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[EZ CHOPPER]

I just picked this up my uncle had one when I was a kid. Its not picking up I'm sure the crystals need to be changed not sure any info would be great.

Hey Ed...

Check here... http://www.radiopics.com/Scan ... earcat.htm

Good Luck

Bombero

[MunShine3X07]

I just picked this up my uncle had one when I was a kid. Its not picking up I'm sure the crystals need to be changed not sure any info would be great.

Ha, My dad and uncle had the exact same scanner. Since they lived in different areas, they had different crystals. I remember staring at those chasing lights anticipating which number it would stop on and what exciting things would be said. lol

Good luck getting it going.

[EZ CHOPPER]

how do I know what crystals to buy for it do they have to be the ones for my area or does it mater

[jon6667]

most all scanner calls are gone digital. chances are you wont hear anything.

[MDYoungblood]

You will probably be able to receive some non essential utility frequencies but police and fire are like said before, "Digital", download a scanner app on your smartphone to find the frequencies but getting crystals will be a problem. Looks good so it would make a nice paperweight.

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Greg

[EZ CHOPPER]

Well that sucks I wonder if I could make it scan just for CB channels



-- Thursday, 05 January 2017, 16:50 PM --

so is it possible to make it scan for just CB channels

[DevilDog66]

Well that sucks I wonder if I could make it scan just for CB channels



-- Thursday, 05 January 2017, 16:50 PM --

so is it possible to make it scan for just CB channels

I don't see why not. I think it would just be a simple matter of finding which CB frequency crystals you want to replace the ones in the scanner.

[Grinder74]

Always fun when there was a full moon back in the day.

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[MDYoungblood]

Well that sucks I wonder if I could make it scan just for CB channels



-- Thursday, 05 January 2017, 16:50 PM --

so is it possible to make it scan for just CB channels

I don't see why not. I think it would just be a simple matter of finding which CB frequency crystals you want to replace the ones in the scanner.

It probably won't, most old crystal scanners wouldn't go below 50mhz and only used FM receivers.

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Greg

[dirtyjob]

many police and fire have gone away from anolog into the apco25 digital, BUT their are still many that still do use analog, i happen to have a bcIV and listen to a big city police near me. You need to find your area http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/ and see if their is anything still transmiting using the old anolog system, anything analog will have a pl tone listed. You would be surprised as to how many old systems are still in use.

-- Sunday, 22 January 2017, 19:53 PM --

your bcIII frequency specs are as follows:

low band 30-50 mhz

high band or vhf 146 -174 mhz <------------- within this range you can hear the 2 meter ham band easily as well as public service, my fire department is within this range and still analog

uhf 450 - 470 mhz <------------------------- police and fire, my police department is still hear.

it can only handle crystals in those ranges

the owners manual can be loaded @ http://radiopics.com/1.%20Man ... anual).pdf