[Scan-DC] Newbie "Jump Start"

[b_thom@juno.com]

On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:30:03 -0400 "Doug K." <oldsdoug@hotmail.com>
writes:
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> >From: b_thom@juno.com
> >To: Scan-DC@mailman.qth.net
> >Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Newbie "Jump Start"
> >Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:46:05 -0400
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> (snip!)
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> >I could only dream of having 8 channels in my first scanner.
> 
> Scanner?  What's a "scanner"?  :)  At the risk of displaying my age, 
> my 
> first "scanner" was one of those old tunable receivers from the 
> Lafayette 
> store over in Queens Chapel - anybody here remember those days?

Absolutely. In the early 70s, RS had a handheld tunable radio that some
friends used for railroad listening. I never got around to buying one. My
closest Lafayette was at Parkington, now known as Ballston Commons.

> First xtal-controlled rcvr was (is! - I still have it, need to 
> rebuild the 
> power supply...) an old Sonar FR-105, has 6 channels.  Best VHF 
> radio I ever 
> had.

Funny you should mention that. My first scanner, a four-channel
Montgomery Ward 856 made by Sharp, can "outpull" just about every other
scanner I have. I have only railroad crystals for it, so I can't comment
on how well it does on other frequencies.