[Scan-DC] Scanner Hobby 2018

[Doug Kitchener]

Several friends and I all started listening to what was then montgomery county (now mixtusury county) fire calls in the early 1960s... our family moved to a newly-built subdivision out past white oak in silver spring, and one of the other guys whose family moved at the same time had an old Link wide-band VHF mobile receiver from DCFD that had been converted to run on AC... it received DC, Arlington, and mixtusury.  that got us all started.  I wish I'd had one of those uniden xtal receivers that Joel mentioned... they were, and are, good radios!  I have a Sonar FR-105 that I bought at EW down on Sherman Avenue, I'd like to find somebody to fix that thing... the squelch circuit and power supply need work... and it probably could use a new xtal... I don't care what people say, xtals get old and go off frequency.  But that Sonar kicked _ass_ - it was much better than the contemporary Regencies (Regencys?)

DK

      From: Steve <restonham at gmail.com>
 To: Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at yahoo.com> 
 Sent: Sunday, November 4, 2018 12:53 PM
 Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Scanner Hobby 2018
   
Never heard that term -  “fire board radios.”  Because they received fire frequencies or because they were direct AC with no DC transformers?  Never had a fire with one.  I did get some nasty shocks from the large electrolytic capacitors that hadn't fully discharged when working on some of my boat anchors.
Steve, N4EUK
On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 12:21 PM Doug Kitchener via Scan-DC <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

 They were called “fire board radios”  :)
KGC-3..... 34
    On Sunday, November 4, 2018, 10:00:15 AM EST, Joel Kahn <jrkahn at att.net> wrote:  

 Greg (et al):I have been in the hobby almost 20 years longer than you!Back in the day, my first radio was in the car, connected between the car radio & antenna so I could manually tune VHF to hear DC Fire & PD channels or select one of two crystals. You had to mail order a crystal for whatever freq. You wanted and wait 2-3 weeks.  I still have 2 8 channel crystal Unidens.
I agree that the hobby has become more expensive and there is much less to monitor thanks to encryption, but as long as MoCo, PG & DCFD 'stay in the clear' I am going to listen.
I know someone who still enjoys listening to railcar counters & taxi cabs....Jon!
In summary, I agree that while it is not as much fun as it used to be, we still have a viable hobby for now.
JK

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  On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 5:06, Greg Danes

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