Pro-52 or 53 is my guess.It was an Realistic.. Box scanner with screw in antenna on top. I am so now going to have to google for pics lol...
Pro-52 or 53 is my guess.It was an Realistic.. Box scanner with screw in antenna on top. I am so now going to have to google for pics lol...
Sorry for reviving an old thread, but I couldn't help myself...
As I sit here at home on Christmas Eve (family all has the flu so I'm doing the holiday solo this year) I reflect on other Christmas Eves years ago when one might as well have turned the scanner off by 9:00 PM because there was little activity other than station identifications. People, in this relatively sleepy part of the country at least, by and large went home and went to bed to rest up for the rigors of the holiday. Of course around 10:00 PM there would be the inevitable "observe for an unidentified flying object in the shape of a sleigh pulled by reindeer" dispatch, which was usually worth staying up to hear. Not so now. It's midnight and things are still very active. Apparently nowadays folks think the holiday is a good time to get into fights, have domestic disputes, go otherwise do harm to themselves, start fires, get into accidents, and steal things. Not a real great reflection on the state of our society.
But good news for us insomniac scanner junkies, I suppose...
Happy Holidays to everyone here on RR! :wink:
Our local PD & Sheriff's Dept both had Santa's sleigh's license plates ran tonight. It was a nice touch. And of course St Louis is getting riled up again.
So true on the on-air holiday well-wishes. Was fairly common practice up here too, I haven't been up at midnight in a long time so usually miss itBut good to hear it is still practiced elsewhere too.
Wow can't believe it has been over 25yrs and my Pro-2005 still works. Display backlight not working, keep saying I need to fix it. DOS was so much fun! I still also have a 386 machine that I ran the HB-232 interface with.
73 and Merry Christmas
As a kid in the early 70,s in Anchorage Alaska my neighbor let me listen to his Bearcat scanner, I have been hooked ever since. I moved to California and became a big fan of the CHP. Low band was so cool.
Only 90 miles? I am picking them up from "mountain top" to "mountain top". Listening to North White, Golden Gate Ruby, Sacramento Gray (Tahoe area), and Central Orange no problem. Plus all the channels in between.I love the low band. I can pick up CHP 90 miles away.