President Bush In Stillwater

[peterjmag]

I heard from one of my professors that President Bush is comming to Stillwater to speak. I'll bet that will make for a scanning bananza. Mark will you be able to scan to see what you can hear? Thanks...


P.J. Maguire

 

[CommShrek]

I heard from one of my professors that President Bush is comming to Stillwater to speak. I'll bet that will make for a scanning bananza. Mark will you be able to scan to see what you can hear? Thanks...


P.J. Maguire

Whatcha gonna hear besides local units blocking of streets and such and maybe some cops that are sweating their butts off doing perimiter security?

 

[K5MAR]

Planning to bag what I can. Anybody want to loan me a P25 scanner? I'll be on vacation that week, but will be out of town part of the time. Any suggestions on a good recording program?

Mark

 

[K5MAR]

Whatcha gonna hear besides local units blocking of streets and such and maybe some cops that are sweating their butts off doing perimiter security?

Well, if you don't even try, you are sure not to hear a thing! :roll:

When Nixon was here in '74, things were much different. It was expensive, at @ $5 per crystal, but courtesy of a friend on the Tulsa Trib, we had a good list of freqs.

Mark S.

 

[KK5FM]

It was expensive, at @ $5 per crystal, but courtesy of a friend on the Tulsa Trib, we had a good list of freqs.
Mark S.

But the scanner would only hold 10 of them, so you were out $50, right?

 

[car2back]

Bad wreck

EDIT: wrong spot!

 

[K5MAR]

But the scanner would only hold 10 of them, so you were out $50, right?

Actually, I had a Pearce-Simpson 16 channel scanner, so it was $80 for an entire load. And that's in 1974 dollars! Didn't have to buy that many, I already had the state SS and FBI freqs.

Mark S.

 

[CommShrek]

Well, if you don't even try, you are sure not to hear a thing! :roll:

When Nixon was here in '74, things were much different. It was expensive, at @ $5 per crystal, but courtesy of a friend on the Tulsa Trib, we had a good list of freqs.

Mark S.

You're right. It's a good thing I didn't say anything about not trying. :roll: back at ya.

When Nixon was here in '74...LOL..... talk about :roll: and things were different...yeah. Yeah, they sure were, such as I wasn't even born yet for starters, and the list goes on from there.

I don't think you are seriously going to compare the 1974 technology that law enforcement was using to what is being used today are you? That $5 per crystal doesn't even come close on the inflation scale as a comparison to today's communications equipment.

My whole point was that while you might be able to listen to the local agencies that are in the area that are used for extra duties due to President Bush arriving, I don't think you are going to hear the Secret Service details doing thier things.

 

[OkRob]

I listened some the last time Cheney was in Tulsa for his promoting-someone-at-election-time speech, and there wasn't much to hear. A little activity with OHP during the motorcade, but not much else to be heard.

Those in the car with Cheney likely had their own shotguns handy, so it was probably an easy security task for those involved.

- Rob

 

[CommShrek]

What year was that in Rob?

 

[OkRob]

A month or two before the last big election, so it was like in Sept. of 2004 or somewhere near there. He was here doing a speech to pump somebody, don't remember who. I'm not a Cheney fan, or a fan of any of them for that matter, so it didn't register long term.

- Rob

 

[CommShrek]

I'm no fan either, just wondered when that was. At least it was something that happened within my lifetime.

 

[car2back]

What year was that in Rob?

I think it was spring 2004..... I rememer because I was on the bus back to High School from Vo-Tech and we went around a roadblock they had set up on SH75 near 11 north of Tulsa...(crazy bus driver).

Also My Uncle (TFD FF/Paramedic) was called in and was assigned to a ladder company that day just in case they had to rescue Cheney from his hotel window.:lol:

 

[OkRob]

I think it was spring 2004..... I rememer because I was on the bus back to High School from Vo-Tech and we went around a roadblock they had set up on SH75 near 11 north of Tulsa...(crazy bus driver).

Wow, you're still just a pup, Phil! I was in high school probably about the time your dad was in 1st grade.

Also My Uncle (TFD FF/Paramedic) was called in and was assigned to a ladder company that day just in case they had to rescue Cheney from his hotel window.:lol:

May not be the same visit... on the one I remember, he came to town, motorcaded downtown to the some hotel (Mayo maybe?), gave a "vote for this guy speech", had dinner there with his cronies, then motorcaded back to TIA and was outta here. At least that's what was advertised. Maybe that's the same hotel though that they had your uncle ready to rescue him from, so it may have been the same visit. Seems to me like it was much closer to the election though.

- Rob

 

[K5MAR]

Yeah, they sure were, such as I wasn't even born yet for starters, and the list goes on from there.

The only way to avoid growing older is to die young. Your choice. (If you're lucky!)

I don't think you are seriously going to compare the 1974 technology that law enforcement was using to what is being used today are you? That $5 per crystal doesn't even come close on the inflation scale as a comparison to today's communications equipment.

My whole point was that while you might be able to listen to the local agencies that are in the area that are used for extra duties due to President Bush arriving, I don't think you are going to hear the Secret Service details doing thier things.

And you base your opinions on your extensive experience dating back how long?

Mark S.

 

[OkRob]

A quick internet search found this from a September 15, 2004 posting:

[*UPDATE*] Vice-President Dick Cheney will speak in Tulsa on September 24 at a $500-per-person fund-raising event for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Coburn who is running to succeed retiring Sen. Don Nickles (R). An invitation to the event says a $2,000 donation will allow supporters to attend a reception where they can pose for a photograph with Cheney.

So it was September of 2004. My memory isn't so bad for an old guy!

- Rob

 

[car2back]

ok you got me He was here for something else though too earlier on I recall ..... oh well who cares!
At least he didn't shoot anybody while he was in Tulsa! :lol:

 

[K5MAR]

That $5 per crystal doesn't even come close on the inflation scale as a comparison to today's communications equipment.

Try again. Figuring the scanner cost $200 (I think it actually cost more, but we'll use $200 as a nice round number) plus 16 crystals @ $5 apiece = $280.
$280 in 1974 dollars equals $1164.14 in 2005 dollars.
I got the figures for inflation here.

Mark S.

 

[WX5JCH]

I drove in the Motorcade back when Carter came out here to Elk City, in my Ambulance with my partner, and a SS agent in the back. I hear they bring their own EMS nowdays.

 

[OkRob]

A friend of mine was doing the EMS part for a Presidential visit a few years back and they had a bomb sniffing dog checking the vehicles to be used in the motorcade before AF1 landed. The dog started hitting on one of the side compartments on his ambulance, so the Secret Service carefully started checking it out. What'd they find?....... someone had left a sack in the compartment with a couple of doughnuts in it.

- Rob