[TrunkCom] Police Call 2003

Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:53:18 -0500

I was able to pick one up at our local "RadioShaq" on Monday, Volume 3 & 4 
combined (Catalog Number: 62-250). This edition is great!

When I went to RadioShack I was questioned by the shaq droid if I needed 
help, but after I gave him the third degree about the lack of a paper 
catalog or even the availability of a CD-ROM he told me that it cost 
RadioShack millions of dollars to print those catalogs, and they didn't 
know if they had decided what to do about the next one, or if they would 
even have the full catalog online. I could hear Arnold Schwarzenegger in my 
mind saying "Big mistake". Then I realized the droid must have gotten that 
question a few times before because he turned on his cloaking device and 
quickly vanished with a wooshing sound. So I went into Leonard Nimoy mode 
and went "in search of" a Police Call CD-ROM only to find one orange 
covered one from last year in the bottom of a glass case with the 
imprisoned base and handheld scanners. I went on to look at the book 
section when I discovered a paperback that I thought would be an older 
vintage Police Call, but something was just a little different about this 
one. It looked like it was super-sized at Mickey-D's. Then I remembered the 
Pontiac Grand-Pre commercial that "wider IS better". I pulled it off the 
shelf and to my surprise it was a 2003 Police Call in paperback! Just as 
the older editions have been pre-CD ROM, but with a twist. It says on the 
cover includes "Plus" that was originally introduced a few years ago as a 
separate paper edition. A large red spot on the cover also says "includes 
the Police Call National CD-ROM (it's inside the back cover). WOW! Bonus!! 
Just like those days of getting the secret spy decoder ring (you know, the 
enigma one that decoded those Spanish 5 number groups on HF) in the bottom 
of the cereal box. Also, reading in the instructions, it includes Pozilla 
software to load the RadioShack PRO-2052 Dual-Trunking Scanner (Catalog 
Number: 20-432) with frequencies from the DBF file via CD-ROM. Great 40th 
anniversary edition!

FYI, If you happen to have a problem running the Police Call CD-ROM there 
is a patch for the "Invalid Path or file name" error when entering the 
security word on the Pozilla web site: http://www.pozillasoft.com/index2.htm

I always enjoyed looking forward to the latest edition in paperback. I hope 
they continue to publish it this way. Nothing like a paper copy to 
highlight and take along on the road or to the "library".

I also see it is edited by our very own Scanner Master, Richard Barnett! By 
the way Rich, I read your comments about no scanner yet available for 
Digital, glad to see you, Terry Brennan and Greg Knox had a hand in finally 
getting the Digitracker to happen. Here in the midwest and especially in 
Indiana (SAFE-T) the Digital systems are just getting established, so the 
Uniden BC250D and BC785D were just in time for the Genesis of digital.

Interesting that the cover is the older green unlike the cover shown on the 
RadioShack.com online "catalog".
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&category%5Fname=CTLG%5F007%5F030%5F002%5F000&product%5Fid=62%2D2520

Much of the general scanner guide in the front of the Police Call has been 
updated and is full of helpful information.
As always, they still need  any inside information from scanner hobbyists 
including the new digital systems coming online and talk group 
identification from new and existing trunking systems.

Thanks again for publishing it, Gene Hughes! I look forward to the next 
edition.

Links for those in want:
http://www.policecall.com/
http://www.scannermaster.com/
http://www.pozillasoft.com/
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&category%5Fname=CTLG%5F001%5F002%5F007%5F000&product%5Fid=20%2D432

73's and Happy Scanning!
Dave K9DV

At 01:10 PM 2/5/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Anyone know when this will be in the RS stores?
>
>Thanks
>Chris
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