Vintage Bearcat Scanners

[GKolo]

Are there any decent sites that give info on the old crystal controled scanners ?
I have a collection of several and wanted info on them, Even have my Great Grand Parents scanner that we would sit in the livingroom and listen to after dinner when i was a kid, I know its atleast 40 years old.


Thanks

 

[bkantor]

You can find information and pictures of some of the old radios on eham.net in the reviews section

eHam.net Reviews - Receivers: Scanners

Another source of pictures is http://radiopics.com/

 

[GKolo]

Going to go look now.

 

[GKolo]

Bearcats

This is what i have so far and a Mcdonald scanner i have never heard of.

 

[doctordialtone]

Vintage Cats

I had a similar collection, except my girlfriend had brown hair.

It was an 8 channel TMR 8. Regency/Bearcat Lo band / Hi band.

I upgraded - to a Blonde.

I forget what happened to the radio.

 

[scanchs]

Not Bearcats

I hate to be the "bearer" of bad news (pun intended), but none of those are Bearcat scanners. Regency used the name Monitoradio for it's products, while Electra used the name Bearcat. Regency was a competitor of Electra who was the original maker of Bearcat scanners before Uniden bought the rights to the Bearcat name. I have owned both Electra Bearcats and Regency Monitoradios, and they were both good scanners at the time.

ScanCHS

 

[KB5ILY]

My old Bearcat III (like the one in my signature below) is sitting across the room from me scanning away.

 

[GKolo]

I guess it should say vintage Regency scanners.
Still looking for about when they were made.

 

[KR4BD]

I guess it should say vintage Regency scanners.
Still looking for about when they were made.

I have one that looks like the black faced model in the center-bottom of your photo. There were several identical looking versions depending on the band they covered. Mine is a TMR-8H. I bought it in 1971 or 72 while living in Indianapolis (which is where Regency was located at the time). The 8H model covered 150-174 MHZ. There were also these identical looking models: TMR-8L (30-50 MHZ) and TMR-8U (450-470 MHZ). Each of these had 8 crystal slots. These were solidly built radios. I still have mine and it still works....but with narrowbanding, digital, trunking, etc,, it's days of usefullness are now, surely numbered.

 

[GKolo]

I dont even have the power cords on them right now, The blue faced was my Grand Parents, So i will own that one forever.
I will end up getting crystals some day and making them work for here.

 

[RDGDigital]

This site has quite a few: RadioPics Database - Main

I found this one there: RadioPics Database - Regency - TMR 8H