A fire broke out at a city fire station in Compton and destroyed $1.1 million in radio and communications equipment that the city bought last year in an ultimately aborted attempt to bring back its municipal police department. The City Council, which had voted in the summer of 2010 to embark on a $19-million venture […]
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Not quite the “War Of The Worlds” broadcast of a Martian invasion in New Jersey, a Verizon “emergency” alert Monday that the company texted to its wireless customers still jangled some nerves and triggered hundreds of calls from concerned residents to local and state offices. The company sent the alert to customers in Middlesex, Monmouth
Whoops… Mistaken Verizon Emergency Alert Scares N.J. Read Post »
Unmanned aircraft from an Air Force base in North Dakota help local police with surveillance, raising questions that trouble privacy advocates. Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. Three men brandishing rifles chased him
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Tim Allen — star of Home Improvement, Toy Story, The Santa Clause and Galaxy Quest, just to name a few — stars in Last Man Standing, an ABC comedy airing at 8 PM (EST) on Tuesday nights. Allen plays Mike Baxter, KA0XTT, a married father of three and the director of marketing at an outdoor
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Officials are investigating why a Los Angeles police helicopter had to make an emergency landing in Woodland Hills on Monday afternoon. The helicopter landed shortly before 2 p.m., touching down at Pierce College. Although police officials didn’t name the exact location, it appears in a photo from KCBS-TV that it landed on the school’s football
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Coast Guard crews are crediting the quick reaction of rescuers and a new communications system with the survival of four boaters whose pleasure craft sunk suddenly off the coast of Catalina Island early Tuesday. The incident began when a faint distress call drifted over the airwaves sometime before midnight Dec. 5, alerting Coast Guard crews
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The Mexican military has recently broken up several secret telecommunications networks that were built and controlled by drug cartels so they could coordinate drug shipments, monitor their rivals and orchestrate attacks on the security forces. A network that was dismantled just last week provided cartel members with cellphone and radio communications across four northeastern states.
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The next meeting of the SCMA will be the annual Christmas Party and will take place on December 14th. Please join us at the usual time and place. We will have some great door prizes to give out for those of you who purchase door prize tickets, including a new Yaesu FT-60 dual band handheld
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SCMA Member Glen Rothstein’s photo has been used in an article in the Canyon News. The article written by Damian Kelly highlights the fact that the new LAFD Station 80 at LAX was awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification from the United States Green Building Council. The article can be found
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Coming in December! Our SCMA President, Rick DiFiore, WA6KFI, is about to publish an all new scanner guide featuring Southern California Federal and Military frequencies. This guide is like nothing else out there and any scanning enthusiast needs to get a copy of this book! No price has been announced yet, but the SCMA will
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