[BC] End of an Era...

[Alan Kline]

Well, so far the public safety agencies around here are still old-tech,
so our newsroom still has at least one scanner at the assignment editor's
desk.  And I carry a hand-held with me in my lunch/junk bag...

In addition to the police, it's very handy for monitoring operations at the
airport (particularly when they declare an Alert Two and we scramble a 
van), local railroads, and NWS, if one isn't within earshot of the EAS box.

ak

------ At 09:51 AM 6/6/2006 -0400, The Most Honourable Paul Smith W4KNX wrote: -------
>
>What you have today is almost every little govt. agency has a Public
>Information Officer.  They either post to internet sites what is news or fax
>it to you.  Most stations dont have news departments anylonger either.  So
>government has gotten bloated, radio has gotten leaner.  (Would you expect
>anything less?)  I can log on here and look at all the traffic cameras in
>the Tampa area, and look at all the police reports from the various agencies
>in the area.  Also, many agencies use either trunked communication systems,
>or digital, so it's almost impossible to track them via scanner.


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