I admit to subscribing to many of the "scanning" magazines, was nice to read actual print. Still have a garage full of Monitoring times and Popular Communications. Great reading material, and many were kept due to interesting articles or something printed that stood out in that specific issue.
Always amazed me what some hobbyists would uncover while reporters, investigators, and others glossed over the real information, not being technical minded enough to notice reality. (I worked for a company that provided emergency communications services for the oil industry, and hurricanes, flood, and man-made issues would often result in hundreds of radio carrying personnel cleaning up waterways and beaches).
Local news would try to listen in to radio traffic, but was always cued into US Coast Guard and their encrypted 800 MHz radios instead of the analog VHF licensed and publicly searchable frequencies in actual use.
Sometimes, I would see a copy of a scanning magazine, or photo copy of a page or two for larger responses (usually a month or two after the event was over with), in newspaper reporters vehicles. They were trying to listen in.
Always amazed me what some hobbyists would uncover while reporters, investigators, and others glossed over the real information, not being technical minded enough to notice reality. (I worked for a company that provided emergency communications services for the oil industry, and hurricanes, flood, and man-made issues would often result in hundreds of radio carrying personnel cleaning up waterways and beaches).
Local news would try to listen in to radio traffic, but was always cued into US Coast Guard and their encrypted 800 MHz radios instead of the analog VHF licensed and publicly searchable frequencies in actual use.
Sometimes, I would see a copy of a scanning magazine, or photo copy of a page or two for larger responses (usually a month or two after the event was over with), in newspaper reporters vehicles. They were trying to listen in.
