and an old Nextel Motorola push-to-talk phone? There was a brief time where that annoying chrip could be heard in restaurants, offices, classrooms, etc.
Scanners On TV
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They blew their entire budget on the 200. Found the Bearcat curbside in the trash from a yard sale.
Decided to rewatch Under The Dome and noticed a Pro-16 at the radio station and what looked like BCT15X in Big Jim Rennie's Tahoe. Unfortunately Paramount+ won't let you take a screenshot so no pics.
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I like the pirate radio guy episode of bones where someone was using a CB frequency as well with a OTA tv antenna on the roof.
Not to get too far off topic, I know there is a news channel in Houston (youtube) where they broadcast this and show them stringing. iirc, its affiliated with other larger cities as well. (Can look it up later if anyone is interested)
Another to mention to watch for scanners: Shot in the Dark on Netflix. They follow Loudlabs and RMG News (stringer companies).
At 19:39 In this episode of COPS that aired in 2004, a suspect is arrested while in possession of a scanner.
The third season of The Rockford Files depicted a "Police Buff/Groupie" who had scanners in her car, bedroom, and at her bowling alley job!
Episode aired Mar 11, 1977
Episode aired Mar 11, 1977
rf_patriot200
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WOW! I found one of those in a used car I bought, but sadly the board had gotten wet % corroded. They made several models of strange cb's and scanners. Company was Swedish I think.
Ubbe
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I have a 007 scanner still on my bedside table, only for nostalgic reasons as it was my first scanner I bough in the 70's. I retuned the FM radio to go down to 85Mhz and listened to our local commute buses and then retuned in the other direction and listened to aircrafts at 118MHz. I could modify the scan rate to go 4 times quicker and the channel indicators where then almost constantly lit but still stopped on conversations.
There where also too much leakage from the oscillator section that created image frequencies for the crystal channels so I soldered a piece of tincan metal to shield off the oscillator from the IF section.
It was a company in Gothenburg who imported scanners and CB's from Japan and had their own design and always an orange front.
The scanner was $100 and crystals $5 and I was still in school so took a job to deliver leaflets to mailboxes in several areas to get some extra money to pay for it. I made my own low-vhf GP antenna from copper tubing installed to the chimney that worked really well. It was a low-vhf and hi-vhf band scanner and all public safety where on the vhf-low band but one channel for the subway police where on hi-vhf as they where using the subway trains radiosystem. When the trains used the radio they had a CTCSS tone and when the police used the system it was without a CTCCS tone so that the trains would not hear the police conversations and got a busy indicator on their radio. The 007 scanner doesn't have any CTCCS tone capability so I had to listen to a lot of subway train chatter if that channel was selected to scan.
/Ubbe
There where also too much leakage from the oscillator section that created image frequencies for the crystal channels so I soldered a piece of tincan metal to shield off the oscillator from the IF section.
It was a company in Gothenburg who imported scanners and CB's from Japan and had their own design and always an orange front.
The scanner was $100 and crystals $5 and I was still in school so took a job to deliver leaflets to mailboxes in several areas to get some extra money to pay for it. I made my own low-vhf GP antenna from copper tubing installed to the chimney that worked really well. It was a low-vhf and hi-vhf band scanner and all public safety where on the vhf-low band but one channel for the subway police where on hi-vhf as they where using the subway trains radiosystem. When the trains used the radio they had a CTCSS tone and when the police used the system it was without a CTCCS tone so that the trains would not hear the police conversations and got a busy indicator on their radio. The 007 scanner doesn't have any CTCCS tone capability so I had to listen to a lot of subway train chatter if that channel was selected to scan.
/Ubbe
In Season 11 Episode 23 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a police impersonator is seen with many police accoutrements, probably including a scanner.
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Is that the one with the kid cop? I remember Munch grabbing a motorola mobile sitting on the desk with a mic and nothing hooked up ha. He had a working NYPD radio too to call in when he was pursuing that suspect
Look like a RS Pro-92?
I concur.
Great stuff regarding the orange scanner from The Rockford Files! The details posted here enabled me to find it online: handic 007.
I remembered another episode from the fourth season, but upon further review, the radio wasn't simply a scanner.
Episode aired Feb 24, 1978
I remembered another episode from the fourth season, but upon further review, the radio wasn't simply a scanner.
Episode aired Feb 24, 1978
wtp
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remember to set the squelch to 2 !!
I believe it's this episode.
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Blondie Once Said To Call Her But Never Answerd
Shamefully, I have yet to watch this show. I simply don't want much TV anymore let alone the news either. Sounds like a very good show though and to read many of the TV crew were inspired to get their license is interesting.
