[Scan-DC] Re: Scanner Hobby

[Doug K.]

"Obsolete, but effective."

:)

as Spock once said on Star Trek.

My first one was one of those Lafayette tunables... mid-to-late '60s.  
Before that, I ached for a pair of those old Knight-Kit C-100 
walkie-talkies, 10-4?

A buddy of mine got me scanning... he had an old Link wide-band mobile 
receiver unit that came from the DC fire department - it had been converted 
to work on house current with installation of a simple filament xformer and 
rectifier circuit, and would receive DC (154.19 / KGA-611), Montgomery 
(154.16 / KCG-334), and Arlington (154.13 / KIC-338) all at once!  (Funny, 
you'd think Howard would have come in on 154.25 and 154.22 as well...)

Those were the days...

Same friend informs me that a peek at FCC records shows that Montgomery 
Fire's KGC-334 call sign was cancelled on 20 April 2007!

Squad 51, KMG-365 (look it up!)

:)


>From: al <ald61650 at comcast.net>
>To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [Scan-DC] Re: Scanner Hobby
>Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:17:23 -0400
>
>
>>Larry Van Horn, N5FPW  said:
>>I have been around this hobby for a long time, my first PS radio was a
>>tunable VHF-lo RS.
>
>
>  Man I had one of those ! It was made of that brown bakelite stuff.
>
>I dreamed of owning one for along time when I was a kid ($29.95).
>I had to deliver alot of papers & mow alot of lawns but by god I got one.
>It wasn't worth a hoot but I loved it.
>I'd get a rush when I could hear the local FD hourly time check.
>
>  Yeah...a little bit of difference between that tuneable I had & this 
>996t.
>
>But then that tuneable didn't have "banks" either. :)
>
>  Al
>--
>southern md
>

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