Thanks for the memories

Thanks for the memories!

The clock has made its way to my final retirement from the scanner field. I have been involved professionally with scanners from the day I published my first scanner frequency directory (Scanner Radio Listings) in 1977 and later on to Fox Scanner Radio Listings, Betty Bearcat and Regency directories, and then moving them to CDs and eventually to on-line. Things have changed a lot since the beginning, including me getting older. Also, interests change as well (at least for me). I even had my hand in publishing a scanner related magazine, National Scanning Report that morphed into National Communications. I even wrote a book, Emergency Radio, scanning the news at it happens. The last few years I have spent time programming scanners for people who found the task to be too difficult. While I still am very much interested in radio, there are other aspects that interest me, including ham radio and radio broadcasting. So, while I will still have my scanner, my time of professionally working with them and being Mister Scanner has come to an end.

I want to thank all the loyal customers we had over the years, but especially my wife, family and the employees who helped me carry out the dream of making what was a hobby into a full time job.

So, while I am no longer "working" scanners I have included a few links below to my current radio project Information Radio, in Kettering, Ohio. If you are a ham radio operator, you might hear me on the bands as KA8PGJ, which is my original and only call that I have kept ever since getting it.

Below are a couple of videos and photos from back in the day and a couple of links to the present day.

Thanks for the memories!

Norm Schrein (Mister Scanner)