Ok folks, for all you that have Facebook profiles, I just created a Facebook Group for RadioReference.com Members:

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Join up and welcome to the party! :cool:

The radio hobby has suffered another loss this week with the passing of Gill Lineberry N4VOX. Gill was a very active Amateur and served in a
public safety career track that spanned decades. Gill was one of the original CFLGer's and a good friend to many of us.

I had arguments with Gill. But my prayers and best wishes go to his Family

Paul Optiz sent out a newsletter on behalf of Uniden with information of upcoming FREE firmware updates for the Uniden Scanner Product Line.

Highlights include:

* Hidden Menu Items now not hidden
* Close Call DND
* Extended Tone out Delay
* RSSI Reporting Improvements
* EDACS ESK Support
* P25 Auth Threshold Detection
* New Big Product Announcement on 9/29/2008

Firmware Release dates look like:

BCD396T/BCD996T 9/30/2008
BC246T/BCT15 11/20/2008
BCT8/BC898T 12/31/2008
BC296D/BC796D/BR330T 1/31/2009

A post on Larry Van Horn's Blog brings us the sad news of Tom Kneitel's death. Tom was the famous author of The "Top Secret" Registry of U.S. Government Radio Frequencies, which was the bible of federal monitoring.

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This is good timing with people complaining about Motorola leaving out 450MHz on the new APX-7000. This new Harris hand held covers 136-194, 380-520 and 762-870MHz, conventional/trunked, P25 and more. See the XG-100 at:
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Umm, I love the smell of a new Harris radio.
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