End of an Era

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Thanks, Gene, for all the help you gave to the hobby.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69133,00.html

Now that everything’s going APCO25, radio scanning as a hobby is headed for death. Incidentally, so is citizen monitoring of public safety transmissions, which has been part of the open tradition of American radio my whole life.

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  1. Hmm maytbe there it was poular, but here Police Call didn’t sell much. Radio shack would even give you a print out of all the local frequencies for free. Being a rural area, with < 50 channel scanner you were set.

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