There is still a lot of VHF and UHF analoc stuff out there.
Monitor interop frequencies
Monitor other 2m and 70cm ham repeaters
Weather, Airplanes, Marine, Railroad and many other services
A lot of good that will do me. LOL Thanks for the reply. Mighty greatful.
As an old farm boy all I had to do is look out the winder. If the cows were headed to the barn it was either milking time or a storm was coming. The back of the leaves turned and you could see the lighter green on the bottm. If it was cold I would stoke the coal in the furnace and when it was hot we all knew it and went to the crick for a skinny dip. Awe heck. We didn't need no radio weather chanel. We all knew when to come in out of the rain.
Her in SO California I live under the the busiest air way in the world. You can sit out trying to see the stars for all the lights that stretch a hundrend miles in every direction. At 6-8 and 10 PM you can see 10 planes in the sky at any given time. When the airforce was at Norton the radios would come in over the TV's When CB's had boosters and you could hear the truckers going down Highway 10 and up the steepest grade untill you get to Texas.
Heck you don't need to monitor the planes. You can tell where they are going to land and you know where they are coming form just by their direction. Even the airforce for years ran a fleet of plantes a little sout east towards Mexico. At 10 pm you could lay on the sofa and see them come about 5 or so minuets apart.
The old Fly Boys told me what it was back then but I have long forgotten. Monitor them, Shuckens. It is more fun to watch.
I have a sail boat with all the radios but a lot of good it will do me to monitor a marine chanel living the the desert. The largest mist we get is sand form the Santa Anna Winds. The only waves we get are form the earthqukes. I take my little sail boat out to lake Paris but the park has not had a marine radio service in 20 years. I recken that I might use it if I had it in hand when I fall in a cravas in one of these shakes.
I can't call for help when we are on fire so I will sit out the shak and bake season that is 24/6 385 days a year.
I live in Frankfort Indian on the farm. The town was a railroad hub with a round house that was there when I was small. That was in the first half of the last century. They even took out the main line though the farm that went to ST Louis. In California they took out the old train yard in San Bernardino. The 17 miles of track and the east coast largest rail yard is 12 miles to the west or more of me. It is in Fontania and runs to Ontario.
They did away with that little red car at the end of the train. I don't think there is much to monitor. I can hear the whistles blow when the trains go through the back valley going east on the main line. My grandpa who owned the farm I now have was an Engineer in 1900 on the Nickle plate. He went to the worlds fair in Paris in 1900 and was born in 1876. He fought in the Spanish american war. I heard his stories as a small boy but wished I had listened a little better and stayed awake.
Nope. I don't think there is going to be much to monitor with this oldie. I have TV's that go back to the early 60's that still work. Don't ask. The farm house is huge. and I save everthing. One bedroom is 32 foot long.
Times are a changing and I need to join the 20th century and we are here in the twenty first century. My soul was old before its time and I have not aged like a fine bottle of wine. I am getting mighty forgetful and I ain't even really old yet.
I am glad to know it is still good for something if you are on the dotted line. LOL
If anyone wants this old radio they can have it for the price of shipping. I'll even leve in the new battries.
Just drop me a line and send your cash. An extra penny for my piggie bank would be nice.
Regards
Richard.
