Belive it or not???
Hello..........Well! my first scanner was my old, second hand, first color television which caught my attention way back about 1970? One evening I was messing with the "Flat Lead" antenna wire from my outside antenna setup, that was about 40 feet high, trying to best position it to get a watchable picture, the "SNOWY picture" was pretty bad? Back then we only had two TV stations in my area one of which was a new UHF station! Well! as I was going through my routine of positioning the "Flat Lead" wire to try to improve the SNOW reception, all at once I started hearing something through my Television speakers and the picture would have these intermittent wiggly lines on it???,,,As I continued to listen to this stream of radio noise, I determined it was many, many Public Safety towns in Eastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas! Wow! I was totally amazed???,,,when they were not all talking at the same time, these police channels were coming in as clear as a bell, as far away as 80 miles! I just said to myself, "to heck with the TV channel and I just listened to the stream of Police the rest of the night. Was this a temporary Phenomenon????....No! I could always find the correct position of the wire for the next several months and hear all the police I could stand! Sooner or later I just could not stand it any longer and saved up enough cash and bought a brand new 10 channel Regency Radio-monitor just like the one in POST #201 of this page, I was so excited?? my first of many police scanners! The end!