[Scan-DC] Newbie "Jump Start"

Fri, 1 Aug 2003 14:53:46 -0400

I'll see you, and raise you.  First VHF receiver was a Hallicrafters, S-95,
tunable.  Bought it in 1960.  Used it to listen to NYPD and FDNY.  Though
NYPD is up on the 450 mHz range now, you can still hear FDNY on the same
frequencies: 154.25 (Manhattan), 154.43 (Citywide), etc.
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Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Newbie "Jump Start"


>
>
> On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:30:03 -0400 "Doug K." <[email protected]>
> writes:
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: [email protected]
> > >To: [email protected]
> > >Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Newbie "Jump Start"
> > >Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:46:05 -0400
> >
> > (snip!)
> >
> > >
> > >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.
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