You Know You are Old Scanner Listener When.....

[graywoulf]

I still have two Realistic Pro 43 scanners and still use one of them. The "Hyperscan" feature was the thing that caught my eye. The first one I bought was at a pawn shop and it had all of the mods already in place. I wish I could still get parts for them.

As far as the RS "Beyond Police Call" books go, I had them all. I wish that I could find a comprehensive listing like that online. I recently discovered "InterceptRadio.com" online and it has a lot of information but it is all mixed together and hard to use and I can't find things like Burger King or Bojangle's drive through frequencies. Maybe someday I will find these and other frequencies that were just fun to scan.

 

[trentbob]

I bought a PRO-2 in 1969 with a 45.98 crystal for New Britain (CT) PD. That was almost 2 weeks' salary if I remember correctly!

Yep I still have my Pro 1, remember how big those two crystals were. Never saw a huge crystals like that before.

 

[krokus]

My dad was on the fire depatment, and a Regency, Wilson, & NEC Pager dealer, so we had various radios around. The Whamo-10, with the synthesizer, was the first "programmable" one. An early model Bearcat 2xx was the first fully programmable model we had.

Years later, I bought a Pro-39, while on leave. I took that to Korea, then Hawaii, and got to hear some interesting things.

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[dwh367]

You know you an old scanner listener when your frequency directories looked like this.

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[graywoulf]

Wow! And you had your own microfiche reader just for your frequency directories?

 

[trentbob]

I still have my Betty Bearcat books in the garage with my crb research guides and police calls.

 

[dwh367]

Wow! And you had your own microfiche reader just for your frequency directories?

I took them to the library back then and used their's.

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[kruser]

I took them to the library back then and used their's.

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I still have the 5.25 inch floppies that Grove sent. There was also Percon but I forget what media or method they used to supply the data. I used them before however.

 

[graywoulf]

I still have the 5.25 inch floppies that Grove sent. There was also Percon but I forget what media or method they used to supply the data. I used them before however.

I wish that Grove was still around. They were the only place I could get parts for my Realistic Pro 43 scanner.

 

[6079smithw]

I still have the 5.25 inch floppies that Grove sent. There was also Percon but I forget what media or method they used to supply the data. I used them before however.

I ordered microfiche thru Percon back in the 70's. If I recall, there were 8 sets that covered the entire country and they were a little pricey.

 

[trentbob]

I also still have all of the Scanner Master guides for my area and both editions of the big thick book for the country. They were great.

 

[KmanOz]

The acronym (name of the product as well) JIL means something to you.

 

[trentbob]

The acronym (name of the product as well) JIL means something to you.

You know you're an old scanner listener when it immediately came to my head, sx200 and sx400.

So much stuff in our brains we never use.

 

[zz0468]

I still have the 5.25 inch floppies that Grove sent. There was also Percon but I forget what media or method they used to supply the data. I used them before however.

Percon used CDs to distribute, at least in the 90s. It may have been hard copy printouts before that.

I still use the 1996 Percon list because the historical data regarding sites is still useful. If I run into an older tower site and want to know who built it, and what it was for, I can frequently find it.

 

[Bob1955]

You know you an old scanner listener when your frequency directories looked like this.

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I remember those days BIG TIME! That "Betty Bearcat" book.
Hope you had a good Easter.

 

[dwh367]

I remember those days BIG TIME! That "Betty Bearcat" book.
Hope you had a good Easter.

Thanks. Hope you had a good Easter as well.

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[krokus]

I still use the 1996 Percon list because the historical data regarding sites is still useful. If I run into an older tower site and want to know who built it, and what it was for, I can frequently find it.

I use the FCC databases for that, starting with a lat/long from Google Maps.

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[zz0468]

I use the FCC databases for that, starting with a lat/long from Google Maps.

That's useful for current or near recent licenses, but doesn't necessarily cover far enough back. It's like having an old copy of the Amateur's Call book. Remember those? Sometimes it's interesting to see what used to be there.

 

[krokus]

That's useful for current or near recent licenses, but doesn't necessarily cover far enough back. It's like having an old copy of the Amateur's Call book. Remember those? Sometimes it's interesting to see what used to be there.

Ah. I thought you meant for current info.

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[n1das]

You know you are an old time scanner listener when you remember or used the GE Searcher manually tuneable scanners. A GE Searcher scanner was set up and operated like a crystal scanner. Each channel had its own tuning knob to manually adjust the receive frequency for each channel. I don't know how well they worked but I've seen a few of them.



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