• To anyone looking to acquire commercial radio programming software:

    Please do not make requests for copies of radio programming software which is sold (or was sold) by the manufacturer for any monetary value. All requests will be deleted and a forum infraction issued. Making a request such as this is attempting to engage in software piracy and this forum cannot be involved or associated with this activity. The same goes for any private transaction via Private Message. Even if you attempt to engage in this activity in PM's we will still enforce the forum rules. Your PM's are not private and the administration has the right to read them if there's a hint to criminal activity.

    If you are having trouble legally obtaining software please state so. We do not want any hurt feelings when your vague post is mistaken for a free request. It is YOUR responsibility to properly word your request.

    To obtain Motorola software see the Sticky in the Motorola forum.

    The various other vendors often permit their dealers to sell the software online (i.e., Kenwood). Please use Google or some other search engine to find a dealer that sells the software. Typically each series or individual radio requires its own software package. Often the Kenwood software is less than $100 so don't be a cheapskate; just purchase it.

    For M/A Com/Harris/GE, etc: there are two software packages that program all current and past radios. One package is for conventional programming and the other for trunked programming. The trunked package is in upwards of $2,500. The conventional package is more reasonable though is still several hundred dollars. The benefit is you do not need multiple versions for each radio (unlike Motorola).

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Yours truly just scored an amazing classic beam antenna!

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russellmaher

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WOW!! What a score on your part, and this goes to show that persistence can pay off.

The video shows what you're getting into and I hope you're able to continue with the video as the project progresses. I'm dying to see the end results.

Congratulations!

Russell
 

FPR1981

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I am gonna take a handheld and SO-239 adapter up this weekend and I am gonna talk on it from its original site one last time. It hasn't been used for almost 30 years.

If the SWR is dangerously high then so be it. I'll happily smoke a handheld to do this, lol.

The original owner was a REACT (channel 9) volunteer dispatcher. He was disabled after his military time and wanted to continue helping his community. This antenna has probably saved lives.

I am going to do a tribute to the original owner, which will be recorded on a nearby station and then a video uploaded and sent to the family.
 

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Today is a great day.

Since 1995, I've been after a fully-intact Antenna Specialists Super Scanner beam. I first spoke to the old woman who owned the house in 1995, and at the time she wasn't ready to part with them, as her husband who used them had just died. Years later, probably in 2008, I stopped and she said I could have them if I could find someone to take them down. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any help, life got busy and I forgot.

One day I thought of it, and I drove back down the road. It's tucked away at the end of a cul de sac. Fully expecting them to be gone, my heart raced as I caught a glimpse. They were still there.

Before deciding to stop, I had a feeling the old woman was probably deceased. I checked the local obituary records, and sure enough, she died in 2016. Figuring her family might still own the house, I checked the property records through the county auditor. Turns out, the family had just sold the house last year.

Was I a day late and dollar short? Something told me no. I didn't have this antenna in my sights since 1995 for nothing. I am destined to own this thing, right?!

So I see the name of who owns the house, and I take to Facebook Messenger.

Success! Right?

I wrote her a very nice message, explaining everything. I told her who I was, and what I did for a living, figuring she might think I was a creeper.

Weeks went by and nothing. She hadn't read the message.

Dammit, surely she will read it eventually.

Next, I stalked her page, and saw where she worked. Lo and behold, I know several people who work there! Working my contacts, someone got me her cell phone number. A week ago, I sent her a text. Within an hour, I got a response.

"Let me think about it and get back to you."

Ack!!!

Think about what? An old rusty tower on your nice brick ranch style house? The kind of thing most people with no interest in radio would happily have taken down and hauled away!

Think positive, A.T. (my name). Think positive.

This morning my text message inbox lights up, and it's her!

"You can have it, especially if Mrs. Jennings said you could. Would your guy take the antenna on the other side down while here? Let me know when you plan on removing it. Thanks!"

BOOM!

SCORE!

YES!

Something told me not long ago that if I saw a control box for a Super Scanner on eBay to snag it up, whether I had the antenna or not. So I did. That must have been the good karma I needed, because it will be put to use.

I'm so excited.

I plan to disassemble and do some maintenance to it. I figure I'll clean the hardware and maybe but some new stainless screws and such. Any suggestions for what I should do to make sure it can stand another 40 years?

Congrats on your find...
 

FPR1981

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And, call me the luckiest SOB alive when it comes to CB equipment, because I just scored a second Super Scanner that is missing a bottom element, but otherwise complete. That's a simple fix to recreate, and I have two control boxes.
 

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Un installation of Super Scanner is going down now!

 

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Top: Super Scanner element that I worker on to remove oxidization.

Bottom: Untouched element
 

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