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.