[Scan-DC] ///////RCMA scanner journal

[Larry Van Horn, N5FPW]

Ah, the good old days. I was just a young pup in the Navy (1975) when I 
attended my first SoCal RCMA get together, a weekend campout meeting in the 
mountains north od SD between the San Diego and Los Angeles RCMA chapters. 
Me and three others represented San Diego. I was proud to be a member of the 
RCMA long before others even figured out it was cool. Many many stories I 
could tell ya. ;-)

The RCMA was disestablished several years due to monetary problems, and amid 
a bit of a scandal with a small west coast commercial radio hobby magazine. 
It was a big mess. Quite a few of the old RCMA hierarchy has now passed 
away.

Print publication type radio clubs are pretty much going the way of the ball 
and musket thanks to the net. Eyeball meetings and hobby information now 
passed via the internet on list such as this.  There are a precious few 
places left such as CARMA (in Chicago), some small groups in Socal, and the 
annual Scan Scum gathering at Winterfest in PA, but as a whole the scanner 
hobby has never been good at supporting face to face meeting and large get 
togethers.

As for the DC area, I am not aware of any meetings. They have never sent 
anything to us for print in MT.

73 de Larry

Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
Former RCMA Satellite Columnist
MT Milcom/Help Desk Columnist
Assistant Editor Monitoring Times



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <b_thom at juno.com>
To: <sierraechoradio at yahoo.com>; <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] ///////RCMA scanner journal


>
>
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 14:00:12 -0800 (PST) Enrique Paz
> <sierraechoradio at yahoo.com> writes:
>> Henry L. Eisenson's book Scanners
>> and Secret Frequencies. I know it's a cheesy title but
>> a good book. In it he mentions RCMA's Scanner Journal.
>> I searched for both phrases and found nothing current
>> online.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&q=rcma+radio+communi
> cations+monitoring+association&spell=1
>
> http://tinyurl.com/adl9u
>
> Radio Communications Monitoring Association (RCMA) Established in 1975 as
> the "The First National and International Organization of Monitor Radio
> Listeners"
>
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