Here is where it all started... How about you?

[lindsay34654]

Like most. I started with my grandmothers Grundig short wave radio in the late 50's that also had a police band. From there I went to the small black RS box for $9.95 that you plug into an am radio that you also had to plug in a crystal for the area you wanted to monitor then dial in the radio in the middle 60's when I also got into CB like everyone else. I think I must have had every regency model they made and several portables (crystal control). I also had a model that you had punch out cards that you had to slide into the radio. I now am into Ham and have a uniden 396 xt 996 xt and HP1

 

[kennyblues]

Probably around 1969 with a Realistic Patrolman portable low band receiver to receive the local Police and Fire. Like NYRHKY94 with paper route money.
The advertisement from the 1968 Radio Shack Catalog says;
"Only an informed public can think clearly, can react safely and in time"
My oh my have times changed

 

[57Bill]

I started listening to "hams" in the late '50's on an old 3-band shortwave receiver (one band being regular long wave AM). Did a little AM DXing back then, too. During the race riots of the late 60's, I borrowed a tunable Lafayette communications receiver from a friend to monitor the action. Got my own tunable 4-band portable that Christmas. Purchased my first real scanner - a 10 channel cyrstal controlled set by Hy-Gain (still have it) in 1975. Then a steady progression of Regency, Radio Shack, Bearcat, and AOR, etc. I did find it all more enjoyable in the old days.

 

[emd001]

I have an uncle who has always been into electronics and when I was young, probably around kindergarden he brought this scanner to the house with a punch card already setup for where I was living. Been hooked ever since. RadioPics Database - Other Radio Scanners - Sears <u>61</u>3639 I dont know if it was the sears model but it looked like that, but I only remember it having 10 or 12 frequencies.

 

[kayn1n32008]

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Got hooked on radio back when I was around 10 or so atField Day at a park near where I grew up, passed my Basic late July/Early August 1993 and have never looked back. I did not start monitoring First responders untill after I get my first radio, ann IC-2SAT, then I was able to listen to RCMP(139MHz), BCAS(142MHz &149MHz) and local fire(155Mhz). It is way more complicated now a days.