Welcome and we hope you are enjoying our site. If you are
reading this now then that means that you are interested in
learning who we are. We'll, for starters, the "us," "we," and "our" is actually a "me", "myself",
and "I". My name is Ruben Flores and I am the one
man operation behind this contribution to the radio scanning
community.
I've been scanning the airwaves in Southern California for
over twenty-four years now. I began my scanning hobby in the summer of 1982,
back when I was
teenager.
I was at a park with some friends when an acquaintance of one of
my friend’s showed up with a handheld crystal-controlled
scanner. This was my first time ever seeing a scanner and it
immediately grabbed my attention, especially when he told me that
you could listen to police and fire calls. He told me he had
bought it at a yard sale. Since I did not know where to get one at
that time, I
simply put the thought of owning one aside.
Months later while at my best friend’s house, I learned her
brother had recently purchased one. Soon after, we found ourselves
spending countless nights on listening to all the action going on
in our neighborhood. From then on my interest in scanning grew. A
year later in
early 1983 while on vacation, my mom bought me my first scanner
at a yard sale, an old crystal-controlled base scanner. Later that
year I found out that Radio Shack stocked and sold scanners and begged my dad for the cash and was able to finally buy a fully programmable
scanner.
Twenty-six years later here I am running this site to provide a
place where scanner enthusiast could go and find all kind of cool and
useful information and resources on scanning. I wrote a scanning
guide to help those that know little or nothing about
scanners and radio scanning in general. I hope you enjoy all this
site has to offer.
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