It was all very junior high school at times, and yeah, it was dysfunctional as hell. The old site may still be around if there was ANY sort of contribution of stuff from ANY other place than Edmonton, but there was not. I know the people running the site eventually got fed up with repeatedly being hacked, and nobody else except maybe eight or nine people from Edmonton (including myself) posting. But if you were in the members forums on the old Scanalberta.com site, believe me, you had a crap load of frequencies available to you, and got to see some cutting edge tech at the several meetings held in conference rooms and hotel banquet rooms. At one of the meetings there was an official government of Alberta forestry and sustainable resources frequency (direct from a Conservation Officer) given out to all who attended. Hands on demonstrations of how to use Etrunker and Trunker (which is definitely not my expertise) to decode the City of Edmonton system was very handy.
As for growing up, I heard at one point the suggestion was from people using the new site down there in Lethbridge to put Scanalberta site back up and "not let any of the old people" sign back up again... Yeah, someone needs to grow up.
cst_gibson said:
some one needs to grow up ...
I like that they are willing to spend the time to find new freqs and update the info for everyone to use ...
they
share all the info with everyone !!
not a
select few ppl like it was done before .......
Or this
I have meet the site owners as well as some of the members they all are police/fire/ems/security /lawyers etc.. I can say they are not
unwitting scanner freaks like you say ........
I really dislike people that have nothing better to do then pick on ppl the are willing to spend the time and money the make this hobby better for everyone ......
It’s people like you the say crap like this the give this hobby a bad rap …………
