What was your first scanner model?

What was your first scanner model?

  • ICOM

    Votes: 2 0.9%
  • Radio Shack

    Votes: 100 44.6%
  • GRE

    Votes: 1 0.4%
  • Uniden

    Votes: 59 26.3%
  • AOR

    Votes: 1 0.4%
  • Other

    Votes: 61 27.2%

  • Total voters
    224
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cistercian

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My first scanner was a 16 channel BC-100 bearcat by electra.It was fantastic for searching out new stuff...but it was not very loud.Plugging a horn style speaker into it made it sound like the police car was in my room!
I never got a crystal scanner...I did not want to buy crystals!!!

I got mine after a friend got one and I remember telling him...."you know what this means?soon there will be computer driven scanners and intercept receivers that will do all the work for you!!!" I was very excited at the time...

It took longer to arrive than I expected....at least in affordable rigs.

I still remember search,limit,hold!!!!
 

kibler

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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!
 
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popeye9941

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Regency Monitor Radio 10 channel scanner, used 10 crystals. Ist scanner invented around late 60s. Crystals were around $5 each.
 
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popeye9941

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I also got the Bearcat 8 channel scanner too. It scanned a little faster than the regency. I was a firefighter at the time, and me and my friends were really into scanners. Used to go to fires in neighboring communities.
 

LEH

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First scanner

I do not recall the model, but my first true scanner was a Midland 4 channel VHF handheld. I got it on sale for a mismarked price of $19.95 in probably 1973. I still have it somewhere though I have not used it in ages.
 

greggk

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1972 Regency "Monitor Radio / Executive Scanner" as displayed on the front. Eight red lights and 8 crystal slots. It picked up everything possible in York and York County PA. The radio still sits next to me as I type, just not working now until I get some new crystals for it. Unbelievably, it still scans and ALL 8 lights still work.
 

NC1

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Montgomery Ward 846A (portable). It was VHF Hi/Low, and had 4 channels available for crystals.

Scanning was about 8ch per second, and it was powered by 4 AA batteries.

That must have been around 1978, give or take a year or two.
 
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