Saw 8" floppies used in Zendex computers in the early 1980's- half meg computers- good for word processing by transcribers-those monsters cost $20,000 each. An Atari 520 ST a few years later was more

My experience with Uniden repair, is that they do top-notch work at reasonable prices. The turnover was fast when I used them. Call and talk to them.

I like that shop...got my 245 and 246t there....might have met UPman, but didn't know him. He gave good info, but never wasted words.

Here, here. God rest his soul.

All that, Joe, plus the LEO's have much more sophisticated equipment to investigate and plan raids with, such as the "stingray", which can monitor every cellphone in a given area. When they move in, t

Neither.

That's also why my city's PD has been under federal purview for several years running. They were dirty, covered up for each other and they got caught time after time.

One story for you: These California police officers were charged with brutalizing loved ones. So why are so many still carrying a gun? ....and that's just California. These California police officers

I wish you would have talked to my city before they dumped their Johnson Edacs radios for P25 Motorola equipment, spending $20 million to start, then another $20 million to make the new radios finally

Did you know that Tom Knietel was the son of Seymour Kneitel, and Seymour Kneitel was the animator of "Casper the Friendly Ghost"? At this stage of the game, my old scanners are friendly ghosts, and m

Not "nuff said"; read the recent news about police offices- hundreds of them- convicted of terrible crimes, including murder, were still allowed to remain on the force and that was kept from the publi

Our officers go to their cell phones when things get so risky.

It's all been added struggle since digital was forced on cities of the US. First, there was some grant to get started. Then they had to replace or modify their equipment to motorola monopoly radios an

Sadly, the 246 cannot monitor P25. You need a digital scanner.

I currently monitor P25 phase1 with my BCD396xlt (trunk tracker IV). It works fine except when a talkgroup is encriypted. Richmond and Berkeley, Ca have a couple of encrypted talkgroups. Oakland does