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Buzzygirl wrote:
Heh, don't worry. I haven't gone out to buy an adaptor for the ol' girl yet. I'm fairly impressed by the performance of this older scanner. I live in a populous metropolitan area, made up of two fairly large cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) and many smaller cities (grand total of the Twin Towns and their 'burbs is almost 3 million now). Hennepin County (the most populous county in the state, which includes the city of Minneapolis) is using trunked radio, but I've heard nothing terribly interesting coming out of there so far on my Pro-95. The St. Paul Police Department is still using UHF and the local state patrol car-to-base is using VHF. Lots of action between just those two entities. So, having used it for a few nights now, I can say that the Pro-34 works quite well, and picks up everything my Pro-95 and Pro-83 picks up, even with its stock antenna. I dunno... I may keep it, or I may sell it, but probably not on eBay. I don't have a seller's account there, and don't really care to set one up just to sell one item. Jackie ----------- First sorry is two very similar messages show up. Yahoo barfed on my first post attempt. You might consider starting a "bug out bag". If some local event, like a train wreck with a hazmat leak, force you to evacuate your home it is nice to be able to evesdrop on what is happening. I have my old PR034, a Sangen ATS909, a really ancient IC-2AT (Ham HT), and other usefull items, in a water proof bag ready to "deploy". While I have no expectations of a Katrina like event, it never hurts to be prepared. From my personal experience you aren't going to get very much out old scanners/receivers, so for me, it makes more sense to keep them for backups, or for real emergencies. I don't keep batteries in the bag, they are kept in the fridge in an air tight container and changed out every other year. Oh, keep a list of usefull(!!current!!) freqs. Terry |
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