Bay Area Scanners Club
Thank you for remembering the Bay Area Scanners Club, yes indeed I was President for awhile, even wrote the newsletter in the late 1970's. I think Ed Tobiasz followed in one or both of those capacities. I was involved even before I open Monitor Control in the Spring of 1980 Glenn moved Scanners Unlimited right next door and we even exchanged crystals needed for our customers in the back alley off Greenwood and Laurel in San Bruno. I moved Monitor Control to El Camino Real near the Tanforan Shopping Center to be closer to my home in August of 1980, then operated it only part-time for the next 10 years after I was hired as a San Francisco PD Dispatcher. Long story short in 1981 a SF Sheriffis Deputy encouraged me to do so, even brought me the application papers, then turned them in for me. I was hired within weeks and only retired in June of 2012 after 31 years. By that time we were dispatch all branches of San Francisco Emergency service, Police, Fire, Ambulance and eventually the Sheriff's Department itself which never had it's own dispatch service until them. Isn't it ironic, maybe that Deputy knew something well before it's time.
Gary J. Mondfrans, was D#73 at SFPD
P.S. I love RadioReferrance and the ScannerRadio app. on my EVO. Wish the Lake County (Cal.) SO/Law Enforcement were present along with Lake County (Cal.) Fire.