The first programable I ever saw and owned was a Regency 10 channels and it
was programmed by pluging special combs into each channel.
You had a chart to tell you what tooth or teeth to brake off to get it on a
given frequency.
We've come a long way since then!
73
Lowell W8QIY
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From: "Russ Kiehne" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: off topic, question about older receiver
>I think the first programable scanner was the Bearcat bc101. I had one of
> them. It was in the 70's.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 11:44 AM
> Subject: Re: off topic, question about older receiver
>
>
>> 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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