[Scan-DC] Newbie "Jump Start"

Fri, 01 Aug 2003 20:18:27 -0400

Ed,

I fold!

But:

1)  My Lafayette receiver was crummier than your Hallicrafters;

2)  Would you believe our first TV was a Hallicrafters!  I think my parents 
bought it to watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth (II, you dolts!  :) )

1954 or '55, maybe?

Regards,

Doug

Hey, what ever happened to Hallicrafters, anyway?  They made really good 
stuff!

>From: "Ed Tobias" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Newbie "Jump Start"
>Date: 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.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 2:37 PM
>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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