[Scan-DC] Citiwide Radio

[Kenneth Fowler]

Oh i've been around long enough to remember the system too. I'm going to have
to put them in my radio again.

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Joel Kahn <jrkahn at att.net> wrote:
> Andy and Doug, you guys have been around long enough to know about CityWide
> radio. It's been running here for more than 20 years, although I think Vito
> (and maybe some old news dogs) are the only ones actively using it now.  I
> was unit 575 (I think) until my King died 10 years ago! The radio system
> used to be associated with Firecomm paging service.
>
>
>
> For a short while before that, we were all active on another paging service
> (I won't mention the name) out of New York, owned by two brothers.  Since I
> had to stop paging because I changed jobs, they got mad at me and when I
> tried to get active as a dispatcher again a few years later, they wouldn't
> return my calls!  Vito and associates also had a falling out with them and
> started Firecomm.
>
>
>
> All water under the bridge, I guess, since the pagers mostly went out in
> favor of SMS texting.
>
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