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Finkstinger wrote:
If you're still looking for Los Angeles try this (it's a Windows media
file): mms://68.171.134.111:8080

Thanks!! It works.

I think the last time I ever listened to LAPD live was
probably on 1730 KHZ from Arkansas in the Fall of 1966.

As most on this list are probably aware, the frequencies just
above the AM broadcast band were used for public safety between around
1930 and even in to the mid sixties. By the sixties, when I was old
enough to appreciate what I was hearing, the vast majority of public
safety radio traffic was in either the VHF low band of 30-50 MHZ or
the VHF high band of 150-174 MHZ. I remember hearing that a few
cities like Chicago were even going in to the 450 MHZ ranges.

If you had a good short wave receiver around central Oklahoma
or Arkansas at night, you mostly heard navigational beacons from the
coasts between 1600 KHZ and the top of the 160-meter amateur band.
Sometimes, however, one could still hear an echo of the not so ancient
past.

My most vivid memory of such an experience was New Year's Eve
in 1965. My family lived in North Central Oklahoma at the time and I
was tuning just above the AM broadcast band that evening and heard a
clear signal consisting of several mostly female and a few male voices
speaking in rapid cadence. Having watched "Dragnet," at times, I
thought this might be Los Angeles police calls. I think I heard
street names and so forth that made it pretty certain that this must
be LA.

I kept listening as the signal was unusually good that evening
and finally heard a male voice give the call letters followed by
"Los Angeles Police Department, ten-fifteen P.M." One can't get any
more positive of an ID than that.

In Oklahoma, it was now 15 minutes in to 1966. Later that
year, we would move to Hot Springs, Arkansas and I do vaguely remember
hearing Los Angeles a few more times on 1730, but I also kind of
remember listening for a period of time and not hearing them any more
that Fall and Winter so they must have discontinued the AM transmitter
in the Fall of 1966.

I must say as I sit here listening to the mix of conventional
analog and obviously digital transmissions that things have certainly
changed in 39 years.:-).

Again, many thanks.
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Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
Information Technology Division Network Operations Group