-=> Quoting Carlos Boquin to Joe Nicholson <=-
 CB> Was it harder back then to find the frequencies than it is today?
 It was no problem with a good SW receiver like Halicrafters.
 Even listening on a broadcast AM receiver was easy if you knew
 the receiver's IF frequency and calculated the image frequency.
 CB> But back then, I would imagine that no one ever passed along the
 CB> frequency information to the public, and with very little interest
 CB> no one (or not many people) asked.
 The frequencies were well known in those days, and there were many,
 many armchair listeners.  You probably would be surprised at the
 number of retired seniors who spent their entire day eavesdropping
 on police call in the '30s, '40s and '50s.
 I know a 75 year old widow who bought a VHF scanner as soon as
 they hit the market, to listen to the PD and FD here.  Now she
 has a couple 800Mhz scanners.
 CB>  Or are my assumptions wrong, and was it easier?
 See above.   BTW, a lot of us could listen to the mobile units
 in the 72-76MHz band by turning the TV to channel 4 or 5.
 While in the Naval Reserves, I did a summer "cruise" at the local
 MARS station and discovered pallets and pallets of old LAPD mobile
 units with an AM 2Mhz receiver and a 74MHz FM transmitter.
... 9-1-1......your call is important to us!
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