SOmething like that, my grandfather had a 16 channel that he got in 1983.
Weather on 162.55 was automatically in CH 14.  When you removed the
battery away went whatever you had programmed.





On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Russ Kiehne wrote:

> I think the first programable scanner was the Bearcat bc101.  I had one of
> them.  It was in the 70's.
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> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 11:44 AM
> Subject: Re: off topic, question about older receiver
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>
> > That sounds like a nice radio for the day, as many public services were
> > not trunked then, and were mainly VHF/UHF.  When did the first
> > programmable receivers come on the market?  I konw for scanners it was the
> > late 70's.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Steve Forst wrote:
> >
> >> Somebody gave me one of these a few years ago that he picked up at a flea
> >> market for  less than $5.  It's seen better days, but still plays quite
> >> well.  One of the later Trans-oceani'sc from the '70's.  11 bands
> >> including
> >> AM, FM, longwave, 1 VHF band that covers  the weather band  and a little
> >> more, and 7 shortwave bands that  go up to somewhere around 22 mhz.
> >>
> >> Has knobs for volume, tone, rf gain, and b.f.o.   Also a switch for
> >> wide/narrow bandwidth.    The fm drifts a little, but what do you want
> >> for
> >> nothing?
> >>
> >> Don't use it often, but have it set up with power poles on a piece of zip
> >> cord to the battery compartment so I could  run off the big  battery in
> >> case
> >> of  power outage.
> >>
> >> 73, Steve KW3A
> >>
> >
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