Even more exciting when things happen in your block, behind your car, or in front of the apartment building (don't leave the apartment without listening to the scanner first, don't want to be shot at). Lots of action on LAPD frequencies back in the day, car thiefs, drug deals, shootings, car chases, helicopters, fires. But the radio just sang for years, contineous use, no airconditioning (in L.A. Many little problems could be fixed with an aftermarket program and there was a circuit "mod" for the scan rate improvement. Used mostly to listen to public service bands as a scanner (although ICOM insisted it wasn't a "scanner", and, in fact, it didn't have the best scanner functions, slow scan rate, small memory size, scan delay bug). Bought it as I had no hf antenna in an apartment but could get along with VHF/UHF indoor antenna. I have had this radio since new, sometime in the late 80's.
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