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On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:36:11 -0400, "D. Brown" wrote:

I subscribed to Spectrum online last Tues and have not received an ID or
password yet. I've sent them a couple of emails, no reply so far and I
even
called their support number, all I get is voice mail. At least they
haven't
charged my credit card yet.

Does anyone know what the deal is? I've always heard good things about
them,
I'm not too impressed thus far.


They went down hill after they got their government contract to supply
various
databases to various agencies. Right after they got that the Spectrum CD
was
killed and only the Pro DB remained. Thank fully others have stepped in to
supply a similar product at the same price point for those not needing the
Pro
DB.

Who else offers a freq database?

I already have police call IMO, other than public safety there's not much
else on the CD or in the book that is very interesting.

"D. Brown" wrote in
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wrote in message
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On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:36:11 -0400, "D. Brown"
wrote:

I subscribed to Spectrum online last Tues and have not received an
ID or password yet. I've sent them a couple of emails, no reply so
far and I even
called their support number, all I get is voice mail. At least they
haven't
charged my credit card yet.

Does anyone know what the deal is? I've always heard good things
about them,
I'm not too impressed thus far.


They went down hill after they got their government contract to
supply various
databases to various agencies. Right after they got that the Spectrum
CD was
killed and only the Pro DB remained. Thank fully others have stepped
in to supply a similar product at the same price point for those not
needing the Pro
DB.

Who else offers a freq database?

I already have police call IMO, other than public safety there's not
much else on the CD or in the book that is very interesting.




You can get the complete FCC Licensing Division Master Database from the
folks at http://mysite.verizon.net/moment_1/s...ng/contact.htm
it is a frequency database covering ALL 50 US states plus all US
territories, so everything that has an FCC license is on it.


That Other Guy

You can get the complete FCC Licensing Division Master Database from the
folks at http://XXXX.verizon.net/moment_1/sca...ng/contact.htm
it is a frequency database covering ALL 50 US states plus all US
territories, so everything that has an FCC license is on it.


Way to SPAM for your own website...
Make it sound like a recommendation instead of what it really is... SPAM...

You can get the complete FCC Licensing Division Master Database from the
folks at http://mysite.verizon.net/moment_1/s...ng/contact.htm
it is a frequency database covering ALL 50 US states plus all US
territories, so everything that has an FCC license is on it.


That Other Guy

What type of interface does it have? Can I search by State, County, City, RS
Code etc? Can the information be edited (easily) in an Excel spread-sheet,
then copied and pasted into a radio control program?

I can find all the information I want from the FCC site, just couldn't find
a way to get it organized the way I want it.

What would be the difference if it is just a big file thrown on a CD without
a means to search and organize it?

And $5 to mail a CD?

"D. Brown" wrote in
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You can get the complete FCC Licensing Division Master Database from
the folks at
http://mysite.verizon.net/moment_1/s...ng/contact.htm it is a
frequency database covering ALL 50 US states plus all US territories,
so everything that has an FCC license is on it.


That Other Guy

What type of interface does it have? Can I search by State, County,
City, RS Code etc? Can the information be edited (easily) in an Excel
spread-sheet, then copied and pasted into a radio control program?

I can find all the information I want from the FCC site, just couldn't
find a way to get it organized the way I want it.

What would be the difference if it is just a big file thrown on a CD
without a means to search and organize it?

And $5 to mail a CD?




Yes they add $5.00 to mail a CD because the CD envelopes cost $1.20 and
someone has to put $1.45 worth of postage on it and then take them all to
the post office. so in todays world of $3.50 a gal gas don't you think that
guy should get at least 1gal for doing the jub or do you think everything
should be free to you?? The interface is bDase they recompile it from the
Adode formate .pdf where you can't do a thing to dBase and yes you can cut
and past your heart out. and yes you can search by state, county, city,
call sign RS code name and anything eles you can think of. And if you went
to: http://mysite.verizon.net/moment_1/s...ng/contact.htm and read
what it says you would no all that :-)

--
kla1899

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:25:43 GMT, kla1899 said in
alt.radio.scanner:

Yes they add $5.00 to mail a CD because the CD envelopes cost $1.20

Bull, unless you're buying them from yourself. Mailers cost about a
dime - sleeves cost a couple of cents.

and
someone has to put $1.45 worth of postage

$1.45? A CD in a mailer only weighs barely 2 ounces (actually 1 gram
less). That would be $0.60. The $0.85 is just part of the rip-off
fee.

on it and then take them all to
the post office. so in todays world of $3.50 a gal gas

It was the same price long before gas went up, so that dog won't hunt
either.

The interface is bDase they recompile it from the
Adode formate .pdf where you can't do a thing to dBase and yes you can cut
and past your heart out.

Or just read it into a database. Those of us who do that kind of work
every day know how full of it you are with just that one claim. No
one who knows what he's doing copies and pastes data into a database.

Oh, and who's this mysterious "they" you keep referring to? You have
multiple personalities?

Go post on alt.i'm.a.dummy. Maybe someone there will fall for it.

Al Klein wrote in
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On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:25:43 GMT, kla1899 said in
alt.radio.scanner:

Yes they add $5.00 to mail a CD because the CD envelopes cost $1.20

Bull, unless you're buying them from yourself. Mailers cost about a
dime - sleeves cost a couple of cents.

and
someone has to put $1.45 worth of postage

$1.45? A CD in a mailer only weighs barely 2 ounces (actually 1 gram
less). That would be $0.60. The $0.85 is just part of the rip-off
fee.

on it and then take them all to
the post office. so in todays world of $3.50 a gal gas

It was the same price long before gas went up, so that dog won't hunt
either.

The interface is bDase they recompile it from the
Adode formate .pdf where you can't do a thing to dBase and yes you can
cut and past your heart out.

Or just read it into a database. Those of us who do that kind of work
every day know how full of it you are with just that one claim. No
one who knows what he's doing copies and pastes data into a database.

Oh, and who's this mysterious "they" you keep referring to? You have
multiple personalities?

Go post on alt.i'm.a.dummy. Maybe someone there will fall for it.


has to be at least 1 ****ing ass hole in the group no mater what you say
theirs always one that says something eles, for you moron make the
postage $20.00 just because you think the world owes you and we should
all work for free.

--
kla1899

And if you went
to: sniped the spam link and
read
what it says you would no all that :-)

I did go there and it didn't really say all of that. In fact, reading the
site (misspellings, poor grammar and all) gives me the impression that it's
just a bunch of clueless, slack-jawed goamers, sitting around trying to come
up with something profound.

I'll spend my money on professional products, someone who puts out quality
rather than some hicks trying to pull together some hooch money.

Who else offers a freq database?


You can go straight to the FCC and get the same thing you used to get from
PerCon and much more. PerCon stopped doing their CDs after the FCC put this
site up. There's no need for them if you're just a scanner hobbyist looking
for frequencies.

If you're knowledgeable about databases, you can even download the entire
raw database into your own database and build your own queries to do
anything you want. They even send out daily updates so you can keep your
database synchronized with the FCC.

It's funny to think that back in the 1980s I made the trip to Chicago to
look at the microfiche.

Check out:

http://wireless.fcc.gov/database_info.html

It's all there...

Mike Harpe, N4PLE